Raise the Titanic! is a 1976 adventure novel by Clive Cussler, published in the United States by the Viking Press, that tells the fictional story of efforts to bring the remains of the ill-fated ocean liner to the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. In 1980, the book was adapted for a feature film.
Raise the Titanic! was the third published book to feature the author's protagonist, Dirk Pitt.
In 1912, the RMS Titanic went to the bottom of the North At...
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Raise the Titanic! is a 1976 adventure novel by Clive Cussler, published in the United States by the Viking Press, that tells the fictional story of efforts to bring the remains of the ill-fated ocean liner to the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. In 1980, the book was adapted for a feature film.
Raise the Titanic! was the third published book to feature the author's protagonist, Dirk Pitt.
In 1912, the RMS Titanic went to the bottom of the North Atlantic in one of history's most infamous maritime disasters. Seventy-five years later, it is discovered that Titanic's hold contains a shipment of a rare mineral, the only available supply in the world large enough to power a top-secret and vital United States defense program. When no method can be found of extracting the mineral under more than 12,000 feet (3,700 m) of water, Pitt and his crew set out to do the impossible: raise the Titanic.
Dr. Gene Seagram leads the top-secret Pentagon program Meta Section, which secretly attempts to...
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