Duiker Island

About this audio guide

This guide to Duiker Island in Cape Town traces the sinking of the charter boat Miroshga, which capsized in the channel to this seal colony on October 13, 2012, with thirty-eight people aboard. It follows deckhand John Roberts, whose routine job was ferrying tourists out to watch the seals, and the mechanical failures and licensing lapses aboard the boat that afternoon. Best heard on the same crossing the charter boats still make today, past the same crowded rocks.