YouTuber is arrested after leaving Diet Coke on the isolated island isolated

An American tourist left alone last week on an inflatable boat for the distant island of North Sentinel in the Indian Ocean. He had wrapped a regime coke and a coconut as an offering for the very isolated tribe who saw it and had brought a GoPro camera in the hope of filming the meeting, Indian police said.

Guided by his GPS navigation, the man, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, reached the northeast shore of the island at 10 a.m. on March 29, according to the police. He scanned the earth with binoculars, but saw no one. So he climbed to the ground, left the Coke diet and the coconut, took sand samples and recorded a video, the police said.

Polyakov was arrested on March 31 on his return to Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman Islands and Nicobar, an archipelago to be over 800 miles east of the continent of India, the authorities said.

Few foreigners have gone to the island of North Sentinel, which is a territory of India and is illegal to visit. Indian government’s regulations prohibit any foreign interaction with its isolated tribe, whose members hunt with an arc and an arrow and have killed intruders to be mounted on their bank.

In 2018, an American missionary, John Allen Chau, left for the island with a Bible. He was shot dead with arcs and arrows by members of the tribe when he became on the ground, said the Indian authorities later. The fishermen who helped to take Mr. Chau to North Sentinel told the police that they had seen members of the tribe dragging his body on the beach.