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 one of "Titanic"s surviving crew members, who became the first relative of a "Titanic" passenger or crew member to visit the wreck. Cameron himself also returned to "Titanic" in 2001 to carry out filming for Walt Disney Pictures' "Ghosts of the Abyss", filmed in 3D. In 2003 and 2004, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration carried out two expeditions to "Titanic". The first, carried out between 22 June and 2 July 2003, performed four dives in two days. Its key aims were to assess the current condition of the wreck site and carry out scientific observations to support ongoing