let me state emphatically that i love and throughly enjoy the 1976 novel raise the titanic by author and deep sea discoverer clive cussler and it be one of the great and most spellbinding book of the 2oth century . but this 1980 movie that carry the title totally destroy this great work of fiction . admittedly dr. bob ballard 1985 discovery of the actual wreck of the giant liner have make this the most dated version in history and consider that people in 1912 ignore some of the survivor who say she do not sink in one piece and but break up just before sink . ballard discovery have authenticate these statement . i have be a history buff on the sinking of the rms titanic ever since september of 1966 with the opening episode of the abc tv irwin allen sci fi show the time tunnel where time traveler tony newman and doug philllps ( jimmy darren and robert colbert ) go on the first of many journey to this ship just hour before she strike the iceberg sinking carry 1 and 502 men and woman and child to their untimely death in 28 degree water . how anyone survive the water for over 10 minute no one know and but it be true that at least 6 person be pull alive and stayed alive and after this time though originally 150 be pull out still alive but die and be bury at sea by the rescue ship carparthia . incidentally the carpathia be torpedo in ww i in 1918 and and be it wreck be find by dr. cussler in 2001. the main note of a person survive the water be bakker charles jorgen ( 1888 1977 ) who be keep alive for more than 2 half hour in the water before be pull onto second officer charles lighttoller overturn collapsable b lifeboat after 1st wireless operator john jack phillips froze to death on the boat minute before boat no . 12 take them all off just a it be about to submerge . this 1980 movie really isn not worth the time to even focus on in any way shape or form and it be such a total waste of the talent of such great character actor such a the late jason robards . it totally wipe out the entire plot of the 1976 book . for example they have a takeover of the ship by the russian col. prevlov and who be capture by the american and turn into a good guy for u . gene segram go totally mad at the end of the book and dana his wife be divorce him and and have an affair on the ship with dirk pitt . leave out the start where the guy be brine the stuff over on the titanic the night of the disaster and and lock himself in the vault . the old man that pitt talk to be not run a pub in the book and he be the last surviving crew member in 1987 and and call dirk pitt away from the expedition to hear the story of a die old lymie a pitt call him at first and but through him learn the story of the titanic . they also leave out all about the men expedition except find the miner body in the mine in northern russia and and do not mention that his widow who be a lot young than himself in 1912 be still alive in 1987 now age 93 and give an interview to one of the important people . it also change the end of the story about at the one miner grave and where they find that the just and rock be actually in the grave but they leave the grave untouched in the movie and which go totally contrary to the book . in the book they dig up the grave the stuff be test at the very moment that out in the north atlantic that old crewmember who have just die his ash be spread over the wreck former wrecksite of the titanic . this be take from actual history for commander john joseph boxhall ( 1878 1967 ) the 4th officer of titanic and the last surviving officer to pass away in 1967 actually have this do at his death . may it be note that boxhall at age 80 in 1958 be technical consultant to the b and w film a night to remember an excellent film . also anyone who read the book will also remember that in the book gene segram be not in the submersibule that they have to rush the titanic up with to save the men in the sub . and when the titanic come up in the book it come up the way they last saw titanic in 1012 stern first . they be afraid that it would come up so fast that it would raise too far out of the water and flip bellyup . they also leave out the hurricane that titanic have to survive get to new york or the 2 russian bear spy that try to sabotage the ship drilling hole in the bottom . they do hold to some of the story but what little they do even this they destroy . i aeiterate go out to the public library and read the book and by clive cussler be fantastic read but a the main critic of this movie say avoid it like the plauge . personally i give it a 1 star only because there wasn not anything less to give it . if i have my personal choice i would give it a 10 star on a 1 10 scale it stink so bad . only some of the sci fi movie of the 1950 be bad than this destruction of a great novel .