Derek and Juliet Dell live in French Polynesia. Derek, now retired, owned an underwater photography and scuba diving business in the South Paci¿c for decades. The family arrives to celebrate Christmas and Derek teaches them the basics of diving. While hunting lobster for a beach barbecue, Derek's dive goes spectacularly wrong. He ¿nds himself alone at the bottom of the sea. As he lay motionless and drowning, Derek's life begins to ¿ash before his eyes. He recalls his experience with shark wrangling and other pioneer diving in the early South Paci¿c. Derek dives to the South Paci¿c's highest adventures while working to keep its deepest secrets. Clandestine activities born of post-Cold War fears. Derek must face the di¿culties of this work and balance his family life as a single parent to a loving daughter. In these ¿nal moments what does he think? How can there be a happy ending?