The Worst Shark Attack in History, the USS Indianapolis Disaster - Part 2: The Ordeal

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Tooth & Claw

True Crime, Nature, Science, Comedy

4.8 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome back to Tooth and Claw podcast.
0:16.8	If this is your first time ever listening to us, stop.
0:20.9	Stop right now. Turn your phone off and listening to us, stop. Stop right now.
0:22.3	Turn your phone off and listen to episode one.
0:25.3	To say, yeah.
0:26.6	Yeah.
0:27.0	Turn it back on.
0:28.2	Go back, listen to episode one.
0:30.1	Now turn it off.
0:31.6	Short introduction with Tooth and Cloud Podcast.
0:34.3	Two of us really love animals.
0:37.3	All three of us love sharks. That's true. Yeah.
0:39.9	So let's go with that. I'm a wildlife biologist. Jeff helped me on my Black Bear Project. Yes.
0:44.7	And yeah, we talk about animal attacks. We really. The Black Bear Project, we learned a lot about
0:49.6	sharks, too. Did? I guess not. I mean, we need just black bears. Anyway, we're all here together in Montana, so recording in my parents' basement, which is kind of fun. Yeah. That's great. Did you guys see that tree on the way up? No, we took the other way. No, the Dr. Seuss tree. Oh, yeah. No, just that one tree that you pointed out that once.
1:11.9	That was such a nice tree.
1:14.2	The Lorax would agree with me.
1:15.9	That was the first time I ever really met you was on that trip.
1:20.5	He's talking about when you just pointed at a forest.
1:22.8	You just pointed at a random tree and you were like to see that tree.
1:25.1	Yeah, the Doctor Seas.
1:26.1	The Lorax is going to be into that tree. All right. Just like me. Okay. Yeah, that was 2012. And that was, I feel like I'd met you a few times, but that was the first time we really hung out. Yeah. You weren't really getting his humor for a bit on that, too, where you were like took me a second. What tree? Yeah.
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