 Writer Lewis Abernathy (qv) sold his script at the same time that  friend James Cameron (I) (qv) was working on his own "underwater  monster saga". Despite Camerons asking that he delay this movie to  avoid competing with _Abyss, The (1989)_ (qv), Abernathy went ahead  and was thereby deemed persona non grata with Cameron and associates  until they patched together their friendship when Abernathy  accompanied Cameron on the September 1995 filming of the wreck of  the Titanic for _Titanic (1997)_ (qv) (but not any actual dives to  the wreck itself).