Raise the Titanic!

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The Sicilian Project is the undercover plan of the decade. It is undoubtedly the best-kept secret since the atomic bomb. And it's the President's baby. If successful, it will create a defense network that will insure America's security from foreign attack for the foreseeable future. The sole hitch is that the project requires a quantity of Byzantium, an extremely rare element. In fact, it looks as though the only Byzantium in the world lies in the hold of R.M.S. Titanic, sunk in 1912 and still resting more than twelve thousand feet deep in the North Atlantic. The task is simple enough: Raise the Titanic! The man in charge of the mission is Dirk Pitt, jack-of-all-trades and master of-most. Using highly sophisticated submersible equipment, Pitt sets to work at his Herculean job. The presence of two Russian spies doesn't help, nor does the intervention of one very nasty lady, Hurricane Amanda. For balance, however, there is one very sweet lady who doesn't in the least resemble your average marine archaeologist. Clive Cussler has accomplished a remarkable feat in blending high melodrama with exhaustively sound scientific research; the Titanic could be raised today. Mr. Cussler's novel will satisfy the connoisseur of that doomed liner's incredible history, and it will grip anyone with a taste for pure adventure.

Characters

 * Joshua Hayes Brewster
 * John L. Bigalow
 * Gene Seagram
 * Mel Donner
 * Sid Koplin
 * Dirk Eric Pitt
 * Dana Seagram
 * Captain Andre Prelov
 * Lieutenant Pavel Margainin
 * Ashley Fleming
 * James Sandecker
 * Carl Jensen, Jr.
 * Major McPatrick
 * Harry Young
 * Adeline Austin
 * Peter Barshov
 * Albert Giordino
 * Omar Woodson
 * Rudi Gunn
 * Ben Drummer
 * Rick Spencer
 * Sam Merker
 * Henry Munk
 * John Vogel
 * Mary
 * Admiral Joseph Kemper
 * Warren Nicholson
 * Marshall Collins
 * Marie Sheldon
 * Murray Silverstein
 * Georgi Antonov
 * Boris Sloyuk
 * Vladimir Polevoi
 * Vasily Televitch
 * Connie Sanchez
 * Joel Farquar
 * Curly
 * Cornelius Bailey
 * Sandra Ross
 * Ryan Prescott
 * Joe Kiel
 * Lieutenant Jack Sturgis
 * Peter Jones
 * Lieutenant George Uphill
 * Lieutenant Commander Scotty Butera
 * Captain Ivan Parotkin
 * Chief Bascom
 * Ensign Kelly
 * Commander Keith
 * Buski
 * Lieutenant Fergus
 * Arthur Mooney
 * Joe
 * Herb Lusky

Sea Travel
RMS Titanic