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Speaker 1: Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard McClane Smith, where

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Speaker 1: for the weeks in between episodes, we look at stories

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Speaker 1: and ideas that, for one reason or other, didn't make

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Speaker 1: it into the previous show. In last week's episode, The

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Speaker 1: Silence of the Sea, we found the ghost ship Mary

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Speaker 1: Celeste adrift on the Atlantic Ocean. Over the years, many

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Speaker 1: theories have been put forward to explain what happened to

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Speaker 1: the ship's ten crew and passengers. Today, despite the many

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Speaker 1: other worldly explanations, the most popular theories tend to revolve

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Speaker 1: It's been speculated that leaking vapors from the dnatured alcohol

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Speaker 1: in the ship's hold might have scared Captain Briggs into

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Speaker 1: thinking the vessel was about to explode. Terrified by the

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Speaker 1: prospect of imminent catastrophe, the passengers may have taken to

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Speaker 1: the lifeboat in a panic, only to later sink under

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Speaker 1: difficult conditions. Others have suggested that the vapors may even

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Speaker 1: have caught fire at some point, but since only the

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Speaker 1: gas would have been burned off, no evidence remained of

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Speaker 1: anything untoward having taken place. However, it is unlikely we

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Speaker 1: will ever have a definitive explanation for what occurred, and

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Speaker 1: so the marriage Celeste is destined to remain forever adrift

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Speaker 1: on those inscrutable and unforgiving waves of maritime history. There

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Speaker 1: is something uniquely evocative and even romantic about the notion

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Speaker 1: in part to the inevitable sense of isolation that such

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Speaker 1: last episode, I was reminded of a story I heard

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Speaker 1: many years ago about the artist bass Jarn Arda, who

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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy five attempted a solo crossing of the

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Speaker 1: many artists, Arda was determined for his work to get

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Speaker 1: as close to eliminating artifice as possible, to leave only

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Speaker 1: the conflict between free will and determinism, the notion that

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Speaker 1: films depict Arda falling in different ways. Fall one Los

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Speaker 1: friends often worried about the possible consequences of his determination

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Speaker 1: For Arda, it seemed merely depicting them wasn't enough. What

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Speaker 1: approach that may well have cost him his life. Bastian

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Speaker 1: Using Arda's father's position as a Calvinist minister, Arda's parents

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Speaker 1: It is not hard to see where perhaps Arda's fascination

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Speaker 1: Though Arda had exhibited his work throughout the sixties, it

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Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy three, Arda began work on a piece

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Speaker 1: which was intended to be a triptych called in Search

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. Together, the black and white stills depict

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Speaker 1: Though some have suggested otherwise, Arda was in fact a

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Speaker 1: after a series of life threatening disasters, all of which

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, Bassian Arda accepted an offer to put

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Speaker 1: By now, the artist was deep in preparation for his trip,

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