It is said that Shakespeare had written The Tempest through much influence from his life and thought it would be effective to write things in the play. Shakespeare had a family friend who was a British Admiral who coasted away with his crew to the Bermuda area but much of the drunk characters and such chaos was influenced from the bias view that he had that most sailors were drunk most of the time and would only care about drinking, not their task on sea.
To continue, although this was one of Shakespeare's shortest plays, simply constructed he made sure it was one that showed much richness in characters and their lives as this was the most common thing going around in theatre so he wanted this play to grab not only a certain target audience but everyone. Also going with the playhouse and inn style theatre uses, he wanted most scenes to have a musical feel to it along with highly formed styles of drama, this was seen in many scenes, one being with Ferdinand and Miranda in Act IV Scene I.
It's also suggested that Shakespeare had taken in passages that he read from Erasmus' Naufragium (The Shipwreck) in 1606 and this helped him with the wrecking of the ship and how it was wrecked in The Tempest, leading everyone (the characters) on the island to not trust each other and almost this sense of someone being a Gustapo to one another.
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