Titanic director revisits ship's wreck with hi-tec

[KiwiCoromandel]

Titanic director revisits ship's wreck with hi-tech help

19.03.05

In Titanic 3D: Ghosts of the Abyss, Academy Award-winning director James Cameron returns to his greatest inspiration: Titanic.

With a team of marine experts and historians, Cameron and his friend, actor Bill Paxton, embark on a journey to the final resting place of the passenger liner, where nearly 1500 souls lost their lives almost a century ago.

Using state-of-the-art 3D technology developed for this expedition, Cameron and his crew explore the ship, inside and out, as never before.

Cameron and his team discover artefacts that have remained hidden from explorers for more than 90 years and then use those images as a doorway into history. More than any other shipwreck, Titanic continues to intrigue and fascinate the public. And the more Cameron discovers, the more intriguing this legendary wreck becomes.

"When you're a kid growing up, you think of Titanic as a myth, a story, something Hollywood might have created," says Cameron. "But when you're down there, and you can point at the wreck and say, 'That's where the band played, that's where First Officer Murdoch would have been loading people into boats', it gets very personal. You can imagine and understand the event much more clearly."

People have seen the Titanic before, Cameron acknowledges - the director himself brought audiences to the wrecked vessel in his 1997 Oscar-winning film. But this time, the experience is intensified by the visceral nature of the new 3D technology.

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[Kooperman]

I've taped all of the previous National Geographic shows detailing the exploration of the Titanic....absolutely fascinating viewing.

[method77]

a friend has on tape all titanic and other shipwrecks documentaries from National Geographic and Discovey. Indeed very fascinating stuff.

btw I've seen a DVD from Cameron called Ghosts of the Abyss. Is this a new one?