Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "Survival at Sea - Oh Lord the ship is on fire/sinking/exploding/disagreeable" video.

  1. IDK, you mentioned the "Indianapolis"! When I saw this video that ship was my very first thought. Over 1,200 crew when it sank, 316 survivors. Right at 25%. And as long as they were in the water it's amazing any of them lived. The Captain survived and was court martialed for not zig zagging. But they finally said it wasn't his fault. But he had eaten a bullet years before he was ever exonerated. Sharks took about 750 men. Maybe more, maybe less. That's what they got for delivering the first atomic bomb to be dropped on Japan. I guess it was better than losing millions of people by invading mainland Japan. That bomb was killing people before it was even deployed.
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  2. This is the episode that made me a Drach Fan! Without a doubt I really enjoyed this episode & I doubt I will ever be at sea to need this information. But the dark humor & sarcasm he uses is just really awesome. And the ending where he says for everyone to take a minute of silence for those that for whatever reason was lost at sea is rather touching and special. Most of "The Tin Can Sailors" that faced the Japanese Center Force & drove them away from the landing forces & the light carriers were not rescued for about 76 hours. During that time no one is sure how many perished in the water after surviving the battle. Also the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis is known to delivering the parts for the atomic weapons that destroyed Hiroshima & Nagasaki was sunk after delivering those parts. It is believed that out of a crew of over 1200 about 900 made it into the water after a Japanese submarine put 3 torpedoes into the ship in the middle of the night. After about a week in the water only 316 survivors were rescued. Sharks & exposure claimed the rest.
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  3. Yeah, I just learned yesterday about a tribal class destroyer getting cut in half by HMS KGV & 49 men in the aft section of the destroyer died due to depth charges exploding as the ship sank or just drowned cuz that section sank so quickly. But getting killed by their own ordinance is definitely a bad day! USS Washington was also forced to sail between the fore & aft sections of the sinking destroyer & incurred damage from the depth charges as well.
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  4. ​@seraphina985 I would have said "Well in that case you trust way too much!" Should ww start screaming now or try to put or head between our legs & kiss our ass goodbye?
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  5. No, the USS Indianapolis was NOT sunk by a "friendly" submarine. Where did you get that? It was sunk by the Japanese. However, because they delivered a bomb that would kill & wound hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians, I think God had a hand in the Indianapolis sinking. 316 survivors. JOHN 3-16. Just one of those things to remind us that he is watching. And I've never considered myself very religious but IDK it's just too much of a coincidence. Those sailors may have went thru hell, but the bomb they delivered created another kind of hell & 100x worse. And the survivors of the Indianapolis, they say 1100 - 1200 went into the water & only 316 came out of the water. The sharks took the rest. To this day it's considered the largest, longest shark attack with the most loss of life known to man. And in Burma, I think, the British over run a whole division of Japanese soldiers & they claim that about 1100 Japanese soldiers retreated into a mangrove swamp that was infested with crocodiles. Said there were at least 20 to 30 full grown saltwater crocodiles that were over 20 foot long with thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of other smaller crocs from one foot to full grown. The British had the swamp surrounded & kept urging the soldiers to surrender but they wouldn't. And every night they said they could hear screams all night as the crocs kept picking them off one by one. The British even set up speakers & had interpreters tell them to surrender & they would not be harmed. Finally, after almost a week the last survivors surrendered. There were only about 200 left. Crocodiles ate the rest. Not long after, a great big horde of those crocs left searching for the Japanese Islands. One of them said cuz of the Japanese smaller build they could easily be taken if unaware, & they taste just as good chicken but no feathers getting in the way. Just joking on that part. But the rest is true, I think.
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