Dangit, rafowell, for the 1,395th time: great post man! Much appreciated.
You are all welcome. You, (Glock-A-Roo) can take credit for drawing our attention to it. I'd actually read McVay's account a while back, but I learned a whole lot more yesterday. Note that extensive previews of many of the books on the Indianapolis are readable at the links I gave. A lot of information absent in early accounts came to light in the 1990s as a result of declassification, private reinvestigation of documents, and extensive interviews of survivors and their rescuers. Here are three more accounts readable online: