From the appearence of the Books cover the reader would be forgiven for asumming this is just another tale about rescue at sea. The author discovers after his near fatal expirience in the Indian Ocean (Off the Cocos Keeling Islands), that he has unwittingly become part of a two hundred year old reaccuring twist of fate .Directly related to two ancestors centurys apart with exactly the same family name who both coincidentaly suffered the same fate in the same part of the Atlantic ocean. (Off the coast of West Africa).Lukily for JJ Paterson, he managed to survive a simlar fate. During his travels JJ also meets his soul mate Christina who becomes a major part of this intriguing tale.