This video begins with narrated raw footage of four submersible dives at Heceta Bank dated September 4-7, 1988 (start of video to timestamp 11:30). Following this is a series of KMTR News reports on the controversy over potential oil and gas drilling, as well as mineral mining off the shores of the Oregon Coast. Coos County reporter Joe Arndt hosts the series.

Digitized from a VHS original held in the Oregon Sea Grant Communications Videotapes and DVDs (FV185 - SG1:013), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.