Characters
- Georgi Antonov - General Secretary of the Soviet Union who authorizes the attempt to sabotage the raising of the Titanic
- Adeline Austin - the widow of Jake Hobart
- Commodore Sir John L. Bigelow - the last surviving member of the Titanic crew
- Joshua Hayes Brewster - a well-known and respected mining engineer
- Marshall Collins - Chief Kremlin Security Adviser to the US President
- Mel Donner - one of two chief evaluators for Meta Section
- Ben Drummer - Russian spy in the employ of National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA)
- Graham Farley - the cornet player on the Titanic
- Al Giordino - Assistant Special Projects Director for the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA)
- Commander Rudi Gunn - Commander of the Lorelei Current Drift Expedition
- Jake Hobart - one of "The Coloradans," an elite group of miners that dug mines in the Colorado Rockies in the early 20th century
- Officer Peter Jones - Washington, DC police officer
- Admiral Joseph Kemper - Chief of Staff of the United States Navy
- Sid Koplin - professor of mineralogy sent to Novaya Zemlya by Meta Section in search of byzanium
- Lieutenant Pavel Marganin - Aide to Captain Prevlov who is in fact an American spy named Harry Koskoski
- Sam Merker - brother of Ben Drummer and also a Russian spy on the NUMA crew
- Henry Munk - Sappho II crewman
- Warren Nicholson - Director of the CIA
- Captain Ivan Parotkin - Captain of the Soviet oceanographic research vessel Mikhail Kurkov
- Dirk Pitt - Special Projects Director for the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA)
- Vladimir Polevoi - Chief of the Foreign Secrets Direction of the KGB
- Captain Andre Prevlov - Russian intelligence officer for the Soviet Navy's Department of Foreign Intelligence; the Soviet Navy's top spy master
- Admiral James Sandecker - Director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA)
- Dr. Dana Seagram - wife of Dr. Gene Seagram of Meta Section; a marine archaeologist employed by National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA)
- Dr. Gene Seagram - physicist and a chief evaluator for Meta Section
- Dr. Murray Silverstein - Director of the Alexandria College of Oceanography
- Admiral Boris Sloyuk - Director of Soviet Naval Intelligence
- Vasily Tilevitch - Marshal of the Soviet Union and Chief Director of Soviet Security
- John Vogel - Chief curator for the Washington Museum's Hall of Music
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