Deck hand Dick is working on the world's smallest tuna boat with the old man of the sea, Dean "Mick" Jagger. They bring their catch, 6 tons worth, back to shore. That must have been hard work, since they caught them one at a time. And The Minnow didn't look big enough to hold 6 tons of anything. But when the two man crew gets back, they find a strike going on, organized by Mick's son, Keith. With the price of tuna $325 a ton, no wonder there was a strike. But Mick doesn't care and starts unloading his catch, which starts a pier 6 brawl. Dick unleashes his fury to protect Mick and winds up being arrested on ten charges, fingerprinted and everything. So he's gotta get out of there, except the whole island is on lockdown. He gets surrounded by a bunch of big fishermen and jumps in the water when a fat one who resembles the skipper comes at him. He then swims back to Mick's place, where Mick has been made aware of who his little buddy really is. Mick believes in Dick though, and offers to take him to Mexico for another shot at the tuna before dropping him off. Dick agrees, and they barely elude the cops and Mick's son. Now, Mick has been taking nitro pills, so there's that. They catch a few flopping tuna before Mick has his inevitable heart attack. Mick's daughter, who of course loves Kimble, is somehow on the boat, which has eluded the approaching coast guard by making it into some friendly fog. Dick stays and tends to Mick until a plane lands on the ocean and Keith and the cops also get there, at which point he jumps into the ocean and hides. Keith sees him but decides to let bygones be bygones and says nothing. When everyone leaves, Dick swims to Mexico. In the Epilog we see that Mick has recovered and goes fishing with Keith, but just with a pole to catch one fish, at least at a time. Dick's world class swimming skill came in handy as he made it to Mexico, and apparently did not have to swim back.