 From that date, Dutch sailors shifted their choice to Rade des Tortues as a harbor.In 1615, the shipwreck and death of governor Pieter Both, who was coming back from India with four richly laden ships in the bay, led Dutch sailors to consider the route as cursed, and they tried to avoid it as much as possible.In the meantime, the British and the Danes were beginning to make incursions into the Indian Ocean.