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''Raise the Titanic'' was a 1976 proto-techno-thriller novel by [[Clive Cussler]] and his first best seller. Published a full nine years before the wreck of the ''RMS Titanic'' was discovered, its plot unintentionally takes a few liberties with the plausibility of salvaging the doomed ocean liner (until the wreck was found, most experts assumed it remained intact after sinking rather than breaking in two). ▼
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| author = Clive Cussler
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| genre = Techno-thriller
| franchise = NUMA Series
| preceded by = Iceberg (Dirk Pitt novel)
| followed by = Vixen 03
| publication date = 1976
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▲'''''Raise the Titanic! ''''' was a 1976 proto-techno-thriller novel by [[Clive Cussler]] and his first best seller. Published a full nine years before the wreck of the ''RMS Titanic'' was discovered, its plot unintentionally takes a few liberties with the plausibility of salvaging the doomed ocean liner (until the wreck was found, most experts assumed it remained intact after sinking rather than breaking in two).
Gene Seagram, top scientist for a heavily-funded top-secret government think-tank designs a defense system that would make it impossible for Russian missiles to hit any target in the continental United States, rendering the ICBM obsolete and shifting the balance of world power in America's favour. Unfortunately the device will only run on some [[Unobtanium]], the only known supply of which went to the bottom of the ocean on April 15th, 1912 during the sinking of the Titanic. There's only one thing to be done...
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