A Naval Engineer discovers he has terminal cancer, he is already in debt and he needs money to care for his wife and his college student son. He is working on two top secret projects when he gets a request from a Pakistani Arms Merchant to make a duplicate detonator and the copy the engineering documents for an illegal fee. The scheduled test of this almost indestructible detonator is in the heart of the volcano on Montserrat. The Oasis of the Seas Cruise ship is due in St Maarten. The stolen duplicate of the top secrete bomb trigger is supposed to be exchange for gold certificates when the ship arrives in St Maarten. A tidal wave develops as a result of the volcano rupturing and heads for St. Maartin.