Story highlights It sank in 12 minutes, too quickly to send a distress signal

Most on board survived the sinking, only to die of exposure and drowning

(CNN) It's been 72 years since the USS Indianapolis went missing after a Japanese submarine torpedoed it in the final days of World War II.

A team of civilian researchers led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen discovered the cruiser's wreckage Friday on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 18,000 feet below the surface. The discovery brings a measure of closure to one of most tragic maritime disasters in US naval history.

"To be able to honor the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role in ending World War II is truly humbling," Allen said.

The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis.

"As Americans, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the crew for their courage, persistence and sacrifice in the face of horrendous circumstances. While our search for the rest of the wreckage will continue, I hope everyone connected to this historic ship will feel some measure of closure at this discovery so long in coming."

The Indianapolis sank in 12 minutes, making it impossible for it to send a distress signal or deploy life-saving equipment. Before the attack, on July 30, 1945, it had just completed a secret mission delivering components of the atomic bomb used in Hiroshima that brought an end to the war in the Pacific, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington.

Read More</s>Civilian researchers say they have located the wreck of the USS Indianapolis, the World War II heavy cruiser that played a critical role in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima before being struck by Japanese torpedoes.

The sinking of the Indianapolis remains the Navy’s single worst loss at sea. The fate of its crew – nearly 900 were killed, many by sharks, and just 316 survived – was one of the Pacific war’s more horrible and fascinating tales.

The expedition crew of Research Vessel Petrel, which is owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, says it located the wreckage of the Indianapolis on the floor of the North Pacific Ocean, more than 18,000 feet (5,500 metres) below the surface, the U.S. Navy said in a news release Saturday.

“To be able to honour the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role in ending World War II is truly humbling,” Allen said in the news release.

The Indianapolis, with 1,196 sailors and Marines on board, was sailing the Philippine Sea between Guam and Leyte Gulf when two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine struck just after midnight on July 30, 1945. It sank in 12 minutes, killing about 300. Survivors were left in the water, most of them with only life jackets.

There was no time to send a distress signal, and four days passed before a bomber on routine patrol happened to spot the survivors in the water. By the time rescuers arrived, a combination of exposure, dehydration, drowning and constant shark attacks had left only one-fourth of the ship’s original number alive.

Over the years numerous books recounted the ship’s disaster and its role in delivering key components of what would become the atomic bomb “Little Boy” to the island of Tinian, the take-off point for the bomber Enola Gay’s mission to Hiroshima in August 1945. Documentaries and movies, most recently USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016) starring Nicolas Cage, have recounted the crew’s horror-filled days at sea. The Indianapolis sinking also was a plot point in the Steven Spielberg blockbuster Jaws (1975), with the fictitious survivor Capt. Quint recounting the terror he felt waiting to be rescued.

The Navy news release issued Saturday said a key to finding the Indianapolis came in 2016 when Richard Hulver, a historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command, determined a new search area. Hulver’s research identified a naval landing craft that had recorded a sighting of the Indianapolis the day before it sank. The research team developed a new search area, although it was still 600 square miles of open ocean.

The Navy said the 13-person expedition team on the R/V Petrel was surveying the Indianapolis site. The team’s work has been compliant with U.S. law regarding a sunken warship as a military grave not to be disturbed, according to the Navy. The wrecked ship remains the property of the Navy and its location is both confidential and restricted, it said.</s>After more than 70 years, the lost wreck of a US Navy cruiser that played a pivotal role in the closing moments of World War II has been found.

The USS Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine on 30 July 1945, just days after delivering components for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima – but its final resting place had remained a mystery, until now.

A team of researchers led by Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen discovered wreckage from the USS Indianapolis resting on the floor of the North Pacific Ocean at a depth of some 5,500 metres (18,000 feet) – bringing to a close an epic search across some 1,500 square kilometres (600 square miles) of open ocean.

"To be able to honour the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role in ending World War II is truly humbling," said Allen.

The USS Indianapolis isn't just a historic sea vessel for its part in delivering uranium and other components for Little Boy – the first atomic bomb used in warfare.

It's also remembered for the tragic circumstances of its sinking, which ultimately saw several hundred perish in what remains the worst naval disaster in US history.

When USS Indianapolis was struck by two torpedoes fired from the Japanese submarine I–58 in June 1945, its fate was sealed quickly.

The cruiser sank in just 12 minutes, which proved too fast for the crew to deploy most of the ship's life-saving equipment. Nor could they call for help, as the attack had left their communications systems destroyed, preventing them from broadcasting a distress signal.

"The first 100 yards of the ship was under," one of the survivors, Edgar Harrell, told The Washington Post.

"We knew the ship was doomed… We knew that our ship was going to leave us, and it's going to take us with us unless we get off."

For many of the 1,196 sailors and marines on board, the rapid destruction meant their end. About 800 of the crew survived the sinking, only to face another deadly challenge: floating alone in the Philippine Sea.

After four to five days in the water, with little food and water, many succumbed to exposure, dehydration, drowning, and shark attacks – until 316 lives were saved when rescuers accidentally spotted the survivors.

"You'd hear guys scream, especially late in the afternoon," one survivor Woody James, who died in 2005, once recalled.

"Seemed like the sharks were the worst late in the afternoon than they were during the day. Everything would be quiet, and then you'd hear somebody scream and you knew a shark had got him."

Of those in the crew that made it through the many ordeals, 22 are still living to this day.

Many researchers have looked for the wreck of the USS Indianapolis since it was lost more than 72 years ago, but the seeds of the current search were planted last year, when US naval historian Richard Hulver came across information of a sighting of the cruiser just hours before it was sunk.

The new lead suggested the wreckage would lie in seas to the west of where many long thought to search for the vessel.

Armed with the new calculations, a 13-person expedition team aboard the Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel set sail to search for the wreckage, equipped with advanced subsea equipment capable of diving to 6,000 metres (almost 20,000 feet).

Using this they found the first signs of wreckage discovered, which you can see in the tweets on this page, and the team says they'll continue looking until the rest of the cruiser is found – and will also be conducting a live video tour of the wreckage in the coming weeks.

For now, though, the news that USS Indianapolis has been located after a lifetime lost at sea, helps to finally close an emotional, dramatic chapter in world history.

"I'm very happy that they found it," said 93-year-old survivor Arthur Leenerman in a statement.</s>Researchers say they have located the wreckage of a World War II-era US warship that played a critical role in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima before being struck by Japanese torpedoes.

The sinking of the USS Indianapolis remains the US Navy’s single worst loss at sea. The fate of its crew – nearly 900 were killed, many by sharks, and just 316 survived – was one of the Pacific war’s more horrible tales.

The expedition crew of Research Vessel Petrel, which is owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, said it located the wreckage of the Indianapolis on the floor of the north Pacific Ocean, more than 5,500 metres below the surface, the US Navy said in a news release on Saturday.

“To be able to honour the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role in ending World War II is truly humbling,” Allen said.

The Indianapolis, with 1,196 sailors and Marines on board, was sailing the Philippine Sea between Guam and Leyte Gulf when two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine struck just after midnight on July 30, 1945. It sank in 12 minutes.

There was no time to send a distress signal, and four days passed before a bomber on routine patrol happened to spot survivors in the water. By the time rescuers arrived, a combination of exposure, dehydration, drowning and constant shark attacks had left only one-fourth of the ship’s original number alive.

Over the years numerous books recounted the ship’s disaster and its role in delivering key components of what would become the atomic bomb “Little Boy” to the island of Tinian, the take-off point for the bomber Enola Gay’s mission to Hiroshima in August 1945.

The Navy statement said a key to finding the Indianapolis came in 2016 when Richard Hulver, a historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command, determined a new search area. Hulver’s research identified a naval landing craft that had recorded a sighting of the Indianapolis the day before it sank. The research team developed a new search area.

The Navy said the 13-person expedition team on the R/V Petrel was surveying the Indianapolis site.</s>For 72 years since the cruiser USS Indianapolis sank after being struck by Japanese torpedoes in the waning days of World War II, her exact resting place had been a mystery.

But a team of researchers led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen now says they have positively identified the wreckage, 18,000 feet below the surface in the Philippine Sea.

The sinking of the Indianapolis — on its return from a secret mission to deliver components for the atomic bomb that would be dropped days later on the Japanese city of Hiroshima — became the single-largest loss of life in the history of the U.S. Navy.

After delivering its cargo to the tiny island of Tinian, north of Guam, the ship was on its way to the Philippines when it was hit by two torpedoes from the Imperial Japanese submarine I-58 on July 30, 1945.

Indianapolis sank in just 12 minutes, with 300 of her crew going down with the ship. With few lifeboats, many of the remaining 900 faced death by exposure or shark attack until they were spotted three days later by a U.S. Navy patrol plane. By the time they were reached by rescuers, only 317 of the crew of 1,196 aboard were still alive.

"To be able to honor the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role during World War II is truly humbling," Allen said on his website. "As Americans, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the crew for their courage, persistence and sacrifice in the face of horrendous circumstances. While our search for the rest of the wreckage will continue, I hope everyone connected to this historic ship will feel some measure of closure at this discovery so long in coming."

The ship's destruction and survivors' attack by sharks inspired a famous scene from the movie Jaws, in which Captain Quint (played by Robert Shaw), recounts the events.

In a court martial that became controversial years later, the captain of the Indianapolis, Charles B. McVay III, was found guilty of not running a "zig-zag" course to evade Japanese submarines. He was exonerated only in 2001, 33 years after his 1968 suicide by gunshot.

As The New York Times wrote in 2001:



"Captain McVay's defenders note that he had been given discretion — not ordered — to steer a zigzag course and had done so for a time, and that he had been advised there was little threat of enemy submarines.

 Some historians, citing documents declassified years later, have attributed the slowness of the rescue to the secrecy surrounding the atomic bomb mission. Some have suggested, too, that senior Navy officers knew there might have been a Japanese submarine in the area but did not warn the cruiser out of fear of disclosing that the Navy had broken Japan's naval codes."



The Indianapolis itself remains the property of the U.S. Navy and its exact location will remain a secret, Allen says.

Capt. William J. Toti, a spokesman for the 22 survivors of the Indianapolis who are still alive, said on Allen's website that those men "have longed for the day when their ship would be found, solving their final mystery."

"They all know this is now a war memorial," he said.</s>Naval researchers announced Saturday that they have found the wreckage of the lost World War II cruiser USS Indianapolis on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 72 years after the vessel sank in minutes after it was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine.

The ship was found almost 3 1/2 miles below the surface of the Philippine Sea, said a tweet from Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen, who led a team of civilian researchers that made the discovery.

Historians and architects from the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, District of Columbia, had joined forces with Allen last year to revisit the tragedy.

The ship sank in 15 minutes on July 30, 1945, in the war's final days, and it took the Navy four days to realize that the vessel was missing.

About 800 of the crew's 1,200 sailors and Marines made it off the cruiser before it sank. But almost 600 of them died over the next four to five days from exposure, dehydration, drowning and shark attacks. Nineteen crew members are alive today, the Navy command said in a news release.

The Indianapolis had just completed a top secret mission to deliver components of the atomic bomb "Little Boy" to the island of Tinian. The bomb was later dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

In a statement on its website, the command call the shipwreck a "significant discovery," considering the depth of the water.

"While our search for the rest of the wreckage will continue, I hope everyone connected to this historic ship will feel some measure of closure at this discovery so long in coming," Allen said in a statement. His research vessel, Petrel, has state-of-the-art subsea equipment that can descend to depths like those at which the ship was found.

The cruiser's captain, Charles Butler McVay III, was among those who survived, but he was eventually court-martialed and convicted of losing control of the vessel. About 350 Navy ships were lost in combat during the war, but he was the only captain to be court-martialed. Years later, under pressure from survivors to clear his name, McVay was posthumously exonerated by Congress and President Bill Clinton.

The shipwreck's location had eluded researchers for decades.

The coordinates keyed out in an S.O.S. signal were forgotten by surviving radio operators and were not received by Navy ships or shore stations, the Navy command said. The ship's mission records and logs were lost in the wreck.

Researchers got a break last year, however, when Richard Hulver, a historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command, identified a naval landing craft that had recorded a sighting of the Indianapolis hours before it was sunk. The position was west of where it was presumed to be lying. The team was able to develop a new estimated position, although it still covered 600 square miles of open ocean.

The ship is an official war grave, which means it is protected by law from disturbances. Naval archaeologists will prepare to tour the site and see what data they can retrieve. No recovery efforts are planned.

Hulver and Robert Neyland, the command's underwater archaeology branch head, wrote on the website that "there remains a lot we can learn."

"From the sinking to the battle damage and site formation processes, we hope to gain a better understanding about the wreck site and how we can better protect USS Indianapolis to honor the service of the ship and crew."</s>Waterbury’s Lt. Thomas Michael Conway, a Catholic priest, spent his final hours ministering to the crew of the USS Indianapolis, which sunk in the shark-filled waters of the Pacific in the waning days of World War II.

Saturday afternoon, the U.S. Navy confirmed that researchers had discovered their watery grave 72 years after the ship, and its chaplain, earned a tragic chapter in Naval history.

The sinking of the Indianapolis remains the Navy’s single worst loss at sea. The fate of its crew was one of the Pacific war’s more horrible and fascinating tales.

The expedition crew of Research Vessel Petrel, which is owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, says it located the wreckage of the Indianapolis on the floor of the North Pacific Ocean, more than 18,000 feet (5,500 meters) below the surface, the U.S. Navy said in a news release Saturday.

In his first tweet about the discovery, Allen included a photo that shows the ship’s identifying “35” painted on its hull. “1st confirmation,” he said in the tweet. Another photo shows “USS Indianapolis” on a piece of metal on the sea floor.

The ship was lost July 30, 1945. It had delivered components of the “Little Boy” atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima and was sailing the Philippine Sea between Guam and Leyte Gulf when two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine struck just after midnight. It sank in 12 minutes.

There was no time to send a distress signal.

Only 316 of 1,196 men survived both the sinking and four days in the water. Father Conway swam from man to man, giving last rites, hearing confessions, offering hope, even as the men disappeared under the waves one by one, victims of exposure, dehydration or sharks.

A bomber on routine patrol happened to spot the survivors in the water.

In 2015, the 70th anniversary of the sinking, the Waterbury Veterans Memorial Committee unveiled a memorial statue. The committee spent $35,000 on the piece, which shows Conway in the water.

William J. Pape II, editor of the Republican-American, is Conway’s cousin, and accepted medals for him at the ceremony.

Over the years numerous books recounted the ship’s disaster and its role in delivering key components of what would become the atomic bomb “Little Boy” to the island of Tinian, the take-off point for the bomber Enola Gay’s mission to Hiroshima in August 1945. Documentaries and movies, most recently “USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage” (2016) starring Nicolas Cage, have recounted the crew’s horror-filled days at sea. The Indianapolis sinking also was a plot point in the Steven Spielberg blockbuster “Jaws” (1975), with the fictitious survivor Capt. Quint recounting the terror he felt waiting to be rescued.

The Navy news release issued Saturday said a key to finding the Indianapolis came in 2016 when Richard Hulver, a historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command, determined a new search area. Hulver’s research identified a naval landing craft that had recorded a sighting of the Indianapolis the day before it sank. The research team developed a new search area, although it was still 600 square miles of open ocean.

The researchers are following U.S. law which considers the ship a war grave which is not to be disturbed, the Navy said. The USS Indianapolis remains property of the Navy, which is keeping its exact location confidential and restricted.</s>The co-founder of Microsoft Paul G. Allen announced that his expedition crew has discovered the wreckage of World War II era ship USS Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea.

The Indianapolis was found 5,500 meters below the North Pacific Ocean's surface, the expedition team said. Allen's expedition team used T/V Petrel, a 250-foot research and exploration vessel, and advanced underwater equipment capable of exploring to 6,000 meter (3.5 miles) deep.

The cruiser was en route from Guam to Leyte with over a thousand sailors and Marines on board when it was torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-58 on July 30, 1945, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command.

Only 317 of those aboard the ship survived.

"To be able to honor the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role during World War II is truly humbling," Allen said.

The ship had just completed a secret mission that directly contributed to the end of World War II before it sank, according the the NHHC.</s>For decades survivors of the USS Indianapolis, sunk by Japanese torpedoes at the end of World War Two, believed the remains of the heavy cruiser and their ship mates would never be found.

But as news emerged that an underwater expedition had discovered the wreck 18,000 feet below the surface of the North Pacific Ocean, they described a mix of emotions as they remembered the hundreds of sailors and marines who died in one of America’s worst naval disasters.

Arthur Leenerman, a 93-year-old survivor, said her discovery had been a long time coming.</s>It was a sweltering July night, about 110 degrees, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

The USS Indianapolis had just completed a top-secret mission to deliver the contents of an atomic bomb to Tinian, one of the Northern Mariana Islands. That bomb, called "Little Boy," would later be dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

That night, the ship was headed west to the Leyte Gulf in the Philippines, where she was to join the USS Idaho to prepare to invade Japan. The crew had been traveling 32 knots and had slowed down to 17, Cpl. Edgar Harrell heard his captain say on the speaker. It was about midnight, the end of Harrell's watch duty. The 20-year-old Marine from Kentucky went below deck, grabbed his blanket and dozed off.

What he and the others on the ship did not know was that they were being watched. Down below, the Japanese submarine I-58 was about to fire six torpedoes.

Two struck the ship. The first one hit just a few minutes after Harrell fell asleep. The second hit the middle of the ship, near the fuel tank and a powder magazine, Harrell said.

He could hear and feel water flooding below deck. It was mostly dark. The explosion knocked the power out, and the only source of light was the fire. He had no idea what was going on, so he made his way to his commanding officer to get his orders.

"The first 100 yards of the ship was under," Harrell said. "We knew the ship was doomed. ... We knew that our ship was going to leave us, and it's going to take us with us unless we get off."

Then he heard his captain's voice, echoing from a short distance: "Abandon ship! Abandon ship! Abandon ship! Abandon ship!"

Harrell made his way to the high side of the ship, grabbed hold of a steel cable, and "looked out into eternity."

The 610-foot World War II cruiser was divided in pieces. It sank in just 15 minutes, leaving a layer of black oil floating on the surface.

About 800 of the nearly 1,200 crew members made it off the ship before it sank July 30, 1945. The Navy did not know what had happened, so help did not come. For four days, the men, some of whom had life jackets while others did not, floated aimlessly and helplessly in shark-infested waters. Many died of dehydration, starvation and shark attacks. Only 317 were alive by the time a pilot on patrol spotted them by accident.

Harrell, who turns 93 in October, is one of a handful who lived long enough to hear that a team of researchers led by Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen had found the Indianapolis wreckage, almost 3½ miles below the surface of the Philippine Sea. The discovery was announced Saturday, 72 years after the ship sank.

"It brings closure to the story," Harrell said. "But the experience that we survived, the trauma that we felt, that still exists."

Harrell, who had written a book about his harrowing tale of survival, has been traveling the country retelling his story, often with vividly descriptive details.

"I can still see and feel ... the trauma of swimming those 4½ days," he said. "I can still remember today as if it were just yesterday."

Harrell said he was among about 80 crew members who were near each other after the ship went under. The rest were scattered elsewhere. He remembers seeing several shark fins surround them. He has not forgotten what it was like to see a fellow crew member one day, and to find that same person's body another day, bobbing in the water, nearly unrecognizable.

Thirsty, dehydrated and desperate, some in that group drank salt water. Many hallucinated and drifted off. Sometimes, out of nowhere, Harrell would hear bloodcurdling screams.

"You look, the kapok [life]⅜jacket goes under," Harrell said.

A bloodied body, or what's left of it, surfaced later.

That happened over and over.

The life jackets didn't have enough buoyancy to keep the men afloat, Harrell said, so they had to keep swimming.

By the third day, when only 17 from Harrell's group were left, they spotted a small raft. He and a few others decided to use it to try to swim close enough to the Philippines, where they hoped someone would see them. Later that afternoon, Harrell spotted a crate. He swam to it, hoping it had some water and food. He was so dehydrated that his tongue had swollen. Inside the crate were rotten potatoes. He grabbed some, peeling off the rotten parts with his hands and teeth. It was the only food he and the others had.

About 11 a.m. on the fourth day, Lt. Wilbur Gwinn was flying his bomber aircraft on routine patrol when he looked down and spotted something. He dropped closer to investigate and saw men aimlessly floating in the water. He couldn't land, so he called for assistance. "Many men in the water," he radioed to his base.

Another pilot, Lt. Adrian Marks, was dispatched to help. On the way, he flew over the destroyer USS Cecil Doyle and alerted the ship's captain of the rescue mission. The captain shifted course and headed toward where the crew members were found.

Marks arrived hours ahead of the Cecil Doyle and rescued 56 men. Harrell said he was one of them. It was dark by the time the Cecil Doyle arrived to pull the rest of the men out of the water.

"Most everyone was pretty much in my condition. You couldn't stand up. Even difficult to sit up. You were exhausted, probably lost 20 to 25 pounds," Harrell said.

He was flown to a hospital in Guam. He was still there when the "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. He made it back to the United States that October, but a perforated appendix kept him hospitalized for several more weeks in San Diego. Doctors gave Harrell 11.8 million units of penicillin, he said.

"I became a pin cushion. They didn't think it was going to work. But I survived that," he said.

By Jan. 6, 1946, he was sent to a Marine base in Chicago, where he was discharged from duty.

For years, the crew members did not know who was responsible for the sinking of the Indianapolis and the loss of countless lives. But the blame was placed on the crew's beloved captain, Charles Butler McVay III, who was also among the survivors. McVay was court-martialed after the war and convicted of failing to steer the ship to avoid the torpedoes. Navy Secretary James Forrestal lifted McVay's sentence in 1946, citing his bravery, but the conviction remained in his record. He retired three years later.

"It's not justifiable to put the blame on Capt. McVay," Harrell said. "They just broke him in more ways than one."

Harrell said he saw McVay at the survivors' first reunion in 1960 in Indianapolis, the city for which the warship was named. He had written his captain a letter, inviting him to join. The local paper took a picture of him and McVay shaking hands at the reunion. Harrell still has that picture and the letter from McVay when he wrote back.

But eight years later, in 1968, McVay shot himself with his service weapon, not living long enough to see evidence of his innocence become public.

By the early 1990s, previously classified information revealed that U.S. intelligence was aware that two Japanese submarines, including the one that fired the torpedoes, were in the path of the Indianapolis. McVay and his crew were sent out into the ocean without being informed that danger was ahead.

Years later, under pressure from survivors to clear his name, McVay was posthumously exonerated by Congress and President Bill Clinton.

"Just to have him exonerated meant something, but it didn't do him any good," Harrell said. "It certainly did us good."

Harrell does not know how he managed to stay alive. For years, he couldn't talk about it, until his son convinced him to write a book. It's called "Out of the Depths."

Nineteen survivors, including Harrell, are alive today. They still get together every year.
The wreckage of the USS Indianapolis heavy cruiser, torpedoed by the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58 and sunk in 1945 after delivering parts for the Little Boy atomic weapon, is discovered on the floor of the North Pacific Ocean. Only 317 of the U.S. Sailors/Marines who survived the sinking were finally rescued after 4–5 days in shark-infested waters.