A south
Florida marine engineer and boat-building enthusiast is called on assignment to
investigate mysterious damage done to an oil derrick just off the east coast,
and just inside of the Bermuda triangle.
He leaves his small town just before the annual home-made boat race, and
begins investigating the mysterious damage to the derrick. While he’s there a second accident results in
two repairmen being eaten by an inky black shark, and the scientist calls a
biologist friend to join in the investigation.
Sure enough, they learn that a family of sharks have become mutated due
to irresponsible drilling practices, and that they now thrive on oil.
As the
sharks grow, their appetite increases, and when they can no longer satisfy
themselves with the leaking pollutant, they tear into the oil derrick,
destroying it from the bottom up. The
engineer and the biologist narrowly escape, and must race to shore in a
home-made boat to warn their hometown of the nasty beasts inhabiting the
trade-wind propelled oil spill.
They
survive another conflict with the beast in route, and make it to shore ahead of
the oil, in the midst of the home-made boat race. The shark is hot on their heels, and the
engineer is just able to save his family as carnage ensues. Battle begins between the shark and the
townsfolk, a battle made all the more dangerous because these sharks not only
breathe oil, but also spray boiling tar from glands in their throats. And when the oily surface of the water
catches fire… well, then all hell really breaks loose.
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