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They used bunker oil it's an extremely dense oil. You should read Halsey's Typhoon it's incredible what those men went through. President Gerald Ford was almost washed overboard during it, he was saved by catching the lip of the flight deck with the tips of his toes.
As for your recurring nightmare, Descent into Darkness is a memoir about a US Navy salvage diver in Pearl Harbor. They found men who had survived for weeks in air pockets but died before they could be rescued... they found the dates scratched into the bulkhead. I personally would take the sudden sinking rather than being trapped and hearing salvage divers constantly passing you for weeks before finally dying alone in the cold darkness.
There's a really interesting book about the impact of the two major typhoons that hit the U.S. Navy during WWII called Halsey's Typhoon. Good read IMO.