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Originally Posted by Letum
This is way off topic, but recently I was speaking to a Royal Navy Veteran whose
destroyer was hit by a u-boat. He said that the thing that stuck with him was
that as the destroyer slipped beneath the waves on an even keel and he was
kicking and swimming to reach the surface, he could hear the bang-bang-bang of
a damage repair crew in a air pocket in the ship still trying to seal the leaks,
unaware that the tip of the mast was slipping beneath the waves.
He spent 14 days alone on a raft before he was picked up.
Chilling.
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I wonder which is the luckier.....those that perished or the individual spending 14 days afloat and terrible memories for the rest of their life :hmm: