Beyond the Reef

Life hasn't been easy for Chris in the five years since his parents moved to Key West and he and his father became treasure divers. Over the years they've made some startling finds: a seventeenth-century anchor and silver coins from a Spanish galleon.But these early promises of an even greater cargo of Spanish gold have petered out, forcing Chris and his father to travel to Spain, to the Archives of the Indies in Seville. Perhaps more research will reveal clues to the lost ship. A year of deciphering the dusty records of a fabled era at last yields the final clue -- they are sure -- to the whereabouts of the treasure galleon.Now the money and the credit have run out. Chris's mother is up north working, and he and his father are reduced to living on a derelct sailboat, scrounging for food, still in thrall to the silent lure of sunken gold.