In this episode, Graeme Hill is joined by maritime historian John McCrystal for a gripping Shipwreck Tale from New Zealand’s wild South Westland coast. They recount the extraordinary ordeal of ten sealers abandoned on the tiny Open Bay Islands in 1810, left to survive for nearly four years after their ship, the Active, vanished without returning. What begins as a brutal but routine sealing expedition becomes a story of hunger, improvisation, failed escapes, fragile hope and remarkable endurance, and a mystery that still lingers over the fate of the missing vessel.