The salvage
tug Sea Star is towing a barge loaded with cargo in the South Seas and is caught in a typhoon, that has the barge go under and the tug itself start to sink.
When the salvage
tug Sea Star is caught unprepared in a violent storm, it slowly sinks, and the crew, led by Captain Everton (Donald Sutherland), wander upon another ship for refuge.
A ghostly ship looms silently ahead as the crippled, ocean - going, salvage
tug Sea Star approaches.