On February 28, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, Warren Roll and his wife, Mollie, bought the 38', 13-ton ketch The Flying Walrus for $15,600 when returning from a long voyage through the South Pacific. It had been built in the late 1940's, by John Owen Wells in Vancouver, Canada and designed by Bill Garden... a personal friend of Warren's. The Walrus was a perfect match for Warren and his new bride.

 Until now the search has been largely symbolic: an artistic vision to recapture a childhood dream. 

 But it would seem that reality is stranger still...

 The ship had a past, stranger than any fiction. Now certain parties seek to exhume The Walrus from its watery grave.

 But more about that some other time...

 The mystery-shrouded "Robert Tomarchin" and his equally enigmatic pet chimpanzee, Moko, approaching Henderson Island aboard The Flying Walrus.