A search is then conducted in the North Atlantic to locate the sunken ocean liner. The CIA and Pitt soon find out that boxes of the raw mineral were loaded onto the Belfast-built RMS Titanic by an American, named Brewster, in April 1912. This system, using laser technology, would be able to destroy any incoming nuclear missiles during an attack and "make nuclear war obsolete". Back in Washington DC, it is explained by government scientist Gene Seagram (David Selby) and the head of The National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA, a NASA-like agency for sea exploration) Admiral James Sandecker (Jason Robards) that the mineral their man was trying to find is needed to fuel a powerful new defense system, code-named "The Sicilian Project". Navy officer and a clandestine CIA operator. He is then chased and shot by Soviet forces but rescued at the last moment by Dirk Pitt (Richard Jordan), a former U.S. Using a radiation meter, the spy discovers that what he seeks: an extremely rare mineral named byzanium, was there in the mine but had been mined out leaving only radioactive traces. Next to the frozen corpse is a newspaper from 1912, as well as some mining tools from the early part of the 20th century. The film opens on the fictional island of Svardlov in the far North Sea above the Soviet Union in the year 1982 where an American spy breaks into an old mine where he discovers the frozen body of a US Army sergeant and mining expert, named Jake Hobart.
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