Stranded

The ocean freighter Delaware is on its way to New Zealand when it is shipwrecked at night in a violent tropical storm. The vessel is gouged and grounded on a rocky reef of a nearby island. The passengers and crew have to abandon and make their way to a nearby beach. Having reached the sandy shore the stranded people set up a makeshift camp. Captain Diesel Becker rescues his charts from the stricken freighter and discovers that the island did not officially exist. He keeps this discovery to himself. He gathers the castaways around and organises them into functioning groups to make use of their skills. The forty plus castaways soon discovered that in order to survive they had to work together and overcome their racial and religious prejudices.
As they explore their new home it becomes obvious to the shipwrecked folk that things are not as they first seemed. A mysterious stranger called William turned up at the camp and gave the captain a map of the island, which he called Izzania. The main priority for the castaways was to find a source of fresh water. Alexei Nobikov set off on his own to find water. He eventually came to a waterfall that ran into a creek. Then he saw something on the other side of the creek. It was a strange fearsome creature that had the body of an ape and the head of a lion. The beast went back into the forest and Alexei thought he had imagined it.
The next day William turned up at the waterhole with the strange beast in tow. The Stranger took take Alexei to an huge enclosure with standing stones around the perimeter. William turned out to be a scientist working for Staxis, a company carrying out secret research for DARPA. He was abandoned on Izzania 15 years before when all the other Staxis personnel evacuated. William took Alexei to an underground research facility, which somehow generated its own power.
Meanwhile, another castaway called Skate Hunter found the same source of fresh water and the other stranded people relocated and and set up a new camp nearby. As the shipwrecked people set up the new camp, Julie Andrews, one of the castaways is found murdered. Xavier Wood, an amateur detective, took on the case to find Julie's killer. He discovered she had a friend called Sonya Norris but when he went to question her she was nowhere to be found. The castaways became excited as they saw a helicopter flying overhead. They waved and yelled, trying to get the pilot's attention. But to no avail.
Sonya Norris, a CIA agent, lands at the Staxis facility and tells William she has come to wrap things up and get rid of any loose ends. Alexei was one such loose end. She also has to deal with the monstrous results of the Staxis experiments.
As the castaways discovered more about their new life they had to deal with wild beasts, pirates and the CIA agent who came to the island to carry out Staxis' unfinished business. As if this was not enough for the castaways to deal with a volcano in the centre of the island was ready to erupt. So the castaways headed to the Staxis underground research centre where they think they will be safe.