When revealing his plan to raise the R.M.S. Titanic, Pitt alludes to the American government having successfully raised "that nuclear sub a couple of years ago." This is a reference to Project Azorian, a C.I.A. project to retrieve the wreck of the Golf II-class Soviet submarine K-129 from the floor of the Pacific Ocean. In fact, the project was only a partial success. When the mechanical claw used to raise portions of the sub to the purpose-built retrieval ship Hughes Glomar Explorer failed in the summer of 1974, two thirds of the already-raised debris fell back to the sea floor. A planned follow-up mission to retrieve more of the sub had to be cancelled after the Los Angeles Times reported on the story on March 27, 1975, quickly followed by the New York Times. The latter had planned to break the news even earlier in February 1975, but had been dissuaded from doing so by the U.S. government. At the time of this movie's release in 1980, very few details of Project Azorian had yet been disclosed to the public, and so it was assumed by many that the project had been more successful than was actually the case.

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