![]() ![]() ![]() With this knowledge, a major operation commences to raise the wreck of the Titanic and recover the byzanium, led by Cussler’s recurring protagonist, adventurer Dirk Pitt. A little investigation by the project directors reveals that in 1912, an American mining team was sent to secretly extract byzanium from Russian territory most of the team were subsequently killed by enemy agents, but the leader survived long enough to place the byzanium onboard a ship heading to America – the ship in question being the Titanic. The trouble is, this system can only be fuelled by a rare radioactive mineral named byzanium. The overall plot of the book and film is basically the same: during the Cold War, a secret program is underway to build an advanced defence system against nuclear missiles. It was published in 1976 and written by Clive Cussler – who, incidentally, was so unhappy with the film that he did not allow another one of his books to be adapted until 2005’s Sahara. This month, however, I took at the original novel upon which the movie was based, to see if it was any better. One of the films I reviewed as part of my Titanic Month back in April was 1980’s Raise the Titanic, a massive box-office bomb which I felt suffered from poor pacing and lacklustre acting. ![]()
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