Caught Log! The King of Salvagers, Masira!

At first the crew takes the falling specks for rain, until a whole shattered hull plunges out of the heavens, almost clipping the Going Merry and hurling up towering waves. Once the water settles, they puzzle over how any ship could drop from above. Nami then sees her Log Pose leaning upward and assumes it has failed, but Robin counters that the needle has simply locked onto a landmass whose fierce magnetic pull must sit somewhere up in the sky. She explains that a true Sky Island is less a patch of land than an entire suspended ocean, and she reminds them of the firmest law on the Grand Line: a crew must never distrust its Log Pose, however mad the heading may seem.

Robin reassembles the skull of a sailor from the fallen vessel, recognizes the marks of an old surgical method called craterization, and concludes the man had been dead for two hundred years, naming the ship the St. Briss out of the South Blue. After nearly drowning in the sinking wreck, Luffy resurfaces with a chart marked Skypiea. To gather more, he, Zoro, and Sanji dive down wearing the breathing barrels Usopp built, just as the Masira Pirates arrive to seize the sunken hull. Their captain, the self-styled King of All Salvagers, orders his men to raise it, and Nami quietly lets him do the work rather than admit a team is already below. The trio's tampering wrecks the salvage effort, so Masira swims down to investigate; Luffy disarms his temper by saying he looks like a monkey, which the captain takes as flattery. Their pleasant chat ends the instant an enormous turtle rises up and gulps down the entire St. Briss.

The Jaya Arc begins with this installment, which brings in Masira and his Saru Naguri attack. It was also the earliest FUNimation dub episode trimmed for television, made to line up with the 4Kids continuity so that Cartoon Network viewers would not grow confused.