“...suggests that most of the crew on board survived the wreck or died at sea.”
Or were abducted by aliens, eaten by cannibals, turned into vampires and still move among us, or gosh we really just don’t know.
You don’t want to survive a wreck there. Drowning is quick. Slowly dying of dehydration and exposure in the desert sun is worse.
It’s called the Skeleton Coast for a reason.