Re: Would you survive?
Well now... if zombies could spread their... zombiness... to other organisms, like dogs, cats, mice, fish, birds and so on, we're truly fucked no matter what we do. How are you going to avoid the zombie flies and zombie micro-organisms? Ya can't. You're fucked. The minute you get the zombie flu it's game over, man, game over.
The second prevalent issue is zombie putrefication. Zombies are classified as undead and normally portrayed as decaying, shambling beings, which would suggest to me that while able to consume human flesh and whatnot, they are biodegradable. Like any non-walking corpse, a walking corpse would putrefy, which from what I understand would prevent it from sinking in water. Skeletons are stuck on the ocean floor, zombies it seems are stuck on the surface, unless you state that your cool new brand of zombies do NOT in fact putrefy.
Third question is, why would a zombie swim? They'd presumably have plenty of things to do on land (i.e. shamble, moan, eat brains) and I've never heard of a zombie deciding it's time for a pleasure swim. Not being able to sink in water would prevent them from developing a taste for seafood, as well. So really, your zombie would have to learn to swim effectively to reach the island AND would have to decide it was so bored on land, it wanted to try swimming for a change. I don't know of too many mindless zombies that decide to try something new.
Throw some razor fences around that island and it honestly looks pretty good for at least temporary relief, unless you get some manner of intelligent undead that grows wise to your plan. Enter dmronny and sinfulwolf. If they come for us, we're probably fucked anyway.
But we'll take anybody who wants to sign on and who is willing to obey orders.
