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00:08history is full of killer stories people places and events so lethal so downright shocking that
00:17we just can't forget them tonight a mission to find the northwest passage meets with a disaster
00:26the franklin expedition ends up spending one year and seven months trapped in the ice the
00:33temperatures go as low as negative 54 degrees fahrenheit a quest for riches turns into a fight
00:41for survival the spaniards are met with burning arrows and ambushes leading to even more casualties
00:49a campaign to crush evil costs thousands of lives on data there's nothing between the allied soldiers
00:59and the weapons of the german defenders except pure terror these emissions so dangerous
01:08they can only be among history's deadliest
01:18the call to go west created a world of danger for american pioneers one group
01:25the donna party will face conditions that go down in history
01:33on april 14th 1846 three families set out from springfield illinois for california
01:40in search of a better life the leaders of the party are the donner family george and jacob
01:46their wives and children collectively there's about 87 people and 20 wagons the donners plan to follow
01:53the famous oregon trail to california the route is roughly 2200 miles and it begins in independence
02:00missouri and ends in northern california it's a four to six month trip the only hope of making it
02:08is to stay on the trail and stay on schedule in terms of departure the sweet spot is mid april
02:15but
02:15they don't get to independence missouri until may 12th so they're already a month behind schedule
02:22at fort laramie the members of the wagon train are given a handbill advertising a shortcut
02:29the shortcut is the brainchild of a man named lansford hastings he claims it will take 300 miles
02:37off the journey that's a whole month the donner party is skeptical but hastings says that he will
02:43be their guide himself instead of traveling through idaho the party travels through utah and then you come
02:51up against the soaring sierra nevada mountains before you crest those and make the final run into california
02:58on july 20th the donner party starts along the shortcut but when they arrive at fort bridger to meet
03:05hastings he's already departed with another group of pioneers in his place a simple list of vague
03:13directions the hastings route has been completed on horseback before but the donner party has 23 wagons
03:20and many times the trees simply are not wide enough to allow passage so they have to get out and
03:26they
03:26have to chop these trees down as they climb into the sierra nevadas just a few hundred miles from the
03:32destination a severe blizzard hits overnight the pass is buried under 20 foot high snow drifts they
03:42quickly build these rough cabins no windows no doors leaky roofs frozen ground for floors they run out
03:48of food they resort to eating their oxen and then their horses and when they run out they actually take
03:54the tanned hides of oxen off of their supplies and boil them into some kind of gooey paste
04:02they know they'll starve to death if they stay in this mountain pass
04:08on december 16th they send 15 of their strongest members to get help
04:14even on foot within three days this party of the strongest members is lost snow blind on the verge of
04:22collapse the weather takes out three people and they make the decision to strip the flesh
04:29off the bones and eat it so they can live another day
04:3433 days later seven of the original 15 walk out of the mountains and are able to find help
04:43the first rescue mission gets through the pass on february 18th many of the donna party are now
04:48too weak to travel so they are left behind it takes four trips to get all of the remaining survivors
04:54out of the pass at the home camp rescuers also find evidence of cannibalism rescuers and survivors
05:04speak of these nightmare tales of cannibalism that occurred back in camp dead friends and family eaten
05:12so that mostly young children could stay alive jacob and george donner and their wives do not survive the
05:20journey at the beginning there were 87 people only 48 make it to california alive their expedition becomes
05:30the most infamous tale of death and horror during western expansion
05:37while the donna party fights for their lives another expedition 2 000 miles to the north is also in
05:45trouble this group thinks they're ready for everything turns out they're wrong
05:55the hms arabis and hms terror embarked on a mission to make it through the arctic and the northwest passage
06:07so the most important trade route at the time is trying to get between europe and asia and the holy
06:13grail is to try and find a path through the north the expedition's leader sir john franklin has held
06:21two previous arctic missions during his first expedition in 1819 he and his men resorted to
06:27eating shoe leather to keep from starving for this expedition he decides to bring three years worth of
06:33supplies 24 tons of meat 35 tons of flour 200 gallons of liquor and thousands of tins of preserved food
06:41they're not taking any chances
06:47on july 12th franklin sets out from greenland to carve a 2 000 mile path through the arctic franklin and
06:56his
06:56crew are spotted once more on july 26th by two whaling ships after this the franklin expedition vanishes
07:09two years later franklin's wife asks the british government if we can please go
07:16search for where these ships are in 1848 the admiralty starts sending out search parties
07:24but it's not until 1859 that franklin's wife and the world learned the expedition's fate
07:32while searching king william island rescue missions find two letters stacked under some rocks that are
07:41written by members of franklin's crew the letters combined with stories from the local inuit allow
07:49rescuers to piece together what happened after crossing baffin bay in 1845 the 129 men of the arabis
07:59in terror spend the winter on beachy island three sailors die and are buried on the island they were
08:05the first deaths of the expedition in the spring of 1846 franklin's ships sail south down peel sound
08:13towards king william island disaster strikes both ships are locked in ice the temperatures go as low as
08:21negative 54 degrees fahrenheit at night over the next year 21 crewmen die including sir john franklin he
08:30dies of pneumonia on june 11th
08:34on april 22nd 1848 after spending one year and seven months trapped in the ice the remaining crew abandons
08:45their ships the plan for the survivors is to trek over the frozen island cross the sea ice and
08:52eventually make it to the mainland these 105 men use small boats as sleds to push along and bring their
09:03supplies with them but it's a long journey 250 miles 105 men die in the process
09:12in the 180 years after the franklin expedition vanished only 16 bodies are ever found most of
09:19them stuck in the ice in 1997 when scientists examine and photograph the crew's remarkably intact bodies
09:28they make a gruesome discovery they've noticed there were cut marks on the bones and it seems to
09:36indicate the crew resorted to cannibalism when the wrecks of the arabus and terror were discovered in 2014
09:43and 2016 it really gave us a window into what happened during this expedition the conditions and
09:50hardships that these men endure are almost beyond imagination making the franklin expedition the deadliest
09:57polar expedition in history in 1944 the allies must land a massive army to attack nazi troops in france it
10:14will be one of the largest amphibious landings ever it will also be one of the deadliest
10:23it's june 1944 and the allied invasion of german held mainland europe is impending the allied plan
10:34is to land upwards of 100 000 troops in an area of northern france known as normandy not including an
10:43advance attack of thousands and thousands of paratroopers and a hundred thousand sailors in the
10:51largest fleet the world has ever assembled finally on june 6 1944 after weather delays and tense strategy
11:01sessions general dwight d eisenhower gives the green light to operation overlord the invasion of normandy
11:10doesn't actually start with storming the beach in fact it starts at midnight on june 6th with the
11:18deployment of 13 000 paratroopers german soldiers patrolling the fields and towns around normandy begin
11:28to spot parachutes in the nighttime sky and they open fire even as the paratroopers are dropping out of the
11:36sky they're being killed mid-air by german snipers and anti-aircraft guns eventually the airborne troops are
11:45able to link up and achieve crucial mission objectives what they will eventually capture are critical
11:53bridges they'll capture critical intersections by capturing these objectives the airborne forces will
11:59pave the way for the seaborne echelon to establish a beachhead and then move into the interior the allied
12:05beach landings begin at 6 30 a.m the challenges of the d-day invasion are immense you have to
12:13contend with
12:13the weather with the waves there are soldiers who drown as they come ashore the germans are prepared
12:19obstacles to prevent landing craft keeping ships at bay with sea mines zeroed in machine guns barbed wire
12:27land mines this is one killing zone after another the invasion targets a 50-mile stretch of coast
12:37troops land at five beachheads codenamed sword juno gold omaha and utah fighting at omaha beach is extremely fierce
12:49the first five seconds after the higgins bow drops its ramp are the deadliest there's nothing between
12:57their bodies and the weapons of the german defenders except air and pure terror nearly as deadly is the
13:06enemy rush across the beach through the triangulated mortars and artillery fire the 116th infantry
13:14regiment's company a loses two-thirds of its men within the first 15 minutes of fighting throughout the
13:22morning wave upon wave of soldiers are starting to make their way inland they're starting to outmaneuver the
13:30german emplacements eventually by the mid-afternoon the paratroopers begin to link up with the beach now
13:38we have a clear pathway inland the atlantic wall is broken and the allies win the day at a terrible
13:47cost
13:47at the end of the first day of the d-day invasion 4 400 allied soldiers are killed including 2
13:54500 americans
13:55the german casualties are estimated to be in the 4 000 to 5 000 range there is a reason why
14:02d-day is
14:02called the day of days why there are so many works of both fiction and non-fiction the longest day
14:09saving
14:09private ryan band of brothers because all of these men knew that they had to take the fight to nazi
14:16germany
14:17and the only way to get back home was through berlin this is a fast massive and furiously fought battle
14:27that
14:27cost thousands of lives decades before d-day's beaches ran red the panama canal changed global shipping
14:39forever by connecting two oceans but the long deadly mission to build it cost much more than money
14:49for centuries explorers have searched for a shorter route to travel between the atlantic and the pacific
14:55oceans as early as 1513 spanish explorers see the potential of building a canal through panama there's
15:02an area that's just about 50 miles wide narrow enough that the caribbean sea and the pacific could be
15:08connected in 1881 the french decide that technology has advanced enough to make that dream real
15:18the team breaks ground on february 1st 1881 and almost immediately runs into a huge problem
15:26the rain they encounter 105 inches of rain a year this causes floods and landslides in what's already
15:34a treacherous work site it's estimated that close to a thousand workers die from mudslides the most
15:42dangerous enemy isn't the millions of tons of rock and earth that need to be carved out it's the tiny
15:50mosquito that breeds in the puddles all over the dig sites more than 200 people are dying every month that
15:59the french are digging through this jungle and most of them die from malaria and yellow fever and they've
16:06got no idea that it's the mosquitoes after nine years of work on the canal the french lose 20 000
16:13men and 278 million dollars which is about 10 billion in today's money and they're nowhere close to
16:21finishing they cut their losses and shut down the project despite the french failure president teddy
16:27roosevelt is eager to take over the mission new construction by american teams begins in may of 1904
16:37this time accompanied by doctors in the early 1900s doctors learned that yellow fever and malaria
16:43are spread by mosquitoes which fill the air in the panamanian jungle a u.s army doctor named william
16:51crawford gorgas is a survivor of yellow fever himself and as a result has lifetime immunity gorgas comes
16:58up with a plan he deploys 4 000 men to fumigate it has them spray a mixture of kerosene and
17:05oil into these
17:06ponds and stagnant pools where the mosquitoes breed and lay their eggs deaths caused by disease quickly
17:13diminish but the work itself remains incredibly dangerous carving mountains and rainforest down to
17:22sea level is expensive and dangerous so the u.s approach is to raise the ships up so they can
17:27cross
17:28the land to do this the americans will build a canal outfitted with a series of locks the most dangerous
17:34part of the canal zone is an eight mile stretch through the mountains that's called kalabra cut the
17:39workers name it hell's gorge to clear that eight mile stretch they use 60 million pounds of dynamite
17:51to blast a hundred million cubic yards of earth and rock december 12 1908 a 25 ton dynamite charge
18:03goes off prematurely killing 26 men and wounding 49 others in the 10 years it takes the u.s to
18:12build
18:13the canal more than 5 000 workers die and hundreds of thousands are injured on august 15 1914 the american
18:20ship ss ancon makes the first transit across and the panama canal is officially opened the mission is
18:28complete at a sky high cost between the french and the american efforts the construction of the panama canal
18:35costs about 25 000 lives about 500 lives for every single mile of the canal
18:49the search for gold in a new world often ended in tragedy but one spanish mission that starts
18:56in 1527 ends up killing hundreds of men in the 1520s king charles v of spain should be one of
19:08the
19:08richest monarchs in europe cortez has plundered the aztec empire in the new world and sent quite a bit
19:15of gold back to spain but somehow it's never enough he wants more gold needs more gold and once again
19:23he
19:23looks to the new world to get it in 1526 the king grants his ship's captain a royal license to
19:33claim
19:33the gulf coast for the spanish crown the royal license authorizes panfilo de navalles to explore conquer
19:42and settle all the lands between the rio de las palmas near present-day tampico mexico and the cape of
19:49florida he needs to set up a few colonies and start bases through which we can explore north america
19:57narvez sets out on june 17 1527 with a formidable group 600 strong including soldiers and forced labor
20:05they board five ships and set sail for the gulf of mexico but the expedition seems cursed from the outset
20:13while they're crossing the atlantic dysentery and typhoid kill 40 men what a fierce hurricane sinks
20:20two of naravaya's ships off the coast of trinidad 60 more of his men are lost along with one-fifth
20:27of
20:28the expedition's horses and most of their supplies in april of 1528 the expedition lands in what is now
20:35about tampa bay florida they unload 300 men onto the shore near a community of indigenous folks but the
20:46ships will not stay in the bay they can easily get beached so he says take those ships and continue
20:54up
20:54the coast north we'll explore from here and meet you up there do they find gold everywhere they do not
21:04what they do find is a very hostile indigenous population ready to make them pay for showing up
21:10uninvited the spaniards are met with burning arrows and ambushes leading to even more casualties
21:19narvaez is still convinced there is gold here so he pushes his men farther into the swampy florida
21:26wilderness food is scarce at least food that they want and the already weakened crew
21:32start dying from their wounds from infections from scurvy in the mosquito-infested swamps his men come
21:39down with what they call marsh fever malaria narvaez wisely decides it's time to pull back get back on the
21:47ships when narvaez and his surviving men finally stumble out of the wilderness and clamber onto the beach
21:54they're sick they're bloody they're beaten but even worse they have zero gold to show for it
22:00the ships are not there that's where the ships are supposed to pick them up but they're not there
22:05it seems his three remaining ships have sailed on to mexico one is lost to sea the other two report
22:13narvaez and his men missing narvaez hatches a desperate plan to flee florida by sea and reach mexico
22:23they make these makeshift rafts they're not even really boats because none of them are carpenters
22:29still in desperation they pack each raft with 50 to 60 men each this hapless mission goes on but
22:37they're struck by a severe storm one of the raft sinks drowning most of those on board narvaez among them
22:45only a couple of the rafts makes it to shore on galveston's barrier islands and they rename one of the
22:51islands the island of misfortune the survivors are confronted by yet another trial starvation by the
22:58time the local karankawa people find them the survivors have resorted to cannibalism of the 80 men who
23:06washed ashore only 16 are left and their problems are far from over cannibalism is taboo in most cultures
23:17and when the karankawa people find the spaniards and see what they're doing they're horrified and they
23:24immediately enslave them a mission that starts with 600 men is down to only four among the men is
23:31narvaez's second in command alvar nunez cabeza de vaca there are sick people among the karankawa and his
23:39understanding of european medicine helps him to save some of them over the years they get
23:46to the point where they are now honored members of the community and allowed to leave they know
23:53somewhere in mexico are our brethren and so they start walking west and along their way they heal
24:01other people they have an entire group of worshipers who are following them in 1536 they reach spanish
24:08settlements near the pacific and are finally rescued cabeza de vaca writes everything down documents
24:14everything that happened in this hellish decade-long misguided odyssey of mistakes and naravaya's quest
24:21for gold ends in ruin terror and death
24:33today world travel is fast and it's easy but centuries ago it could take months and might even kill you
24:46in 1519 charles v of spain is desperate for a new route to india and the far east to access
24:53the rich
24:53spice trade there supply of these spices comes from the spice islands located in what is today
24:59indonesia it's a perilous journey around the cape of good hope and around africa
25:06an ambitious portuguese captain named ferdinand magellan tries to convince charles he's the guy to deliver
25:15those spices and riches to spain so magellan thinks what if we came at indonesia from the other direction
25:24there must be another ocean that ocean must lead to the spice islands king charles likes the idea and
25:31foots the bill september 20th 1519 magellan takes off with 270 men across five ships santiago san antonio
25:44trinidad concepcion and victoria they leave spain and head for south america and root for the spoils of
25:51the far east the journey is arduous and magellan soon loses the santiago in a storm then on october 21st
26:00of
26:011520 he discovers the entrance to what he's convinced is a new route west and it immediately
26:09costs him another ship turns out the crew of san antonio doesn't share magellan's optimism
26:16they force their captain to desert and return to spain the process of finding their way through this
26:23labyrinth of islands is very difficult but magellan and his now three ships make it out into open water
26:32and it's so calm and nice he calls it the mar pacifico the pacific ocean magellan thinks he can
26:41make it across this body of water to the spice islands in three or four days but it's over three
26:46months before his ships sea land again the expedition runs out of food and fresh water 30 of the crew
26:52die
26:53mostly from scurvy which is caused by a deficiency of vitamin c on march 6 1521 after more than 100
27:02days
27:03at sea magellan and his men are the first europeans to land in the philippines they land on an island
27:11run
27:11by a chief of the tribe of cebu he says you can be here on my island but i just
27:17have one favor if you
27:19could go over to this neighboring island and take out our enemies there then we're allies for life
27:27magellan says sure why not on april 27 1521 magellan and 60 of his men make their way to the
27:35neighboring
27:35island of maktan they're well armed with muskets and crossbows protected by heavy armor it makes
27:41sense that they're overconfident he brings just 60 men and leaves 11 on the boat so just 49 of them
27:49reach this island of maktan and they think it'll be a quick job 49 well-armed sailors make their way
27:57to
27:57shore and that's where they're met with almost 1500 maktan warriors
28:07the maktan warriors target magellan and when he falls the maktans move in and stab him with their
28:13spears then they hack him apart with their blades the survivors of this ill-fated battle realize if we
28:24don't get out of here right now we're all gonna die there are only now enough crew to sail two
28:30ships
28:31in november of 1521 the missions two surviving ships and the men finally reached their objective
28:40the spice islands they load up with all the spices they can carry and continue west across the indian
28:48ocean they are sailing on to spain but the trinidad badly overloaded starts to leak and it will
28:56eventually go down in a storm the last ship the victoria managed to survive the storm and limps its
29:03way home to spain but not before 21 more men die of starvation beginning with five ships and 270 men
29:14a single ship lands with just 18 men left
29:21magellan's voyage opens a whole new frontier 400 years later a soviet mission to the final frontier turns
29:31deadly
29:35in june 1971 almost two years after american neil armstrong first set foot on the moon
29:43soviet cosmonauts georgie dobrovolski vladyslaw volkov and victor patseev are on a launch pad in
29:50kazakhstan hoping to make space history themselves once there are american footprints on the moon
29:56the soviets scrambled to come up with a new way to regain the lead in the space race and their
30:02idea
30:03a space station orbiting the earth soviet one the world's first space station was launched two months
30:12earlier and is ready for a team to test how humans will live in space
30:21on june 7th after a successful launch the crew of so use 11 docks with soviet one they do
30:29experiments on plants on frogs on each other they learn how the body reacts to weightlessness for an
30:35extended period of time on june 29th after spending a record 23 days in space it's time for the three
30:44cosmonauts to head back to earth eighty miles above the earth the soyuz separates into three
30:50parts for re-entry explosive bolts release each section and all seems to be going according to
30:55plan the work compartment and service modules are jettisoned leaving the crew inside the middle descent
31:01module but then ground control loses contact with the craft
31:07the fact that they can't communicate with the cosmonauts doesn't worry them too much because these
31:12incredibly high speeds and high temperatures a radio failure is to be expected the soviet recovery team
31:20expecting a triumphant return films the landing but instead they capture a tragedy when technicians knock
31:29on the capsule door they don't get a response these three cosmonauts become the first men to ever die
31:37in space the soviets start to wonder what went wrong the soviets figure out that when the capsule
31:45separated into three parts the explosive bolts were supposed to detonate sequentially but there was
31:52a malfunction and they all went off at the same time the simultaneous explosions cause a pressure
31:59equalization valve to open prematurely and when that valve opens the cabin rapidly depressurizes
32:05evidence evidence shows the crew lose consciousness because they're not wearing pressurized suits
32:10they die in under two minutes three men were trying to push the boundaries of what mankind
32:17understood about space and they did but upon returning back to earth they lost their lives
32:28in early 1968 the soviet union is expanding naval operations in the pacific cold war tensions are running high
32:40then a soviet nuclear submarine goes missing setting off a frantic search
32:50it's march 8th 1968 k129 has missed a routine check-in and now they can't establish contact with her
32:58the soviet sub is going to hawaii reportedly to gather intelligence on american underwater listening
33:04posts in the pacific ocean the soviet navy combs a vast area of the pacific for two months and finds
33:12nothing and that's because they're looking in the wrong place the day the sub disappears
33:18u.s naval listening devices ironically what the k129 was sent to investigate detect a massive underwater
33:28explosion the explosion makes it clear that the 98 crew members suffered a grisly death on their way to
33:37the bottom of the ocean the blast also helps the americans pinpoint the subs location here's when
33:46things get dicey a u.s mission to recover a lost soviet sub could spark world war iii so how
33:52do you steal
33:52a 1500 ton soviet submarine without anyone noticing the cia is put in charge of recovering the soviet nuclear
34:01sub the mission is codenamed project azorian it's got immense technical challenges k129 lies on the
34:11seabed 16 000 feet below sea level the deepest the u.s navy has ever recovered a sub before was
34:22245 feet
34:24but the cia has a plan one straight out of a spy thriller they decide to build a giant ship
34:32with a secret underwater compartment that will drop an arm into the ocean and pull k129 up off the
34:39ocean floor the cia commits 350 million dollars to build their salvage ship a move they know will
34:48attract attention the cia needs a plausible cover story a story that is so bizarre that it actually
34:57sounds believable they reach out to the most bizarre man in america howard hughes hughes the very
35:03well-known filthy rich eccentric actually comes from a mining family so the cia comes up with this story
35:11that their secret sub recovery ship is really an ocean mining ship owned by howard hughes and he's
35:17attempting to mine manganese from the ocean floor it's going to take years to build this specialized
35:24ship that means years to maintain the cover story and years to hope that the soviets don't find it on
35:31their own six years after the k129 vanished one of the most secretive and dangerous salvage operations
35:39in history reaches the wreck could you detonate a warhead trying to bring it to the surface keeping
35:45in mind that these three nuclear warheads have a combined yield that is 80 times greater than the
35:51two atomic bombs that level nagasaki and hiroshima if this goes badly it could result in the deaths of
36:02millions in early august of 1974 the ship now called the glomar hughes explorer is in position far above the
36:14sub the k129 rests on the ocean floor in two mangled pieces the explorer's crew aims for the 136 foot
36:24long
36:25forward section they drop the claw down 16 000 feet and they successfully grab hold of k129
36:34as it begins to pull up disaster strikes the sub's wreckage cracks in half and some of it starts to
36:41plummet back to the seafloor the u.s still recovers a portion of the sub and the remains of six
36:48of the
36:4998 crew members those bodies by the way are radioactive and are buried at sea the mission remains a secret
36:56until february 7th 1975 when the los angeles times breaks the story about the glomar operation the game
37:05is up the soviets know exactly what the americans are up to and they are not happy they tell the
37:12americans
37:12very plainly if you try again to raise the remains of our submarine it's war the entire
37:20odyssey of k129 ends not only in the death of the 98 crew it comes dangerously close to setting the
37:29entire
37:29planet on fire
37:39imagine being on a military mission so top secret you don't even know you're on it
37:46one that forces you to confront two deadly enemies before it's over the forces of germany have
37:54surrendered to the united nations it's july 1945 hitler is dead and the war in europe is over but the
38:04brutal war in the pacific is not the japanese refuse to surrender plans are made for an allied invasion
38:10of japan to end the war but the u.s military sees a chance to end the war without a
38:17costly invasion
38:18by unleashing a new top secret super weapon the united states navy's heavy cruiser the uss indianapolis
38:27steams towards tinian island 5 600 miles distant and it has a very special cargo a brand new weapon that's
38:37never been seen before it's so secret that sailors aboard don't even know that it's on their ship
38:44because her mission is so secret she travels without escort ships or air cover the indianapolis
38:51is carrying critical components of what will be the 15 kiloton bomb little boy that will be dropped
38:58on hiroshima and kill 150 000 citizens on july 26th the uss indianapolis drops off its deadly cargo
39:09in tinian word has gotten out among the crew of course the atomic bomb is now inscribed in chalk with
39:17the message greetings to the emperor from the men of the indianapolis once the components of the bomb
39:22are dropped off at tinian it moves on to round two of the mission proceed to the late gulf in
39:29the
39:29philippines shortly after midnight on july 30th a japanese submarine spots the uss indianapolis at night
39:35silhouetted against the night sky just totally by luck it fires a handful of torpedoes one torpedo hits
39:43it off the front a second torpedo hits it right dead center very near the magazine depot holding all
39:48the ammunition for the entire ship that causes a catastrophic explosion that absolutely rips the ship
39:55in two in 12 minutes the indianapolis sinks to the bottom of the sea of the almost 1200 sailors on
40:03board
40:04about 300 go down with the ship the remaining 900 are now in the water many of them burned or
40:09bleeding
40:10all fighting for their lives sharks close in and start to eat the dead and then turn on the living
40:18these are white tip oceanic sharks torpedoes with teeth when the sun starts to come up they realize
40:27it's not just a few sharks it's hundreds of sharks as hours turn into days another enemy appears the human
40:37body can only live three days without fresh water and right now these men have been in the ocean for
40:42almost a full day already these men are wondering does anyone even know we're out here finally on august
40:492nd after three and a half days a passing navy patrol plane through pure luck spots the man in the
40:58water
40:59a little after midnight on august 3rd the first rescue ship shows up of the 900 men that made it
41:07in
41:07the water just over 300 remain injuries sharks other elements have taken the other 600 men
41:16the sailors have done what they needed to do to end the war but then they end up in shark
41:21infested water
41:22fighting for fighting for their lives even with the best planning enemies or the elements can turn a
41:32dangerous mission into a true disaster and that's how they end up among history's deadliest
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