The Unsinkable Joyita: Mystery of the Ship That Could Not Sink

In October 1955, the MV Joyita left Samoa on a routine two day voyage carrying 25 people, including a doctor and two children. Her hull was lined with cork, and everyone in the Pacific knew she physically could not sink. Five weeks later she was found drifting 600 miles off course, flooded to the rails but still afloat, with her radio tuned to the distress channel and bloodstained bandages in an open medical bag on deck. Every person aboard was gone. If they had simply stayed with the ship, every one of them would have lived. This is the full story of the Joyita: the Hollywood yacht that became the Mary Celeste of the Pacific, the indebted captain who preached that his ship could not go down, the clocks that all stopped at 10:22 at night, the hidden break in the radio aerial, and the official inquiry that ruled the fate of her people inexplicable. Told slowly and calmly, from the deep. Dim the lights, settle in, and drift with us. ⚓ New voyages every month, with extended sleep editions at the end of each month. Chapters: 0:00 The ship that could not sink 1:20 A Hollywood jewel goes to war 3:00 The voyage and the silence 4:30 Found, five weeks later 5:00 What the engine room revealed 5:30 Why they left, and the death ship after #mvjoyita #ghostship #unsolvedmysteries #maritimehistory #documentary