Abandoned for 15 Years: The Shipwreck Survivors of Tromelin Island | E 264

Podcast: The Crux True Survival Stories · The Crux True Survival Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-09-14

On the night of July 31, 1761, the L'Utile struck a reef off a nameless sandbar in the Indian Ocean with 160 Malagasy people locked below deck. What happened over the next two months — who got water, who did the work, and who was standing on the beach when the boat sailed away — is documented in agonizing detail by the man who kept the ship's log. What happened over the next fifteen years is not documented at all. Nobody left behind on that island could write, and nobody came back to ask. Everything we know about how they survived on one square mile of s...