After rescuing Dr. Natalya Damescu, a former employee of Malprave Industries, from the hands of infamous assassin Carla the Jackal in Romania, James Bond recovers a data chip on something known as Poseidon, and delivers it to R in Q Branch for analysis. The chip leads Bond to an oil rig in the South China Sea owned by Cyclops Oil, a subsidiary of Malprave Industries. 007 infiltrates the platform by jet pack and runs into old foe Nigel Bloch. 007 follows him to the top of the platform, but is distracted by a pretty diving girl, allowing Bloch to get the jump on him. In the resulting brawl, the pair fall from the tower into a moon pool below; inadvertently entering Poseidon's underwater transit system.