This is the very mission that Quint (Robert Shaw) talked about being a member of in a famous scene from Jaws (1975).
Captain McVay was posthumously exonerated by President Bill Clinton, less than three months prior to leaving office.
On 20 August 2017, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced that a search team he led had found the wreckage of the Indianapolis two days earlier in the North Pacific at a depth of 5500 meters.
Capt. Mcvay and his father McVay Sr. are portrayed by real life father and son, Stacy Keach Sr. and Jr.