Five friends set out on a 17-foot "unsinkable" boat in 1979, and vanished without a trace.
Despite one of the largest search efforts of its kind, no bodies, no wreckage, and no answers were ever found. It was as if the ocean had simply erased them.
Then, a decade later, the impossible happened.
Thier boat was discovered on a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands, thousands of miles from where it disappeared. Oceanographers say the drifting vessel should have arrived in just a few months, not ten years. Stranger still, reasearched had surveryed the same atoll only two years earlier and found no sign of the boat.
But the bigger mystery was a makeshift grave containting the bones of one of the missing men, raising questions that remain unanswered more than 40 years later.
How did the boat arrive after it should have? Who buried the sailor? And what really happened to the oother four men?
In this episode, we unravel the chilling mystery of the Sarah Joe, one of the Pacific Ocean's more baffling disappearances.
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