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A fact from MV Joyita appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 November 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that 25 passengers and crew mysteriously disappeared from MV Joyita in 1955?

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Why is it mysterious that 25 people drowned? Baloogan 08:58, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

"had observed something the Japanese did not want them to see."

Secrets of Japanese fishing industry? very convincing.

It's considered analogous to the case of the Mary Celeste an abandoned ghost ship found off the coast of Portugal in 1872. In fact, The Joyita case is sometimes referred to as The Mary Celeste of the Pacific. I'm going to work on beefing this article up so that it is apparant that paranormal explanations for the disappearance of the passengers have been offered. It is not my intent to weight the article in any one direction, however. I'm just pointing out that this case gets people to speculating.Lisapollison 21:32, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

reference tagging - try being helpful please - there IS a reference list

I've noticed that over time, almost every asserted fact has been tagged as needing a reference despite the fact that this article contains an older style wikipedia reference section that lists the books where the facts were obtained. When references have been given, slapping fact tags all over the article isn't particularly very helpful and can be viewed as vandalism. More helpful would be for the concerned tagger to utilize Google books to find the specific page and then to convert the older style reference list into inline citations. A large number of paranormal articles such as this one were written using the older format. Please be part of the solution and not part of the problem by resisting the urge to slap up gratuitous fact tags. Utilize the existing references when possible and simply convert them to inline cites. Also, one tag at the top saying additional references are needed is preferable to 4 or 5 section tags. The readers will get the point that one or more editors think better sourcing could be done. Defacing the article with so many tags has the effect of POV pushing.LiPollis (talk) 04:40, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the article incomplete?

I can't help but notice there's a glaring omission from the article. WHERE IT IS TODAY. The history stops at the early 1960s, with it being bought by Robin Maugham. Doesn't say if he kept it to this day, sunk it, whatever. This is an incomplete article. If anyone has the required information to complete this article, please bring it forth. 76.228.67.224 (talk) 12:34, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

route

If the Joyita was supposed to spend some 48 hours travelling due north to the proper destination but was found a long way south west instead, whatever went wrong happened shortly after the vessel sailed. ie To have drifted south west meant that it had barely travelled north.

Could the vessel have sprung a leak and the passengers tried by various means to get to land?