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Originally Posted by rune
hmm, good find.
but i really seem to recall something about oil. and i am almost sure the sinking was not a result of enemy fire.
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I don't know then. Do you know if the ship blew up?
When a ship goes down there's almost always an oil slick. The footage of sailors being plucked from the seas in WWII almost always shows the sailors covered in oil.
I know in survival school (Navy 1983) we spent a good deal of time in a pool working on how to bob up and down in the water if it's covered in oil and that oil's ablaze. That and how to do things like make a life jacket out of your pants and what types of possible floating debris would be edible. Turns out fire fighting foam has protein in it, but it's not very tasty.