HEARTSTOPPING footage shows the moment two giant whales move in to protect a diver from a bloodthirsty shark. Benoît Girodeau ...

The in-depth story of the USS Indianapolis Disaster. This week is about sharks: In the final days of WWII, the crew of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) faced a harrowing choice: Burn on their sinking ship ...

Scores of US sailors fell victim to the deadliest shark attack ever after their ship, the USS Indianapolis, was sunk by Japanese torpedoes in 1945. Roughly 900 men survived the naval ship sinking ...

On July 26, 1945, the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis landed on Tinian ... saltwater poisoning, shark attack—even homicide, when men began slipping into hallucinatory madness, stabbing and ...

The celebrated USS Indianapolis was nearly blown in half ... Subjected to dehydration, heat, delirium from drinking salt water, and shark attacks, only 316 would make it out of the water alive.

Enamored with the monologue from shark hunter Captain Quint about the demise of the USS Indianapolis, he learned the vessel was responsible for transporting the components for the atomic bomb.

When the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis sank in July 1945, as many as 80 of the sailors’ deaths were blamed on shark attacks as survivors drifted for five days in the “shark-infested waters ...