Sinking of the RMS Titanic cultural phenomenon, commemorated by artists, film-makers, writers, composers, musicians and dancers from the time immediately after the sinking to the present day. On 1 September 1985, a joint US-French expedition led by Robert Ballard found the wreck of "Titanic", and the ship's rediscovery led to an explosion of interest in "Titanic"s story. Numerous expeditions have been launched to film the wreck and, controversially, to salvage objects from the debris field. The first major exhibition of recovered artefacts was held at London's National Maritime Museum in 1994–95. In 1997, James Cameron's eponymous film became the first movie ever to take $1
Wreck of the RMS Titanic the ship with the aid of the Alcoa Corporation's deep sea salvage vessel "Seaprobe". This was essentially a drillship with sonar equipment and cameras attached to the end of the drilling pipe. It could lift objects from the seabed using a remote-controlled mechanical claw. The expedition ended in failure when the drilling pipe broke, sending of pipe and $600,000 worth of electronics plunging to the sea bed. In 1978, The Walt Disney Company and "National Geographic" magazine considered mounting a joint expedition to find "Titanic", using the aluminium submersible Aluminaut. "Titanic" would have been well within the submersible's depth limits,