When the SOS messages went through the boss shouldn’t have been drunk so that he could call for rescue boats to go out and find where the crew was. Captain McVay shouldn’t be blamed for the sinking of the …show more content…
Indy it should be the drunk boss. If the boss wasn’t drunk maybe he could help a little and the crew members wouldn’t have to die from starvation and thirst. When the boat sank they didn’t have bigger life raft so they had to float in the water which caused them to get eaten by big sharks. The oil which was used as sun screen was really bad to breathe in and get in your mouth cause of all the chemicals in the oil which caused the survivors to die and get bad hallucinations like seeing island with water and food on them.
When Hunter Scott and the survivor tried to draft a bill that would exonerate Captain McVay it showed how much they wanted McVay not to be accused of something that wasn’t his fault.
When the survivors had a reunion to talk about all their lives and how they have been doing over the past years which was a long time ago. After 20 years after the sinking Captain McVay commits Suicide because of all the hate and Christmas cards that he receives in the mail which are filled with letters of hate. On the journey to clear Captain McVay’s name Hunter Scott gave a speech about his testimony and how he was brought to the subject of the Indianapolis which persuaded the senators and was really persuasive. I think that the Captain shouldn’t have got accused for the sinking, if they didn’t accuse him then he wouldn’t have killed himself. When the Captain was exonerated for the loss of the ship and the loss of the crew made everyone feel like they were not having to deal with a lot of stress if he would be guilty or not. The sinking made me feel like I was on the edge of my seat the whole entire
book.