The Shipwreck Island

This is one of the first works by the great writer of science fiction Alexander Romanovich Belyaev. There is such a place in the Sargasso Sea, in which the seaweeds-sargassos are especially tightly gathered. The ships, which get into this trap, will never leave this place. They have been gathering here for centuries and now their quantity is so high that they created the whole island. People from those very wrecked ships live on this island. Can the people, leaving there, be considered dead in all the senses?...