When Walter Adamson started on his journey to Belize, he did not think that the plane would crash, or that he would rescue eight girls and get them on a dinghy, but that is what happened in the middle of a tempestuous storm. The storm blew them across the water, and they finally landed on an island. What island they did not know but it was better than being on the water.
Now Walter was stuck on an island with eight girls. To make things worse they found that the beacon on the dinghy that had saved their lives did not work. On top of that after settling on the island they worked out that they were in a pirate no go area.
That meant that there was little chance of a rescue unless it was from a boat that was bigger that the pirate's boat...