Unexplained Islands: 5 Unsolved Island Mysteries
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2023
- On a February morning in 1979, beneath a sky so clear it seemed to merge with the sea, a routine fishing expedition off the coast of Maui morphed into a bewildering saga that would haunt maritime lore for decades to come.
The vessel at the heart of this mystery was the Sarah Joe, a modest 17-foot Boston Whaler. With her petite frame and humble outboard engine, she was hardly a match for the mercurial moods of the vast Pacific-more suited for a tranquil bay than the unpredictable open waters.
Her crew consisted of five friends, and the sea was perfectly calm when she cast off from the Hawaiian island of Maui. Family members recalled that "it was a perfect, beautiful morning" and that "the sea looked like a lake."
As experienced boaters, the crew had not checked weather reports; instead, they kept an eye on the horizon and trusted their senses. However, within two hours, a dramatically and abruptly violent wind had rolled in.
That afternoon, as even much larger vessels struggled back to port, waves reached perilous heights of more than 40 feet.
An exhaustive search ensued, stretching over 70,000 square miles of a seemingly indifferent ocean. For five days, the coastline revealed nothing; the community rallied, hearts heavy, spirits defiant, but the men had seemingly vanished into the watery abyss.
Driven by hope, the families extended the search for three additional weeks, desperate eyes scanning the smaller nearby islands for any trace of their loved ones. But the Sarah Joe remained lost, her tale untold. Or so it seemed...
“As experienced boaters, the crew wouldn’t check weather reports.”
These two things are at odds with eachother
I thought I misunderstood what he said, but guess not. 😅
Lol, being well informed makes you less of a man, apparently.
@@taetannim3581 you don't need weather reports when you've been on the sea all your life. The weather man isn't always correct.
i feel like youre the only "top5/top10s" channels that has stayed interesting for the past decade
"As experienced boaters they didn't check weather reports" that sounds like inexperienced ''boaters", someone who knew what they were doing wouldn't have taken that boat out and would have 100% checked the weather reports...
that sounded like a sarcastic jab tbh
@@robertsurratt2758 Its Dark 5 there is no such thing as satire in these videos, they cover ghosts and alien abduction like its fact. I love the content but its all non-sense :D
They were clearly ignorant. With an overloaded boat
@@TheGreyGhost_of43rd you're speculating. Experienced boaters don't need a weather man telling them the weather.
Thanks for bringing back the intro :)
Just in time for my 15 minute lunch break!! Perfect!
Hurry up and eat!
“As experienced boaters the 5 men didn’t check weather reports”
Ummm , nobody’s that experienced
definitely overly sensationalized
Yes they are do you think they had the weather channel in 1812? or how about 1715.
@@catrionasloanei6847 and how many ships routinely went missing back before the weather channel? Wanna guess why?
they licked their fingers and put them to the wind for a second and believed they were gonna be fine.
Not even a mention of Gilligans Island - lol
The greatest mystery.
Or Craggy Island....
Or the elusive Thousand Island
Communist Island?
Indeed 🥺
That "disappeared" island has rung my curiousity bell! Great show!! \m/
Sat on a Tectonic plate Fault line.
Give Japan 2 Centuries and it'll disappear aswell
Is it possible to erase an island with an atomic bomb? Is this even a plausible theory?
@@SniffHeinkel In My Opinion......No
Atoll Islands are still on the Map after Testing.
Ever doesn’t get interestederly; neverytime I wait for result. Will wait more or less. Please confirm whicher?
@@SniffHeinkel not even remotely plausible. And even if it were, which it isn't, it's detonation would have been detected, so we'd know about it.
Never change the into music please
Never should've changed the music + no narration.... the older videos kept you engaged
Best Intro on the internet! 👍🏻🇺🇲
God I wish the History Channel would give you a TV series.
You're so much better then anything on.
No they'd ruin it
The history channel is not about history anymore
I concur 🤔
Lol I don't understand people who are all 'TV should give you a show' or 'You should have a show on Netflix'. They already have a show and it's on UA-cam to watch for free
If you have a 17ft boat please check the forecast before you go out to make sure there isn’t a small craft warning or worse. Experienced boaters only get caught by surprise when meteorologists do too.
This is just what I needed today!
Thats it, I'm buying a Boston Whaler.
Depends on the year of the Boston Whaler, they are foam filled . So they are pretty hard to sink, even if broken in half.
Right, you can see the foam hull.
I was gonna say a Boston Whaler isn’t a “flimsy” vessel
Another awesome video! Keep up the outstanding work!
Your narration flows so well.
As always, fantastic video.
Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing!
First heard of Gruinard, the "anthrax island", many years ago when I was a boy, in a book about some of the more unusual approaches taken during WWII. Terrifying to think that times were so desperate this was even considered as a possible weapon, thank goodness it never had to be deployed. When I read of it as a kid, the island was still strictly forbidden territory because of the contamination from decades before. History casts a long shadow
Look up operation cherry blossoms at night by the Japanese.
Happy to see the intro has returned ☺️
Have you not seen the Boston whaler demo?
They cut the bow off with a chainsaw, in front of the console. The guy with the chainsaw floats away on the bow, while the captain drives off in the other half.
The Whaler iberglass foam hulls don't sink when filled with water if the heavy motor is removed.
Thank you!!!!!! For bringing back the intro!!! You just regained your subscriber 👍🏻
What about the mystery of _Love Island?_ Specifically *why* people keep watching that crap.
😂
What an incredible channel. Such good content.
Boston Whaler is not a "flimsy little boat." Seventeen feet is little; but Boston Whaler is well respected for quality and value. They have a foam core hull design which is more expensive to build. But it means it will float even when it's full of water. They could have drifted for days clinging to an upside down boat and eventually washed ashore. Who knows? I wonder how many survived and for how long?
Sounds like Gillian's island lol
Common boat
Not only that but it's not really a "mystery" as to who buried the dude. Obviously more than one guy made it to the island, and the one (or possibly more) who was still alive when the first guy died buried him. My guess is only 2 made it to the island. When the 1st guy died he was buried, but since the 2nd dude was the last one, his body laid where he died, and therefore was more subject to being scavenged, dispersed by the elements, etc. Therefore there is no trace of the body.
Even if there were more than 2 who made it to the island, there are still multiple plausible explanations. Maybe there were 2 or 3 left but they were all in a fairly equal state of weakness and did not have the strength to bury the others and died within days of each other. Or maybe they were searching for food in the lagoon and drown. Or were attacked by a reef shark. Or maybe after losing multiple people the remaining survivors became disillusioned and didn't care anymore. Or maybe some combination of those or something else I'm not thinking of. It's a deserted tropical island, there's literally hundreds of ways they could have died without a trace. Whatever way, it's not that complicated or hard to piece together. Not really a mystery.
@@jojojiles You wrote a whole lot of nothing. Classed as a mystery. why cause we don't know what happened. Never solved.
It was tiny. With 5 men in it 😂 no matter the quality, it's on them for taking it out
The last island mystery is even deeper. There’s a lot filled out by the senior keeper that made things sound really crazy. If you get a chance, check it out further .
Thank you!
@@goofballbiscuits3647 my pleasure.
The crazy log entries didn't exist. They were added to the story over the years as the legend grew.
@silrana37 this is always how these things go...
@@goofballbiscuits3647 Oh, yes. I have a personal rule that if a mystery includes certain things like half-eaten food on the table, there is an extremely high chance that it's been embellished along the way.
Absolutely fascinating video, I am captivated by the Maritime lore. The mystery of the Sarah Joe is intriguing, your narration provides such in-depth insight that leaves me eagerly anticipating more! Can't wait for the next video. Keep up the great work!
Good video D5 👍👍
An experienced crew that didn't check the weather report eh...hmmm. that would seem like a rookie mistake. Just sayin.
Complacency. Even the best can fall victim to it.
Got to watch this video in bed nice and cosy in the dark ,just bliss ,,KUTGW
Excellent writing for the narration, my friend :)
I always love the intro.
Glad you brought back that cool intro tune. 😏
Dark5 through the years has left an imprinted archipelago on my being.
that isn't as deep as you think it is
@@IAmTheDawn 😂
FYI Boston whalers are anything but flimsy.
First, love your videos
Quite a few mentions of my bonny scotland. Well at times not so bonny. But alas still nice to hear you mentioning tales of scotland and scottish sea farers
The intro! 🎉🥳
Phenomenal last words for this video. Fantastic way to end this one.
So is there any record of a ship landing on Bermejo Island? Has anyone actually visited it? Or is it a ghost, created by mapmakers copying other mapmakers, the earliest not being very reliable?
It's amazing how many historic errors still appear on modern maps. Seems to be less of a problem since Google Earth became a thing though.
🤔 wasnt specified
@@jenniferbrewer5370 Even then, I think there have still been anomalies with google maps. I don't have an exact source for that, but I have some vague memories from early morning surfing 😃
@llywrch7116 It's not clear whether anyone ever landed on Bermeja, but apparently British maps reported it as sunk to a depth of 110m around 1844, and it was not found in surveys from 1997 or 2008. Ultimately, it puts to question whether the island was ever there
Dark channels upload the best videos
Nice departure from the usual fare.
Lol yeah, way to pivot away from gross historical inaccuracies that everyone catches easily 😅
The intro is BACK!
Yay the intro music is back!
Interesting fact, during WW2 the British also tested Anthrax in Wales. They fired shells from Pembray to the marsh's at Penclawd.
You can’t make me come back Sarah, I won’t accept what you did. Watching you do those things, I can’t forget what I saw that day.
I love Dark 5 series for the interesting topics but I haven't seen an episode about sea creatures. I had a unexplained incidents of a creature that catapulted outta the ocea and onto the ships sponson. I didn't see it but I heard it land and I estimated to be approximately 8' to 9' weighing appropriately 500 to 600lbs.... I remain SHOCKED to THIS day in time.
Wasn't there a Sand Island somewhere between Australia and Easter Island that went missing?
Yes, but I think that has been explained by a fault in chart making.
I’ve heard the last story before. The wave theory is the only one that really makes sense.
Yeah, I'm guessing they were hit with a rouge wave
Love abit of Dark5 on a Sunday Lunch time in England 🇬🇧
If the US had erased an island off the map with a hydrogen bomb, radioisotopes would still be present. Radioisotopes leave a distinct fingerprint. Not only can you trace the bomb to the country of origin, but also the particular reactor in said country. The other problem is that your likely to be caught. Hydrogen bomb explosions tend to draw attention. Something else is going on here.
My guess it got eroded away.
Plus an explosion that large would have been detected by seismographs for a huge distance all around.
You can’t explode a nuclear weapon anywhere without many things being detected. It’s not possible to do it in secret.
My military grandfather once said you be surprised what we built back then, even more surprised by the things we made disappear..
@@rr85Your grandfather sunk the island. lol
They were going to use their senses to predict weather? Yeah what happened is exactly what should have happened.
YES INTRO
The intro 🥰
This is alot easier to listen to at 0.75 speed. Great video though, thanks.
New here & just sub’d 👍. Fascinating content 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
The Isle Royale/Lake Superior Anomaly sent me. 🔺
Love your content 🎉
Nobody cares who's first!😂
It's all they have in life man, don't take it away from them 😂
Nice story...just a story
The proper intro is good
The Bermaja island one is a fascinating one, but I don't buy the "blown up" theory. That would have been not only noticed, but also have left clear traces.
Not to mention, by the time it disappeared, we had signed several atomic test treaties with the USSR. If there was even a hint of a possible nuclear explosion, they would've been up in arms. And any conventional explosion big enough to wipe out an island would at least show up on seismographs
@@kenshin891 There is no way it could have been hidden.
Why don’t men wear huge moustache’s like that? I like it
There were special tea cups that had a mustache guard, as for the man not to get his mustache wet when drinking his tea...this was during the Victorian era...
Bermejo island was just a mapping error. It happened back in the days before satellites. Theres no way an island was completly wiped off the planet, do you understand how hard it would be to get rid of an island, especially back then
The missing island is easy to explain. It was an intentional mistake to catch plagiarizers. This was common for cartographers at the time.
LOL @ the idea anyone, like the CIA, could destroy an entire island. This did happen once at the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. But that natural explosion made even the biggest thermonuclear bomb look like those bang snap fireworks. It turned the sky red worldwide for days, made the coming winter colder through a minor nuclear winter, was heard thousands of miles away hours later when the found got there, and the shockwave circled the entire planet multiple times. It STILL didn't completely destroy the small island. There is absolutely no way anyone could blow up an entire island without EVERYONE knowing.
Sarah Joe, since she was a 17' Boston whaler, was unsinkable. Boston Whaler stands by their claim, as the hull is filled with material similar to Styrofoam and even with holes cut in the bottom and swamped the boat will stay afloat. The engine was probably dumped when fuel was gone. But the mystery remains. Who buried that one man?
That 17 foot wailer ended up like the minow in Giligans Island.
Gilligan's Island copied Marxism...just a little tidbit here...
Boston Whaler “flimsy?” Overloaded yes.
I know from experience Boston Whalers do not sink
Alcohol may have played a hand.
A 17ft WHALER???
WHAT WHALES ARE THEY HUNTING?!
Who else is watching this while they at work?👨🏾🔧
At work, on the can. Company time. :)
@@josepimann7384 lol! enjoy!
Dark 5 island
The island is still there, America developed a stealth cloaking device and this was the first application. This will be questioned but when exposed , amazing. Elvis, and several other people will be found playing cards, domino's, washers and much more...
There’s another island mystery, there was a dude named Gilligan and there was an island.
I’m assuming you didn’t cover it since tv covered it.
Vermeja island... Could the possibility be that the oil drillers just went under the island and remove the material causing the island to slowly sink... I mean a hydrovac hose could suck the material and shoot it on the gulf floor...Then no one would notice.... A bomb would be noticed... But litteraly moving the island using the equipment thats already there and designed to do that very thing seems more feasible an idea... Just saying
K. I. S. S.
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Make a video of the Port Orford meteorite in Oregon is a good mystery
He has already done it
Mankind have sinister motives 😢😮
There’s no way America set off a nuke without 1000 different satellites picking up on it.
The lighthouse keepers disappearance is dramatised in a film called "The Vanishing". Very atmospheric and suspenseful - well worth a watch.
"Clear sky at morning... sailors take warning"
I miss the old dark5 music
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Islands don't disappear because of rising sea levels.
For Bermeja, I'd go with mundane: never existing and being yet another error on the map.
The estimated value of the Treasure of Lima pales in comparison to the billions spent monthly on UKR....
I'd look for Bermeja in the Colon. Have you seen what you can get in there?!?
Not sure I could fit a whole island in there... 😲
So people think you can nuke a island without anyone noticing during or after?
5 people on a little Boston whaler 😂
"groon-yard"
5 grown men on a 17ft Boston Whaler? Seems more than a little overloaded.
Way overloaded! They had no business being out on the ocean in a boat that small. I've got a 17 footer and it's better for small lakes and rivers, not the open sea.
Ya if you have never been on a deep sea fishing excursions they sometimea criminally overload them. To the point that they have laws against it after some drunk college students did one but managed to lose a person over board and not even notice till they got back.
Thats what i thought, i had a 17 whaler on a calm day you could run it into the ocean comfortably but if you know what your doing on one you could take it anywhere
A 17 foot boat cant fit 5 people...or 5 men? Party boats do more with less.
Broncos guru has seen worse
They give and take away.
Think big.
a 3 hour tore
When someone finds an island, especially loaded with oil, and the American government finds out you can guarantee that it'll disappear one way or another.
Yes and the someone who found it will probably disappear also.
Hi
What about Gilligan's Island?
It survived because it was a Boston whaler and is full of foam.