On July 29, 1945, four days after delivering the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese sub I-58. Of the 1,199 men on board, 883 perished.

Culled from previously unavailable files, this is the chilling story of how the US Navy left the crew in shark-infested waters for four days, and why only a fraction of the 800 men who safely abandoned the ship survived the ordeal. This is the true story of the massive thirty-year cover-up that followed.