Abandon Ship! by Richard F. Newcomb

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/186747 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abandon Ship! Author: Richard F. Newcomb Narrator: Qarie Marshall Format: mp3 Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins Release date: 10-22-19 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 19 ratings Genres: Transportation Publisher's Summary: Sailing across the Pacific, the battle-scarred heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis had just delivered a secret cargo that would trigger the end of World War II. Heading westward, she was sunk by a Japanese submarine. In 12 minutes, some 300 men went down with her. More than 900 other spent four horrific days and five nights in the ocean with no water to drink, savaged by a pitiless sun and swarms of sharks. Incredibly, no one knew they were there until a navy patrol plane accidentally discovered them. In the end, only 316 crewmen survived. How could this have happened - and why?