When developers threaten the continued existence of a young boy's family marine life park,
he and his cousin dig into their past to find a buried treasure that could save the park.

Nine-year-old Tyler has a dream life. His family's ocean-side marine life park is all he's ever known and the sea animals his closest friends.

But when developers threaten to buy out the park due to its fading attendance and dwindling finances, he plots with his cousin, nine-year-old Aaron, to find a buried treasure rumored to exist somewhere on the property. A treasure buried centuries ago by one of their ancestors, the notorious pirate, Blackbeard.

Hanging on the park's restaurant wall is a treasured family heirloom map which supposedly pinpoints the location of the treasure, but critical information is missing due to a lost torn corner of the map.

Then, items discovered in a family trunk of heirlooms provide more clues for the cousins as do the mumblings and puzzles of a couple of the small town's oldest citizens.

When mysterious events take place to thwart the search and bring down the demise of the old theme park, the boys realize someone else believes in the stories of gold and silver.

The cousins find themselves in danger the deeper they delve, and eventually meet up with Blackbeard himself.

They find out the rumors about the treasure are quite true, but the ones about the legendary pirate are not. He is not the notorious Blackbeard, but their own great-great-great-great grandfather, Captain Robert Parker-Bond, a Robin Hood of the High Seas.

They go back in time to experience their ancestor's true pirate life and witness the burial of the treasure and the drawing of the map.

Upon returning to the present day, a continuing series of mysterious events pave the way to finding the treasure's location and the truth behind the strange happenings at the park.

In the end, when things are really getting bleak, they find the missing map piece, figure out the meaning of the numbers and discover the location of the treasure, which has been under their feet the entire time. The park is saved and the bad guys caught.

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