December 8, 2025 • 11 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's Lucky Dip time. Lucky Dip time, our little podcast
where we tell you something we chat shared. It might
be a story or a conversation that was shit, so
so sorry I have to tell you. Do we stop
and do it again?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
No, we all have off days.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It was an off day. It was enough day. But
thanks for being honest. That's all right, friendship, it is Melamonte.
Thanks for joining us, our little bite size podcast for you,
a little lucky dip where we choose something at random
to talk about. I've got a story and this is
kind of normally your domain mail where you get a
(00:45):
story and tell us. But I saw this and it
fascinated me. So sit back and relax because I've got
a little story for you. Yes, it's not a good story,
by the way, even better, even better. Yeah, okay. So
this was in nineteen forty five, right, There was a
huge American ship that raced across the Pacific with parts
(01:06):
of an atomic bomb. So it was wartime, and they
had parts of an atomic bomb in the ship that
they were trying to get from A to B.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
But at midnight on June thirtieth, nineteen forty five, two
torpedoes destroyed that mission. It was a Japanese submarine and
the first torpedo bleuw of half of the ship starboard
side or whatever it is. I got my boat license
years and years ago, and I still don't know starboard
or what's the other one?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Wait? Wait, wait, yeah, can you repeat what you just said?
Your fucking what? Yep?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
My boat license because my dad had a jet ski.
So there's the boaters and the jet skiers. I was
on the bogan side.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You have a boat license.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It expired, but I did.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
This reminds me of the time that you dropped in
a conversation, oh back when I did interpretive dance.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Mate, I'm a mixed bag. You never know what you're
going to get.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I thought I knew everything. I know it see that.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
This is one of those things where it's a nice
surprise when you think, story about everyone, everything about me.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's starboard and what is it? Starbars? Because I read
something the other day. Hang on it.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You won't be listening to my story. You're just sorry.
Keep going anyway. So one side of the boat was
completely destroyed on this mission by the first torpedo, and
then the second one hit it and it started a
huge fire, and within twelve minutes the ship was on
the bottom of the ocean. Right. So of the one thousand,
one hundred and ninety six men on board shit I know, hideous,
(02:47):
around nine hundred of them made it into the water alive.
But the nightmare had not yet begun.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So at sunrise, the survivors clustered in groups, trying to
stay warm and give each other hope that they were
going to get through this chaos. A few had rafts,
but there were no life jackets, like this was a
long time ago. I think there was maybe a few
life jackets, but they just weren't working properly. So these
men are just there like treading water, like Grade six
star where you had to jump into the pool with
(03:17):
all your clothes on, remember.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Anyway, the sun was beating down, they started to hallucinate
from the heat and the thirst, and then the sharks came. No, yes,
first they closed in on the dead bodies, and then
they started turning on the living. So a survivor of this,
(03:41):
Leon Deane Cox, told the BBC. Yeah, imagine how Leon's
been through.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
He told the BBC. Every now and then, like lightning,
a shark would come straight up and grab a sailor
and drag him down. Fuck that one took a sailor
next to him. He said. It was constant screen yelling
or getting hit. And then the men would start to
drink the sea water because they'd been out there so long,
so they'd go crazy, and then they'd scramble and like
(04:11):
you know when you're hallucinating, sometimes they'd grab the man
next to them and drag them down. So it was
just carnage between the drinking of the salt water, the
men going crazy, and the end was circling sharks.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And hang on there in the middle of the ocean.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Here the middle of the Pacific Ocean. So none of
the SOS signals went out. When it sunk like they
activated the SOS signals, but no one acted on them,
and then no one noticed when it failed to reach
its destination either. The only way that they were found
was a navy plane flew over them four days later.
(04:46):
No spotted them and then sent help out for them.
So of the nine hundred men who ended up in
the water, three hundred and sixteen of them survived. One
hundred and fifty of them were eaten by shark.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I know the instinct is to survive, right, and I
know that whatever. Whenever you're in a situation like that,
you say like, oh, you know, i'd give up, but
your body probably wouldn't let your human nature is you
just like that's when you go through hectic trauma and
stuff like that. There's something in you that makes you
(05:22):
just keep going. But I hear that, and I'm like, oh,
I would. I would sort of concede, like I would
swim to the shark to just get it over picker,
you know, because you know what it's like. I think
about when I was a kid and we used to
play Tiggy playing Tiggy. Yeah, we all know, I'm not
the sportiest girl around. When the chase began and they
(05:44):
would be running after me, I'd sort of stop. I'd
just go, Okay, that's so annoying because I just I
was I couldn't deal with the anxiety of the pursuit.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yes, yes see, I think when I think of this story,
I think, oh, the hallucinating and every to me would
feel so revolting. I'd get a migraine. I would just
let myself drown. I'd stop kicking.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I don't think you could let yourself drive.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I don't think you can let yourself I.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Don't think you could. Just your body would be screaming
to you. You could, you'd keep coming up, wouldn't you?
So you'd just live out, have to live out the hell. God,
some people he's been through some stuff, like Leon lived
through that, as did three hundred and sixteen other men.
That is the worst. It's like the worst nightmare scenario ever.
(06:31):
It's And how hungry were those sharks?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Well, I mean would be on a feeding frenzy. But
it's one of the motivators behind the movie Jaws, like
apparently one of his Yeah, one of his big speeches
in the movie Jaws, I think references it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Almost that is horrible, isn't horrible? The ocean is terrifying.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I think I saw a shark the other day when
I was doing one of my daily dips. I said
to I showed Sam the sight like it was over
a meter, and I said to Sam, I don't think
a fish is that big. You know, when the waves
come up and you could I could see something black
data clock across in the wave, like out about twenty meters.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
How far out are you going, No, I'm not very
far at all.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I barely I go up to my belly button. Oh,
and then I don't from there because I'm so scared
of sharks. But my our babysitters a mad surfer, and
she said, you would be shocked how many sharks are
out there. She's like, if you looked at the satellite
of it, She's like, there's great wires, there's bull sharks.
They're all out there. And she said even when there
is like you know, aerial footage with surfers, she said,
(07:37):
the surfers are there and they can't even see the
sharks are underneath them. I'm like, no fucking way, but
no chance.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
What is the mentality there that I'm just going to
take my chances?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, because I think chances, mate, you've got more. The
odds are very very slim, Like you, going out and
driving is much more dangerous than going into the water.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yes, but not every car want to eat me.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, I know, but I mean no, no.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It's not. It's totally different. That's totally it is.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Totally And I'm under like I almost want to get
hypnotized to be okay in the water because it's so
I'm so debilitated with my fear of sharks that I
can't go out and I'm not just liberated in the water.
So that's why I go either need length deep or
up to my belly button and dunk under.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
From there, go swim laps in a pool if you
want to swim. I feel like the beach is for
like a little frolic, it's not for swimming. Pool is
for swimming. You swim laps in a pool. The ocean
you just you know.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Bunk your feed in on the shore.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
That's a terrible story. I loved it. Yeah, And is
he still alive.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
He must be, because he's just really it was recently
in the newspaper on the online, so he might.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That's terrible. That's oh no, I was going to say,
that's worse than the Titanic. I probably shouldn't say it,
but apparently the water of the Titanic like that night water.
There's a museum you can go to and they've got
like a bucket that's got and people can't keep their
hands in there for longer than a certain time because
you know, when something is so cold it burnst. Yeah,
(09:15):
that's terrible. I never would have even considered I wouldn't
have considered the pain of that. I feel like you
were burning almost.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's port side, port side, starboard side, port side.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Can I tell you how I know that? I was
looking up origins of words. Now I don't think this
is actually verified, but it was talking about how the
word posh came to be, and it was apparently when
rich people would go on ships, right like imagine the Titanic. Yes,
that the it was the acronym the people that were wealthy.
(09:49):
The port side is the left side, so imagine like
that when you get on the ship, the port side's
the left side, and then when you're coming home it's
on the right side or something. But posh was an
acronym for port side out. So they're rooms, the rich
passengers rooms on the way out, it was they were
port side, so facing out that way, and then starboard
(10:13):
home so they had the best view both ways. So
it was p O s H port side out, starboard home.
So each time side out that's PSO no no, no
ports well, port side out port side is one word, okay,
p O port side out. That's where their room was,
(10:36):
like on the port side, so they had the best view, okay.
And then starboard home because you think if it's going
one direction, it's on the left.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, anyway, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah right, yeah, that's still confusing. All right.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Thank you everyone for listening to our Lucky Dip. We
love hearing from your Show and Tell podcasts. On Instagram
is where you can find us. We have a Patreon
where we do an extra episode every.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Over there, it's patreon dot com forward slash Show and
Tell online if you want to grab one of those.
But we'll be back soon.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Bye, love you,
It's Lucky Dip time. Lucky Dip time, our little podcast
where we tell you something we chat shared. It might
be a story or a conversation that was shit, so
so sorry I have to tell you. Do we stop
and do it again?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
No, we all have off days.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It was an off day. It was enough day. But
thanks for being honest. That's all right, friendship, it is Melamonte.
Thanks for joining us, our little bite size podcast for you,
a little lucky dip where we choose something at random
to talk about. I've got a story and this is
kind of normally your domain mail where you get a
(00:45):
story and tell us. But I saw this and it
fascinated me. So sit back and relax because I've got
a little story for you. Yes, it's not a good story,
by the way, even better, even better. Yeah, okay. So
this was in nineteen forty five, right, There was a
huge American ship that raced across the Pacific with parts
(01:06):
of an atomic bomb. So it was wartime, and they
had parts of an atomic bomb in the ship that
they were trying to get from A to B.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
But at midnight on June thirtieth, nineteen forty five, two
torpedoes destroyed that mission. It was a Japanese submarine and
the first torpedo bleuw of half of the ship starboard
side or whatever it is. I got my boat license
years and years ago, and I still don't know starboard
or what's the other one?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Wait? Wait, wait, yeah, can you repeat what you just said?
Your fucking what? Yep?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
My boat license because my dad had a jet ski.
So there's the boaters and the jet skiers. I was
on the bogan side.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You have a boat license.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It expired, but I did.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
This reminds me of the time that you dropped in
a conversation, oh back when I did interpretive dance.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Mate, I'm a mixed bag. You never know what you're
going to get.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I thought I knew everything. I know it see that.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
This is one of those things where it's a nice
surprise when you think, story about everyone, everything about me.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's starboard and what is it? Starbars? Because I read
something the other day. Hang on it.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You won't be listening to my story. You're just sorry.
Keep going anyway. So one side of the boat was
completely destroyed on this mission by the first torpedo, and
then the second one hit it and it started a
huge fire, and within twelve minutes the ship was on
the bottom of the ocean. Right. So of the one thousand,
one hundred and ninety six men on board shit I know, hideous,
(02:47):
around nine hundred of them made it into the water alive.
But the nightmare had not yet begun.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So at sunrise, the survivors clustered in groups, trying to
stay warm and give each other hope that they were
going to get through this chaos. A few had rafts,
but there were no life jackets, like this was a
long time ago. I think there was maybe a few
life jackets, but they just weren't working properly. So these
men are just there like treading water, like Grade six
star where you had to jump into the pool with
(03:17):
all your clothes on, remember.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Anyway, the sun was beating down, they started to hallucinate
from the heat and the thirst, and then the sharks came. No, yes,
first they closed in on the dead bodies, and then
they started turning on the living. So a survivor of this,
(03:41):
Leon Deane Cox, told the BBC. Yeah, imagine how Leon's
been through.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
He told the BBC. Every now and then, like lightning,
a shark would come straight up and grab a sailor
and drag him down. Fuck that one took a sailor
next to him. He said. It was constant screen yelling
or getting hit. And then the men would start to
drink the sea water because they'd been out there so long,
so they'd go crazy, and then they'd scramble and like
(04:11):
you know when you're hallucinating, sometimes they'd grab the man
next to them and drag them down. So it was
just carnage between the drinking of the salt water, the
men going crazy, and the end was circling sharks.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And hang on there in the middle of the ocean.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Here the middle of the Pacific Ocean. So none of
the SOS signals went out. When it sunk like they
activated the SOS signals, but no one acted on them,
and then no one noticed when it failed to reach
its destination either. The only way that they were found
was a navy plane flew over them four days later.
(04:46):
No spotted them and then sent help out for them.
So of the nine hundred men who ended up in
the water, three hundred and sixteen of them survived. One
hundred and fifty of them were eaten by shark.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I know the instinct is to survive, right, and I
know that whatever. Whenever you're in a situation like that,
you say like, oh, you know, i'd give up, but
your body probably wouldn't let your human nature is you
just like that's when you go through hectic trauma and
stuff like that. There's something in you that makes you
(05:22):
just keep going. But I hear that, and I'm like, oh,
I would. I would sort of concede, like I would
swim to the shark to just get it over picker,
you know, because you know what it's like. I think
about when I was a kid and we used to
play Tiggy playing Tiggy. Yeah, we all know, I'm not
the sportiest girl around. When the chase began and they
(05:44):
would be running after me, I'd sort of stop. I'd
just go, Okay, that's so annoying because I just I
was I couldn't deal with the anxiety of the pursuit.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yes, yes see, I think when I think of this story,
I think, oh, the hallucinating and every to me would
feel so revolting. I'd get a migraine. I would just
let myself drown. I'd stop kicking.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I don't think you could let yourself drive.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I don't think you can let yourself I.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Don't think you could. Just your body would be screaming
to you. You could, you'd keep coming up, wouldn't you?
So you'd just live out, have to live out the hell. God,
some people he's been through some stuff, like Leon lived
through that, as did three hundred and sixteen other men.
That is the worst. It's like the worst nightmare scenario ever.
(06:31):
It's And how hungry were those sharks?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Well, I mean would be on a feeding frenzy. But
it's one of the motivators behind the movie Jaws, like
apparently one of his Yeah, one of his big speeches
in the movie Jaws, I think references it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Almost that is horrible, isn't horrible? The ocean is terrifying.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I think I saw a shark the other day when
I was doing one of my daily dips. I said
to I showed Sam the sight like it was over
a meter, and I said to Sam, I don't think
a fish is that big. You know, when the waves
come up and you could I could see something black
data clock across in the wave, like out about twenty meters.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
How far out are you going, No, I'm not very
far at all.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I barely I go up to my belly button. Oh,
and then I don't from there because I'm so scared
of sharks. But my our babysitters a mad surfer, and
she said, you would be shocked how many sharks are
out there. She's like, if you looked at the satellite
of it, She's like, there's great wires, there's bull sharks.
They're all out there. And she said even when there
is like you know, aerial footage with surfers, she said,
(07:37):
the surfers are there and they can't even see the
sharks are underneath them. I'm like, no fucking way, but
no chance.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
What is the mentality there that I'm just going to
take my chances?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, because I think chances, mate, you've got more. The
odds are very very slim, Like you, going out and
driving is much more dangerous than going into the water.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yes, but not every car want to eat me.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, I know, but I mean no, no.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It's not. It's totally different. That's totally it is.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Totally And I'm under like I almost want to get
hypnotized to be okay in the water because it's so
I'm so debilitated with my fear of sharks that I
can't go out and I'm not just liberated in the water.
So that's why I go either need length deep or
up to my belly button and dunk under.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
From there, go swim laps in a pool if you
want to swim. I feel like the beach is for
like a little frolic, it's not for swimming. Pool is
for swimming. You swim laps in a pool. The ocean
you just you know.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Bunk your feed in on the shore.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
That's a terrible story. I loved it. Yeah, And is
he still alive.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
He must be, because he's just really it was recently
in the newspaper on the online, so he might.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That's terrible. That's oh no, I was going to say,
that's worse than the Titanic. I probably shouldn't say it,
but apparently the water of the Titanic like that night water.
There's a museum you can go to and they've got
like a bucket that's got and people can't keep their
hands in there for longer than a certain time because
you know, when something is so cold it burnst. Yeah,
(09:15):
that's terrible. I never would have even considered I wouldn't
have considered the pain of that. I feel like you
were burning almost.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's port side, port side, starboard side, port side.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Can I tell you how I know that? I was
looking up origins of words. Now I don't think this
is actually verified, but it was talking about how the
word posh came to be, and it was apparently when
rich people would go on ships, right like imagine the Titanic. Yes,
that the it was the acronym the people that were wealthy.
(09:49):
The port side is the left side, so imagine like
that when you get on the ship, the port side's
the left side, and then when you're coming home it's
on the right side or something. But posh was an
acronym for port side out. So they're rooms, the rich
passengers rooms on the way out, it was they were
port side, so facing out that way, and then starboard
(10:13):
home so they had the best view both ways. So
it was p O s H port side out, starboard home.
So each time side out that's PSO no no, no
ports well, port side out port side is one word, okay,
p O port side out. That's where their room was,
(10:36):
like on the port side, so they had the best view, okay.
And then starboard home because you think if it's going
one direction, it's on the left.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, anyway, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah right, yeah, that's still confusing. All right.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Thank you everyone for listening to our Lucky Dip. We
love hearing from your Show and Tell podcasts. On Instagram
is where you can find us. We have a Patreon
where we do an extra episode every.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Over there, it's patreon dot com forward slash Show and
Tell online if you want to grab one of those.
But we'll be back soon.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Bye, love you,
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