In the movie, Pitt reveals his plan to raise the Titanic to a skeptical Admiral Kemper, General Busby, and Director Nicholson aboard the Presidential yacht. In real life, the final Presidential yacht, U.S.S. Sequoia, had been auctioned off two years earlier at the direction of U.S. President Jimmy Carter. When ITC Entertainment asked the State Department for permission to borrow the yacht for filming, a substitute had to be found. A member of Congress suggested the Potomac, a 70-foot vessel launched in 1958 as the "Seven Seas" by Manitowoc, Wisconsin-based Burger Boat Co. owner Joe Wheeler. The Louisville, Kentucky businessman had just refitted her at great expense to serve as a floating showroom for the oil and water filtration and security systems manufactured by his company, Wheeler Industries. This movie's producers paid $6,000 ($17,500 in 2016 dollars) to use the Potomac, and Wheeler donated the money to the Special Olympics. Four months before the movie's release, the Potomac was used to entertain the wives of Israeli President Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat while Begin and Sadat met with President Carter to work on the Camp David Accords, which saw Israel return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt. Earlier in her life, the Potomac had belonged to Kleenex fortune heir and race car driver James Kimberly.

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