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All time worst mass animal attacks (Ramree Island and USS Indianapolis)
Posted on 4/10/21 at 7:48 pm
Posted on 4/10/21 at 7:48 pm
Not sure which disaster would be more miserable to be in. I think Ramree Island would have been worse.
Ramree Island, Japanese soldiers were out flanked by the Allies and retreated to the other end of the island, and had to spend the night in the mangroves being eaten alive by Saltwater Crocodiles.
USS Indianapolis. After the Americans delivered one of the A-bombs on a top secret mission, the Japs torpedoed the ship, and no one was available to help, they also did not have an escort. The sailors were left for days in the middle of the Pacific dying of thirst, and eventually becoming food for sharks (tiger and white tip mostly)
Ramree Island, Japanese soldiers were out flanked by the Allies and retreated to the other end of the island, and had to spend the night in the mangroves being eaten alive by Saltwater Crocodiles.
USS Indianapolis. After the Americans delivered one of the A-bombs on a top secret mission, the Japs torpedoed the ship, and no one was available to help, they also did not have an escort. The sailors were left for days in the middle of the Pacific dying of thirst, and eventually becoming food for sharks (tiger and white tip mostly)
This post was edited on 4/10/21 at 8:42 pm
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Posted on 4/10/21 at 7:51 pm to burger bearcat
quote:
Ramree Island, Japanese soldiers were out flanked by the Allies and retreated to the other end of the island, and had to spend the night in the mangroves being eaten alive by Saltwater Crocodiles.
Good
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:04 pm to burger bearcat
I feel like the Shark would be a better way to go, tear you up quicker and also pull you down and swim really fast drowning you quicker.
Damn crocodile would probably beat and scratch the crap out of you while he was ripping your guts out in shallower water
Damn crocodile would probably beat and scratch the crap out of you while he was ripping your guts out in shallower water
This post was edited on 4/10/21 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:09 pm to burger bearcat
Not knowing what’s below me in the ocean is probably my biggest fear, but saltwater crocs sounds pretty terrifying
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:09 pm to Tiger1242
First thing a crocodile does is drown its’ victim.
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:10 pm to burger bearcat
quote:
Japanese soldiers were out flanked by the Allies and retreated to the other end of the island, and had to spend the night in the mangroves being eaten alive by Saltwater Crocodiles
frick em
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:11 pm to wallowinit
quote:
First thing a crocodile does is drown its’ victim.
Yes but you’re in a lake or shallower pool probably so likely getting slammed into the mud and bodied by a croc as you drown.
Shark maybe takes you and swims 40mph filling your lungs with water and drowning you quicker. That or hits, swims away, hits again, while you float around and suffer....
Either way I’ll pass
This post was edited on 4/10/21 at 8:12 pm
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:11 pm to burger bearcat
I'll take mangrove swamp. You at least have the ability to climb a tree to survive.
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:14 pm to jaytothen
quote:
You at least have the ability to climb a tree to survive.
Until you climb that tree holding a bunch of GDCK’s!!!
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:14 pm to burger bearcat
I can remember the name of the river off the top of my head, but Japanese dead and wounded met a similar fate on Guadalcanal. Marines were set up on one side of the river and slaughtered the Japs as they tried to cross. Crocodiles finished the job.
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:15 pm to burger bearcat
Yeah, shark would probably be quicker
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:16 pm to burger bearcat
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Japanese soldiers
Sushi sounds good to me.
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:21 pm to burger bearcat
Pretty sure the saltwater crocs story was debunked. Most of these Japanese drowned or were shot and the crocs ate the remains.
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:25 pm to Shanegolang
Black eyes, lifeless eyes. Like a doll’s eyes.
Posted on 4/10/21 at 10:01 pm to burger bearcat
Posted on 4/10/21 at 10:08 pm to burger bearcat
Recent thread on the Indianapolis
Some good links and info in here
Interested to look up Ramree island now
Some good links and info in here
Interested to look up Ramree island now
Posted on 4/10/21 at 10:47 pm to burger bearcat
Indianapolis survivors lasted 6 days in the water.
The crocodile story probably isn’t accurate.
The crocodile story probably isn’t accurate.
quote:
These figures have been disputed by other historians, who call the event an urban myth.[12] McLynn wrote Most of all, there is a single zoological problem. If 'thousands of crocodiles' were involved in the massacre, as in the urban (jungle) myth, how had these ravening monsters survived before and how were they to survive later? The ecosystem of a mangrove swamp, with an exiguous mammal life, simply would not have permitted the existence of so many saurians before the coming of the Japanese (animals are not exempt from the laws of overpopulation and starvation).[13] The British official history (War against Japan volume IV, The Reconquest of Burma, 1965 [2004]) referred only to "crocodile-infested mangrove swamps".[7] In 2016, Sam Willis reported having found documentation indicating that the Japanese soldiers mostly drowned and/or were shot and that crocodiles scavenged on their corpses afterwards.[14]
Posted on 4/10/21 at 11:06 pm to CocomoLSU
"rip ya to pieces!" 
Posted on 4/10/21 at 11:08 pm to CocomoLSU
USS Indianapolis
Indianapolis left,
With near twelve hundred men,
Only three hundred sixteen,
Would come back again,
And so secret was she,
sent no call of distress,
The torpedoes got some,
And the sharks got the rest,
They delivered the bomb,
And in secret returned,
‘Til a Japanese sub,
Their location discerned,
And a pair of torpedoes,
With hardly a sound,
Put a hole in her hull,
In 12 minutes she drowned,
Some unlucky three hundred,
Joined her when she did sink,
Nearly 900 men,
Still remained in the drink,
Oil-coated, they floated,
Out there in the dark,
But when dawn broke upon them,
They saw the first shark,
Floating there in the flotsam,
And then came the screams,
Then the spreading red water,
That would haunt them in dreams,
Doll-eyed bulls, hungry tigers,
Whites and fierce hammerheads,
Bodies bobbed, as asleep,
Bitten in half, were dead,
In warm seas of the tropics,
The blue water was clear,
Sailors spied swimming specters,
Of death drawing near,
As the salt and sun burned,
Robbing men of their pallor,
As these beasts had their feast,
Taking six men an hour,
Adrift in the ocean,
No planes, and no birds,
Only sharks by the thousand,
And the screams of two thirds,
But as bad as the day was,
The night was the worst,
Though surrounded by water,
Sailors cried out from thirst,
It was nearly 4 days,
Until rescue would come,
Men were begging for death,
Wishes granted for some,
Dying words from the wounded,
Vests unstrapped from the dead,
All while unblinking monsters,
Would grow fat and well fed,
With near twelve hundred men,
That doomed ship had set out,
Only three hundred sixteen,
Would still be about,
Of that secret ship’s sailors,
Were near nine hundred less,
The cruel sea claimed the lucky,
And the sharks got the rest.
Indianapolis left,
With near twelve hundred men,
Only three hundred sixteen,
Would come back again,
And so secret was she,
sent no call of distress,
The torpedoes got some,
And the sharks got the rest,
They delivered the bomb,
And in secret returned,
‘Til a Japanese sub,
Their location discerned,
And a pair of torpedoes,
With hardly a sound,
Put a hole in her hull,
In 12 minutes she drowned,
Some unlucky three hundred,
Joined her when she did sink,
Nearly 900 men,
Still remained in the drink,
Oil-coated, they floated,
Out there in the dark,
But when dawn broke upon them,
They saw the first shark,
Floating there in the flotsam,
And then came the screams,
Then the spreading red water,
That would haunt them in dreams,
Doll-eyed bulls, hungry tigers,
Whites and fierce hammerheads,
Bodies bobbed, as asleep,
Bitten in half, were dead,
In warm seas of the tropics,
The blue water was clear,
Sailors spied swimming specters,
Of death drawing near,
As the salt and sun burned,
Robbing men of their pallor,
As these beasts had their feast,
Taking six men an hour,
Adrift in the ocean,
No planes, and no birds,
Only sharks by the thousand,
And the screams of two thirds,
But as bad as the day was,
The night was the worst,
Though surrounded by water,
Sailors cried out from thirst,
It was nearly 4 days,
Until rescue would come,
Men were begging for death,
Wishes granted for some,
Dying words from the wounded,
Vests unstrapped from the dead,
All while unblinking monsters,
Would grow fat and well fed,
With near twelve hundred men,
That doomed ship had set out,
Only three hundred sixteen,
Would still be about,
Of that secret ship’s sailors,
Were near nine hundred less,
The cruel sea claimed the lucky,
And the sharks got the rest.
Posted on 4/10/21 at 11:20 pm to BFIV
quote:
I would include The Maneaters of Tsavo, also. Pure terror for those folks working on the railroad.
LINK
436 victims, the Champawat Tiger: LINK
And the Leopard of Panar. Over 400 victims. LINK
Thanks for the links. Another interesting one is "Snake Island" in Brazil (Ilha da Queimada Grandel)
LINK
A light keeper and his entire family was living on the island, when a bunch of vipers slithered into their house and killed the entire family. Most snake infested place on earth.
This post was edited on 4/10/21 at 11:22 pm
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