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In August 2006, the crew of the yacht Maiken, sailing out of the Vava'u island group, encountered a remarkable stone sea. The phenomena they spotted were a series of pumice rafts resulting from a nearby eruption, one that was forming a new volcanic island in Tonga: As Maiken crewmember Håkan Larsson reported in his blog entry for that day: Alas, the island didn't last very long. By the time volcanologist Scott Bryan of London's Kingston University managed to get out to the area a few months later to see it for himself, it was nearly completely washed away, leaving only the lingering scent of sulfur — a clue that magma was still cooling inside. A rehash of this item was run under the clickbait headline When This Boat Crew Realized What They Were Seeing, It Was Almost Too Late to Escape and falsely suggested that the Maiken's crew barely escaped death while viewing the eruption (from a safe distance):
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