***SPOILERS*** Urged on by his grandma played by Gina Petrushka, who at age 50 looks at lest 30 years older, Mark Christophe, Jeff Richards, who left the family over 10 years ago is encouraged to find the reason behind his father or brother's-it's never really clarified in the film which one he is- Captain Robert Christophe's death together with his crew of eight on his fishing boat the "Cloud" that sunk off the coast of St. Kitts in the Caribbean. With his kid brother Dean, Richard Chamberlain, coming to help Mark soon finds out from native fisherman Tobias, Robert Earl Jones, that the "Cloud" was struck by the freighter "Dagger", that's now stuck on the Purple Reef outside St. Kitts, and sunk under the waves.
It soon becomes evident that the owner of the "Dagger" Tom Webber, Peter Falk, was pulling off some kind of round robin insurance fraud scheme that resulted in the "Clouds" sinking. And it's Webber and his gang of island thugs who are trying to do everything to keep the truth from coming to the surface. Going so far as trying to murder Tobias as well as drunk at sea as well as on land rummy Ashby, Terrence de Marney, who survived the sinking and knows the circumstances behind it. There's also the fact that Webber's girlfriend casino owner Rue Amboy, Margia Dean, is unknown to Webber Ashby's daughter whom he-Ashby-wants to prevent, if Webber ever found out, him from murdering her!
****SPOILERS**** With Webber and his goons trapping the Christophe brothers as well as Ashby and Tobias on the deserted island of St. Kitts the tables are turned on them in being outmaneuvered by not only Mark & Dean, who was badly wounded, but Ashby and Tobias who ended up getting killed. With Webber seeing that he's beaten now tries to make his way back to land, the island of Puerto Rico, by swimming in shark infested waters some 150 to 200 miles away. That with Mark catching up to Webber and working him over and apprehending him , after a furious struggle, Webber was lucky that he was taken into custody before the man eating sharks, in his insane attempt in trying to swim to freedom, got to him!
It soon becomes evident that the owner of the "Dagger" Tom Webber, Peter Falk, was pulling off some kind of round robin insurance fraud scheme that resulted in the "Clouds" sinking. And it's Webber and his gang of island thugs who are trying to do everything to keep the truth from coming to the surface. Going so far as trying to murder Tobias as well as drunk at sea as well as on land rummy Ashby, Terrence de Marney, who survived the sinking and knows the circumstances behind it. There's also the fact that Webber's girlfriend casino owner Rue Amboy, Margia Dean, is unknown to Webber Ashby's daughter whom he-Ashby-wants to prevent, if Webber ever found out, him from murdering her!
****SPOILERS**** With Webber and his goons trapping the Christophe brothers as well as Ashby and Tobias on the deserted island of St. Kitts the tables are turned on them in being outmaneuvered by not only Mark & Dean, who was badly wounded, but Ashby and Tobias who ended up getting killed. With Webber seeing that he's beaten now tries to make his way back to land, the island of Puerto Rico, by swimming in shark infested waters some 150 to 200 miles away. That with Mark catching up to Webber and working him over and apprehending him , after a furious struggle, Webber was lucky that he was taken into custody before the man eating sharks, in his insane attempt in trying to swim to freedom, got to him!