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Inside Jaws

Wondery

Movies, Tv & Film, Jaws, Documentary, Film History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

1945: The saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis – no ships, no planes, no rescue. Just…sharks. Cut to: The emotional center of JAWS: Sometimes drunk, sometimes sober - Robert Shaw’s indelible tale of the Indianapolis receives an ovation from cast and crew. The ORCA starts to sink – with all hands still on deck. The journey of a rotting shark carcass from Florida to Martha’s Vineyard. The on-set rivalry between Richard Dreyfus and Robert Shaw. A post-production panic attack for Steven Spielberg. And an unsolved murder nearby the JAWS shoot – more than 40 years later, was the mystery solved by writer Joe Hill?

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to Inside Jaws, ad free on Amazon Music, download the app today.
0:07.0	The following contains mature content. You've been warned.
0:17.0	From Wondry, I'm Mark Ramsey, and this is part six of inside jaws. July 30, 1945. The sea stretched in all directions as far as the eye could see. It was
0:49.1	daylight now, but there were no ships, no planes, no help, no time for distress signals, but eventually they would be missed.
0:59.0	Eventually.
1:02.0	Nine hundred men in the water, many bleeding and vomiting, many with broken limbs or fractured backs or skulls.
1:10.0	Captain McVeigh, sir. skulls.
1:13.0	Captain McVeigh, sir, how long can these boys survive out here without food or water?
1:19.0	Without food?
1:21.0	Maybe 30 days, without water, maybe a week.
1:26.5	But that's for healthy men, many of these boys.
1:31.4	The day wore on, scanning the seas and the skies for help in vain.
1:38.0	Dusk came.
1:42.0	Nine hundred men floating, clinging to bits and pieces of debris, lying in rafts, bobbing in
1:50.0	life vests.
1:52.0	That's when the bumping began. Bumping from below. Nudges, tiny kicks. Why'd you nudge me?
2:05.0	I didn't nudge you, did you just kick me?
2:07.0	I didn't touch you.
2:09.0	Something was testing them, prodding them, something beneath the water, something
2:17.0	hungry. Hi, it's me the O.G. Green Grump, the Grinch.
2:27.0	Listen as I launch a campaign against Christmas cheer,
2:32.8	grilling celebrity guests, like chestnuts on an open fire.
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