The Ghost from the Grand Banks

As the centennial of the Titanic's sinking approaches in 2012, two rival teams race to be the ones who raise a piece of the wreck from the floor of the Atlantic, one betting on brute engineering, the other on a wilder, more mathematical approach rooted in fractal geometry. Clarke weaves in a fictional newspaper editorial warning against disturbing the wreck at all, framing the expeditions as a test of the very hubris that sank the ship in the first place. A late Clarke novel that trades space opera for the ocean floor, with a running fascination with the Mandelbrot set along for the ride.