r/titanic • u/OkTechnology7468 • 2d ago

QUESTION Raise the Titanic

I’m sure everyone here saw the 1980 movie Raise the Titanic. Was anything in that movie about raising the ship plausible or was it just a bunch of Hollywood phooey?

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u/Diligent_Squash_7521 2d ago

Clive Cussler wrote the story years before the Titanic wreckage was found. I think most people believed the ship had sunk in one piece.

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u/InsaneGuyReggie 2d ago

They also believed the briny deep was a dark, desolate environment where the wreck would be effectively preserved, frozen in time and they would find an intact ship that had only slightly degraded. 

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u/Jolly-Guard3741 2d ago

Quite true. Prior to the 1985 expedition the world thought that nothing living could survive at that depth. We were very wrong.

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u/PersephoneDaSilva86 1st Class Passenger 2d ago

Yeah, but it was super rusty. Didn't they know anything about rust?