On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:59 PM, <tmr0195@comcast.net> wrote:

Thank you Grimmund for confirming I was not told a sea story, can you also confirm the other part that tiger sharks like the spot too?;-)

Tom R

West Loch?

I don't know about tigers. Hammerheads spawn in Kane'ohe Bay, but that's on the other side of the island, north and a little east. Pearl is down on the south-west side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Loch_disaster (May 44)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster (July 44)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Mount_Hood_(AE-11) (November 44)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Serpens_(AK-97) (January 45)

There is some association of tiger sharks with the sinking of the Indianapolis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)

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