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
Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic lifeboat been filled accordingly, they could have only evacuated about 53% of those actually on board on the night of her sinking. The shortage of lifeboats was not due to the lack of space; "Titanic" had actually been designed to accommodate up to 64 boats – nor was it because of cost, as the price of an extra 32 lifeboats would only have been some $16,000, a tiny fraction of the $7.5 million that the company had spent on "Titanic". The reason lay in a combination of outdated safety regulations and complacency by the White Star Line, "Titanic"s operators. In