tim maltin: when bob ballard found the wreck, it brought it to a whole new audience.cameron did the film, it really brought the disaster home again to a whole new generation of people and, of course, to a huge global audience. we're going to make it, rose. trust me. suddenly, you could see titanic in full color brought back to life. andrew wilson: and because it recounts a very human story, a romance across the class divide, i think that really captures people's imagination. parks stephenson: it literally took my breath away. that ending just struck me for some reason to be able to go down to the wreck and see all the ghosts walking around. james cameron got pulled into this whole titanic mania and did his own exploration and research and uncovered new evidence. larry king: there are titanic freaks, right, people who collect items? [laughs] definitely. yeah, definitely. there's a large number of them. mr. cameron, have you become one? james cameron: yes, i think so. this is not, then, just another film you directed? no, i'm a bona fide rivet counter now. i've been suc

did an interview with bob, with dr. ballard when i was doing the abyss because i was fascinated by deep submergence technology and rovs and all the stuff that he was doing. i'm kind of a gearhead, so i get-- i got fascinated by that aspect of it. and then i had to go back and do the history. and the more you got into it, the more you got into it. right. he's become an expert himself and is not afraid to critically look back and see if new information has changed the story that he himself has so expertly crafted. i've discovered surprising new things about the ship. we'll look back to see what we got right and what we didn't. we found that you can have the stern sink vertically, and you can have the stern pull back with a big splash, but you can't have both. so the film is wrong on one point or the other. i tend to think it's wrong on the fallback of the stern because of what we see at the bow of the wreck. he's actually joked, maybe i need to remake the movie now because the scenario has changed a bit. to me, the most lasting l