The print viewed for this record was a sixty-seven-minute 1998 home video version released by Miramax Films and narrated by Leonard Nimoy. The VHS contains footage not seen in the original release, and credits for this entry reflect both the theatrical version and Miramax's added footage.
       A 7 Feb 1992 HR article by Doris Toumarkine noted that the Toronto, Canada-based Imax Corporation would be making its first feature-length documentary if an additional $1.5 million could be raised. Titanica was originally intended to be a forty-minute, standard-length IMAX film with a budget of $6 million, but the success of the 1991 IMAX concert film, Rolling Stones at the Max, suggested that a feature-length Titanica would find a market.
       Production began in the summer of 1991, and the majority of the material came from footage shot by a Canadian-Soviet-American expedition to the North Atlantic wreck site of the Titanic. The 25 Feb 1992 HR reported that the crew spent twelve to sixteen hours per day on the ocean floor, and collected more than 40,000 feet of film. Divers used HMI (hydragyrum medium arc) lights that were originally developed for the fictional motion picture, The Abyss (1989, see entry), and illuminated areas up to 100 square feet.
       Once filming wrapped, post-production was completed at the IMAX Technology Center in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The world premiere was set to take place in Oct 1992 at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, followed by a U.S. debut at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ. However, publicity materials in AMPAS library files suggest the Canadian opening did not occur until 30 Nov 1992, while a 24 Jun 1993 event at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, WA, marked its first U.S. screening.
       Although additional material was added, a 16 May 1996 HR review indicated that the version shown at the California Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles ran for the original forty minutes.
       End credits state: "Special thanks: P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow; Captain Anatoly Korobov and the Crew of the Research Vessel Akademik Mstislav Keltlysh and Emory Kristof, The National Geographic Society." Additional credits include acknowledgments to the following parties: "Benthos, Inc. - Sam Raymond; Cinemills Corp - Wally Mills; L.P. Associates, Inc.; Geological Survey of Canada; Energy, Mines and Resources Canada; Oceanic Navigation Research Society, Inc.; The Titanic Historical Society - Edward Kamuda; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Royal Ontario Museum; Trimac Transportation Services; Toronto Necropolis and Crematorium; Film Lighting Services Ltd.; Parish of St. John the Evangelist; Henry Hayward, M.P., Mayor of St. Georges; Her Majesty's Customs Bermuda; Bermuda Marine and Ports Services; Dorothy Morrison; Noella M. Haycock; Gladys Smith; P. A. Rowland; GP Films Ltd.; Richard Clegg; Tedco."