Stephen Kingsley had a way of coming up with big and implausible plans. An Englishman living in Kansas City, reportedly experienced in the arts of marine salvage and port development, he masterminded a proposal for a massive revival of the Port of Limon on the Atlantic shore of Costa Rica, which had suffered severe damage in a 1991 earthquake. He established a group of on- and offshore companies under the name Owl Securities and Investments. The project’s aim, as pitched to w