The Acali Expedition
What happens when isolation breeds conflict?
4.1 (27)
52 mins
Explore Santiago Genovés’s social experiment that placed eleven men and women on a small raft drifting across the Atlantic. Discover how the researcher intentionally designed high-stress conditions to study human violence, sexual dynamics, and conflict. Learn about the unexpected group solidarity that emerged when the subjects turned against their orchestrator instead of each other.
Ep 1:
Building a Machine for Chaos
A haunted anthropologist, shaped by war and hijackings, designs a brutal floating experiment meant to prove humans are savages waiting to snap.
Ep 2:
Eleven Strangers, One Slave Contract
Eleven strangers sign away their autonomy and drift into the Atlantic aboard the Acali, unaware their scientist creator has already decided their fate.
Ep 3:
The Scientist Who Became the Threat
As bonding replaces the predicted chaos, Genovese turns saboteur—spreading lies and seizing command, pushing his crew toward mutiny and murder.
Ep 4:
The Failed Experiment That Proved Everything
Landfall brings a broken scientist, a lopsided debriefing, and a stunning twist: the raft built to prove violence instead revealed humanity's true nature.
Discussions (5)
Avery
Level 9 · 3 weeks agoThe part about the crew bonding instead of breaking hit me. You put people in a tough spot together and they almost always find community first. Seen it happen so many times, stress builds people up not just breaks them down.
Brooke
Level 5 · 3 weeks agoSantiago built a floating chaos machine, got 11 strangers to bond like a book club, and the only feral animal aboard was him hiding the ax after a fish dinner.
Nellie
Level 10 · 3 weeks agoSo Edna had TWO situationships on the raft and Genovese never found out because Faye and Mary were literally running lookout duty. The man designed the whole thing to catch this and still missed it completely.
