Salvage experts begin the dangerous job of raising the Titanic from the seabed, during which one of the submersibles, Starfish, experiences a cabin flood and implodes. Just before the Titanic foundered, the sailor said he locked the man inside the ship's vault containing the boxes of mineral, his last words being, 'Thank God for Southby!' It is aided by one of the Titanic 's last survivors who explains he was also the last person to see the American alive. A search is conducted in the North Atlantic to locate the sunken ocean liner. US intelligence soon find out that the wooden shipping boxes containing the raw mineral were loaded onto the RMS Titanic in April 1912 by an American. He is then chased away by a Soviet soldier, who shoots him while in pursuit. Using his Geiger counter, the geologist/spy discovers that the mineral he seeks was there. Next to the corpse is a wooden marker dated 1912. In the wilds of Northern Siberia, an American geologist/spy breaks into an old, snow-covered mine, where he discovers the frozen body of a US Army sergeant.

Producer Lew Grade later remarked 'it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic'. It received mixed reviews by critics and audiences and proved to be a box-office bomb, grossing about $7 million against an estimated $40 million budget. The film stars Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer, and Sir Alec Guinness. The storyline concerns a plan to recover the RMS Titanic due to the fact that it was carrying cargo valuable to Cold War hegemony. The film, written by Eric Hughes (adaptation) and Adam Kennedy (screenplay), is based on the 1976 book of the same name by Clive Cussler. Raise the Titanic is a 1980 adventure film produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment and directed by Jerry Jameson.

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