Tortola

The company is registered in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, and its main shareholder is Iraqi businessman Namir El-Akabi, a construction and logistics tycoon involved in the rebuilding of Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

But P.&I.D.’s legal address was a P.O. box on Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands.

Whistling Cay has a guardhouse that colonial-era officials used to scan waters for slaves escaping from St. John to the nearby island of Tortola.

Meanwhile, Tortola is part of the British Virgin Islands, which abolished slavery in 1834.

Unemployed, with a wife and kids to support, Rosbach spotted an ad at the dive shop for a mate to help deliver a boat to Tortola — no experience necessary.