Various shots of Dome Petroleum drill ships offshore in McKinley Bay in Beaufort Sea in fall, of men weighing anchor mechanically aboard ship at end of drilling season, including shots of other drill ships nearby, of men at work by big crane as ship moves at sea, of men watching sea, new ice covering it. Various shots of man working in machine room, of some of the equipment. Various shots of drill ships and suppliers at sea, bow of ship breaking ice, of ice breaking away, of splashing water, of ships making their way through ice.