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The History of Diving In the Movies.

Least we forget in all this hype about James Cameron's blockbuster movie, The Titanic, there was another Canadian film maker who visited the North Atlantic wreck on board a Russian submarine and made a movie about the doomed ocean liner. Pictured above, the hull of the Titanic seems to reach out into the audience. This movie was a full length documentary shot using large format Imax cameras. Can you name the movie and its director?

Answer

Canadian filmmaker Cameron (The Titanic) wasn't the first Canadian film maker to use mini subs and visit the downed ship. Montreal's Stephen Low took a team of underwater all stars on board a Russian research vessel-complete with two Mir submarines-to make the 1992 release Titanica. Low's team included Dr. Joe MacInnis, National Geographic photographer Emory Kristof, underwater lighting expert and cameraman Al Giddings (The Abyss), Titanic survivor Eva Hart and cameraman Ralph White. In the making of Cameron's movie Ralph White was once again inside a Russian Mir taking pictures of the Titanic.

Dive gaffs in the picture include: improper use of dive mask, no snorkel, weight belts are fastened underneath the tank straps, improper boat boarding technique and Cliff's parrot fish looks like it came from a Taxidermist and not the sea (can't see any spear marks on the beast!)