Perhaps the next one can be name, "Titanic".
Perhaps the next one can be name, "Titanic".
It will probably be met with a protest.
I hope it doesn’t get stuck in the Suez Canal.
Even when they refurbish the real thing(replica really) on occasion, they pull it with a tug boat. Probably only a handful of people that could captain an old style sailing vessel like that now.
I’ve got a great great great great grandfather that was a captain in the mid 1800s. Merchant ship.
What a BS story
This sounds like a useless exercise. They can’t find people who want to retrace the route of the Mayflower? Or is it too dangerous? It was probably too dangerous for the Pilgrims. But they made it. Now it is news that a robotic boat can follow a specific route across the ocean using a GPSsystem. It would be real news if a crew of people with only a compass and no engine were doing it especially if it was winter. But most people are too lazy.
Is the ship programmed to follow the trail of sharks that would congregate around passing slave ships, as Cong Donald Payne (Rat) claimed?
Sink it! Sink the Mayflower en route before it stops the natives from cutting the hearts out of innocents for the Aztec gods, discontinues ritual eating of enemy warriors, and starves out Carib cannibals.
Alas, there are no more iron men in wooden ships. If they wanted to do it right (sans real sailors) they should, at the very least, replicate the Mayflower and add their nautical robots programmed to read the weather, currents, etc... and set sails accordingly. Oh, and they would set sail in September.
Where have you gone Thor Heyerdahl?...