Inside world’s deadliest shark attack that inspired Jaws where 150 sailors were eaten alive after US warship sunk

THE heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis had raced across the Pacific with components of the first atomic bomb. But two torpedoes in the dead of night destroyed that triumph – sparking the deadliest shark attack in history. The disaster even served as the terrifying real-life inspiration for the character Quint’s famous monologue in the movie Jaws….