Sea of Sharks: A Sailor's World War II Survival Story

About this book

Caught off Okinawa in the fiercest typhoon in history at the end of World War II. Elmer Renner then a young officer aboard a US minesweeper recounts the horror of his ship sinking. Renner and eight other sailors clung to a small raft for days battling thirst hunger shark attacks and eventually madness. Renner and co-author Ken Birks describe the mens panic as distant ships seemingly ignore their desperate calls the sea turning blood red when one of the men loses his life to a shark and how another slips silently away into the unforgiving Pacific.