In the opening scene, the camera sweeps across a series of newspaper clippings showcasing Dirk Pitt's accomplishments. One is an article about the raising of the Titanic, a reference to the Clive Cussler novel Blitz nell'oceano (1980), in which where Dirk Pitt brings the ship up (it was written several years before the real Titanic was found, shattered beyond reach, on the bottom of the ocean). Another is about the discovery of the Oiseau Blanc, a French plane that attempted a non-stop Paris to New York flight just weeks before Charles A. Lindbergh's successful journey. The plane left France and was never seen again, but several people in northern Maine claimed to have heard an airplane above the cloud cover at about the right time. Interestingly, in Cussler's "Sea Hunters II", he describes how he and his real-life NUMA team of volunteers went searching for the Oiseau Blanc in the forests of Maine, but were unable to find it. He suggests that it likely went down in a large bog. Lindbergh's flight is often mistaken for the first transatlantic flight. It was the first 'solo' transatlantic flight and the first flight from New York to Paris non-stop, but the first transatlantic flight was Alcock and Brown, who flew from Newfoundland to Ireland in a WWI Vickers Vimy bomber in 1919.
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