Wreck of the RMS Titanic of the film, made using a model of "Titanic", it would not have been physically possible. At the time of the book's writing, it was still believed that she sank in one piece. Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution had long been interested in finding "Titanic". Despite early negotiations with possible backers being abandoned when it emerged that they wanted to turn the wreck into souvenir paperweights, more sympathetic backers joined Ballard to form a company named Seasonics International Ltd. as a vehicle for rediscovering and exploring "Titanic". In October 1977 he made his first attempt to find
Wreck of the RMS Titanic on "Knorr"s screens. One of them was identified as a boiler, identical to those shown in pictures from 1911. The following day, the main part of the wreck was found and "Argo" sent back the first pictures of "Titanic" since her sinking 73 years before. The discovery made headlines around the world. Following his discovery of the wreck site, Ballard returned to "Titanic" in July 1986 aboard the research vessel RV "Atlantis II". Now the deep-diving submersible DSV "Alvin" could take people back to "Titanic" for the first time since her sinking, and the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) "Jason Jr."