Thanks for the additional details. I sure didn’t mean to make light of the manner of the sailors’s deaths. Dead is dead, be it drowning, shark or otherwise. The movie JAWS leaves people with the impression that sharks were just feasting in a frenzy on surviving sailors for days. The detailed show I watched about it left a very different impression. Like you said, guys would just take the life preserver off a goner and he would just sink down to where the sharks would scavenge on him.
Terrible in any event.
No problem, I didn’t think you were making light of it. Yeah, when I first heard the story I too was under the impression the sharks were the biggest threats. It was as you said the days of exposure, lack of water/food, and the stress of it all.
I couldn’t begin to imagine the horror of it all, it creeped me out just to watch 15 minutes on “Last Days of WWII”