In 1953, the hunt resumed when Risdon Beasley Ltd. a British marine salvage firm, took a vessel out to the Titanic's reported location and used explosives to create an echo image of the sea bottom. Their efforts to find the ship, however, failed.

The next notable effort to find the ship was a $5 million plan by an Englishman named Douglas Woolley. In 1966, he proposed to locate the Titanic, surround it with plastic containers filled with water and run electricity through them to release gases that, he claimed, would raise the ship. Woolley also considered raising the Titanic by rigging it with nylon balloons filled with air.

The Hollywood film “TITANIC” starring Clifton Web and Barbara Stanwick and Robert Wagner is released

This gripping re-enactment of the tragic 1912 sinking of the Titanic. Though based on facts culled from eyewitnesses, fictional characters depict the men and women, many of them international celebrities, who courageously faced this unexpected tragedy in the icy, bleak waters of the North Atlantic.

This “tremendously moving... Extraordinary film” (Los Angeles Times) continues to captivate audiences around the world.

1953 - ACADEMY AWARD WINNER Best Story and Screenplay.

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