If they had not disposed of the garbage, would they have: been somewhere else? Done something else? Die for certain? Was the garbage dangerous? Were they working together at disposing garbage? Was it their job? did they get paid for it? Was it their garbage? Relevant how it was disposed of? Or where? Was it being dumped? Compacted? Burned? Relevant what the garbage was? Or can we assume household waste?

If they had not disposed of the garbage, would they have: been somewhere else? Done something else? Die for certain? Yes. Was the garbage dangerous? Like hazardous waste? No. Were they working together at disposing garbage? Yes. Was it their job? No. did they get paid for it? No. Was it their garbage? Yes. Relevant how it was disposed of? Yes. Or where? Yes. Was it being dumped? Yes. Compacted? No. Burned? No. Relevant what the garbage was? Possibly. Or can we assume household waste? Yesish.

Was the boat a barge? Were they set adrift on a garbage barge? With the intention of killing them? Did they dump the garbage in the sea? Yes. Did the garbage attract fish they could eat? No to the rest.

Are they more than: 50? 10? 50? 500? 2000? Is the boatish made for transporting garbarge? Are they dumping the garbage in order to save their lives? Or did they dump it for some other reason, and it led to their lives being saved? War relevant? did they create the garbage? Has there been a disaster? Is the boatish thing part of a boat? Is it wreckage? A raft?

Are they more than: 50? This. 10? 50? 500? 2000? Is the boatish made for transporting garbarge? No. Are they dumping the garbage in order to save their lives? Yes. Or did they dump it for some other reason, and it led to their lives being saved? No. War relevant? Yes. did they create the garbage? Yes. Has there been a disaster? Is the boatish thing part of a boat? Is it wreckage? A raft? No to the rest.

Was the garbage used as a decoy? Yes. Ruse? Yes. Are they on a sub? Yes. Would their boatish have been destroyed by the enemy otherwise? Yes. Were they being chased? Fired at? Bombed? Torpedoed?

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A common tactic for subs that were depthcharged was to launch garbage through an empty torpedo tube -- papers and debris, leaking oil, or even the occasional dead crewmember. When this wreckage reached the surface, it sometimes (but not always!) fooled the enemy into thinking he had sunk the boat and breaking off his attack.

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