Nick has been living as a merchant seaman sailing everywhere with his pet pelican While off the coast of South America his boat is capsized by an oil tanker In fury he gets back ashore seeking the oil companys board of directors and says that he wants to be repaid However he is met by surprising hostility He also meets a twelveyearold boy who it turns out is the heir to the oil company after his grandfather allegedly died Nick agrees to protect the boy and not very surprisingly they soon find that Grandpa isnt at all dead but merely hiding in the wilderness allegedly the Colombian Amazon Soon they discover that there is a conspiracy of greed and after an actionpacked climax Nick acquires a new boat