World's deadliest shark attack where 150 men were "disembowelled" over four days

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reports. What followed was a shark attack so horrifying it was even included in the film Jaws in a scene where shark hunter Quint tells of his own fictional experiences in the incident.But for Sergeant Edgar Harrell that terrifying story rings very true, as he was one of the lucky ones who survived the frenzy which could have seen as many as 150 people killed.Tiger sharks and oceanic whitetip sharks sunk their teeth into the surviving crew in the biggest attack on humans ever recorded by the predators.To make matters worse, the sustained attacks lasted around four days as the weakening troops started to flag and the sharks kept circling.Sergeant Edgar Harrell said he could still hear the screams of the friends who were clinging to each other as the creatures began ripping chunks out of their legs."You would hear a blood-curdling scream and look and see someone going under - all we heard was men being eaten alive, every day, every night," Harrell said in 2019."You’d find your buddy and check him and find that he’s disembowelled, or the bottom was gone.He added: "I swam away from the ship and towards a group of marines who had already fled the boat - one was badly injured and he died in my arms within the next hour."Mr Harrell, the last survivor of the attack, died in May 2021.He explained what he and his colleagues went through as they kept themselves alive for days in the open water as the sharks eyed them up.Troops huddled together in the ocean in the hope they could scare the predators away, but many were unable to avoid the feeding frenzy.Of 80 men who huddled together in the water with Mr Harrell, just 17 were alive three days later.He and a friend only escaped because a group of sailors urged them to join them on a.