00:00A ship vanished in the South Pacific.
00:02Weeks later, it was found drifting empty.
00:06Water had flooded the vessel, but Joyita was still afloat.
00:10The safest place may have been the ship, but the 25 people on board were never found.
00:16It left Samoa for Tokalao.
00:19A short voyage across the Pacific, but it never reached its destination.
00:24When Joyita failed to arrive, search planes crossed the ocean.
00:28They checked the route, the islands, the open water, but found nothing.
00:33Then weeks later, another ship spotted her, hundreds of miles off course,
00:38listing badly, partly flooded, and still somehow afloat.
00:43When rescuers looked closer, the life rafts were gone,
00:46and every person who had left Samoa on board was gone too.
00:51No one had stayed behind.
00:53Inside the vessel, more clues were missing.
00:56The logbook, navigation equipment, some cargo, and anything that might explain where they went.
01:04Then came the strangest details.
01:07The radio was set for distress, but its signal could barely leave the ship.
01:11The clocks had stopped, and whatever happened may have happened at night.
01:17Theories spread.
01:18Some believed the ship had started flooding.
01:21Others suspected violence or piracy.
01:24And some wondered why anyone would leave a vessel that refused to sink.
01:29Months passed.
01:30Then investigators held an inquiry.
01:33They found the ship had taken on water.
01:35They found the equipment had failed.
01:37But the disappearance still made no sense.
01:40The ship was damaged.
01:42But it was built to stay afloat.
01:44Even flooded.
01:46Joyita refused to sink.
01:48And that made the missing people harder to explain.
01:51No one could say where they went.
01:53No trace of them was found.
01:55And no one could explain the life rafts,
01:58the logbook,
01:59the radio,
02:00or why they left the ship behind.
02:02Decades later,
02:03the Joyita ghost ship remains unsolved.
02:06A ship that refused to sink was left behind.
02:09But the answer drifted away with the 25 on board.
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