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I recall a PBS (I believe) documentary about a massive fire in the west loch at Pearl during WWII.
Apparently the loch was used, at that time, to store large numbers of landing craft.

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On Thu, 2/18/16, tmr0195@comcast.net <tmr0195@comcast.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Adventure in the Far Future
 To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Thursday, February 18, 2016, 5:32 PM

 Hello
 Grimmund,

  
 I could have been wrong about the sharks being tigers.
 The boat I was on was temporarily tied up on a rarely used
 area that had some remaining bit of a structure. One of
 the civilian workers told us about an ammo ship blowing up
 and then dropped in something about some type of sharks that
 liked the waters there.
  
 I was in Pearl from Mid 1976 to mid 1981 and I am
 surprised about getting part of the story right.
  
 Thank you again.
  
 Tom R

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 To: "TML"
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 Sent:
 Thursday, February 18, 2016 2:06:41 PM
 Subject: Re: [TML] Adventure in the Far
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 On Thu, Feb 18, 2016
 at 2:59 PM, <tmr0195@comcast.net>
 wrote:

 Thank you Grimmund for confirming I was not told a sea
 story, can you also confirm the other part that tiger sharks
 like the spot too?;-)

 Tom R

 West Loch?

 I don't know about tigers. 
 Hammerheads spawn in Kane'ohe Bay, but that's on the
 other side of the island, north and a little east.  Pearl
 is down on the south-west side.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Loch_disaster  (May
 44)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster (July
 44)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Mount_Hood_(AE-11) (November
 44)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Serpens_(AK-97)  (January
 45)

 There is some association of tiger sharks with the
 sinking of the Indianapolis:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)

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