This is the only picture I can find of Sandy's dad; he is the guy with the moustache...(obviously)
He took care of her until he died, just before he died, at his bedside she learned the truth that her mother did not die but has been missing from an accident on a family trip on the ship.
Right before the accident happened, baby Sandy was playing with one of her mother’s earrings and that one earring was the last thing of her mother’s possessions Sandy hold in her hand. Sandy's mother got lost with Sandy and her dad during the accident. Sandy’s dad discovered this earring on Sandy’s hand after they were rescued and kept this one earring until his last breath.
He passed it on to Sandy right before he died, wishing that she will find her long lost mother someday. So her adventures begin as a reporter while she searches for her mother.