by Theresa Michael

Created on: July 29, 2008

The Titanic has been in the Public's eye since she rose up from the shipyards of Harland and Wolff nearly 100 years ago. Even though the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage on April 14/15 1912, the world and it's fascination with Titanic has never died. Not long after the sinking of the Titanic poetry, songs and story accounts have been written about its sinking and the players involved with what was one of the most famous marittime tragedies in history.

In 1912 there was "The Tragedy of the RMS Titanic" which was a poem based on the sinking of the Titanic. There was also "Of Ice and Night" a german film that dramatized the sinking of the Titanic. Thought lost in 1914, the film was rediscovered in 1998 and has been included in the documentary "Beyond Titanic" according to Wikipedia and the film "Saved from the Titanic" which was a film staring survivor Dorthy Gibson. In the years that followed the Titanic sinking would be dramatized, used as Nazi Propoganda and written about but would come back to life in all it's glory in a 1953 Barbara Stanwyck Movie called Titanic and in 1956 when Sir Walter Lord published his nonfiction version of the sinking of the Titanic called "A Night to Remember". This book would be made into a movie in 1958 under the same title with no additional dramatizations needed for one of the most dramatic sinkings in history. A few years after "A Night to Remember" rekindled the Titanic and its memory in the minds of people worldwide the world would meet the survivor who could undeinably be the most colorful character in all of Titanic lore. In 1964 a movie version of the Broadway Musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" starring Debbie Reynolds as the title character would ignite the world and help keep the titanic firmly implanted in the minds of the general public. Then in 1975 a fictional book would take one of modern fictions most beloved Adventures to the bottom of the Atlantic and set the stage for the second act of the Titanic's dramatic history.

In 1975, Clive Cussler decided it was time Dirk Pitt found the Titanic. Having always been interested in locating ships lost in history, he realized the Holy Grail status of the RMS Titanic. So he created the book "Raise the Titanic" where Dirk Pitt and usual ragaband crew help a secret agency locate the Titanic under the premise that national security depends on a rare element that was shipped on the Titanic. In 1980 this was made into a movie, which has faded into obscurity. Cussler did his best

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