In response, the USSR challenges the United States over the salvage of the ship because they claim the mineral was taken illegally from their land. It turns out no expense is being spared because the mineral that is sought will be used as the power source in a weapons system that could take down any missile entering US airspace. The ship is then towed to a dry dock in New York - its original destination. Another submersible, the Deep Quest, experiences a battery shortage, which causes its manipulator arm to become locked onto the Titanic wreckage.Įventually the rusting Titanic is brought to the surface using compressed air tanks and buoyancy aids. 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!"Įxperts then begin the dangerous job of raising the ship from the seabed, in which one of the submersibles, Starfish, experiences a cabin flood and implodes. 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 then conducted in the North Atlantic to locate the sunken ocean liner. US intelligence soon find out that boxes of the raw mineral were loaded onto the Belfast-built RMS Titanic by an American in April 1912.
Using a radiation meter, the spy discovers that the mineral he seeks was there.
Next to the corpse is a wooden epitaph from 1912. The film opens in Northern Siberia where an American spy breaks into an old mine where he discovers the frozen body of a US Army sergeant.