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Raise the Titanic! thereby resulting in a two row episode. Raise the Titanic! Raise the Titanic! is a 1976 adventure novel by Clive Cussler, published in the United States by the Viking Press. It tells the story of efforts to bring the remains of the ill-fated ocean liner RMS "Titanic" to the surface of the Atlantic Ocean in order to recover a stockpile of an exotic mineral that was being carried aboard. "Raise the Titanic!" was the third published book to feature the author's protagonist, Dirk Pitt. It was the first of Cussler's novels with a prologue set long before the main story,