Quote:Eighteen thousand feet beneath the Philippine Sea, a submersible descends through absolute darkness. The pilot guides the craft toward twisted steel that has rested untouched for seventy-two years. Then the floodlights illuminate something that should not exist. Evidence scattered across the debris field that contradicts everything the United States Navy has told us about the worst disaster at sea in American naval history. For seven decades, the story seemed settled. The USS Indianapolis delivered components for the atomic bomb, got torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, sank in twelve minutes, and nine hundred men spent four days in shark-infested waters before rescue. A tragedy, yes. But the Navy said they knew what happened. Captain Charles McVay was court-martialed and found responsible. Case closed. Except the submersible footage tells a different story. One that implicates not Japanese torpedoes, but American decisions made in classified rooms before Indianapolis ever left port. And what those cameras found inside the wreck suggests the nine hundred men in the water were not just fighting sharks and exposure. They were dying to protect a secret that three admirals and a president decided was worth more than their lives.