![]() ![]() ![]() Congress to act within a year to protect a British flag vessel on the slope of Canada's continental shelf under the high seas," Varmer said. Congress in the RMS Titanic Maritime Memorial Act of 1986, signed into law a year after the wreckage was found, to "address looting, unwanted salvage, and other activities directed at RMS Titanic and to increase protection of the wreck site," according to NOAA. The international agreement stems from the recommendation made by the U.S. Public interest in the Titanic has helped lead to its preservation, according to Varmer, who while a lawyer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration played a leading role in the negotiation of the Agreement Concerning the Shipwrecked Vessel RMS Titanic in the 1990s. "There were 712 survivors, and each one has a story," Poirier said. In one of them, Joseph Duquemin recounted jumping overboard in the "dreadful disaster" and swimming to a boat, where he was saved. Michael Poirier, another trustee with the Titanic International Society, told ABC News he recently found two survivor accounts published at the time in British newspapers by searching through online archives. "We already know the Titanic hit an iceberg and went down, but there's so much more to learn about it almost every day, something new gets revealed about the ship, or its passengers or the crew," Sopin said. Sopin is also a trustee of the Titanic International Society, which preserves the history and advances research on the ship. Other notable works that have referenced the Titanic that Thompson mentioned off the top of his head include Noel Coward's 1931 play "Cavalcade" and 1933 Oscar-winning film adaptation Walter Lord's 1955 non-fiction book "A Night to Remember," which spawned an ambitious live television play in 1956 and a docudrama film two years later the 1960 musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and its 1964 film adaptation Clive Cussler's 1976 novel "Raise the Titanic!," which was adapted into a film in 19 IMAX documentary film "Titanica" and James Cameron's Oscar-winning 1997 film, "Titanic." "The Titanic has basically been in popular culture since the night it sank," Robert Thompson, founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, told ABC News, who noted that the first movie about the Titanic - a silent film - was released a month after it sank but has since been lost. Visits to the underwater site have been conducted in recent decades to retrieve artifacts, study the Titanic's gradual decay and simply lay eyes on the storied shipwreck, which has inspired a wealth of novels, plays, TV shows and films. Xavier Desmier/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images ![]()
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