Posted on 03/04/2013 4:00:21 AM PST by lbryce
Clive Palmer, an Australian billionaire, released the blueprints for the Titanic II on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
Set to begin it's maiden voyage in 2016, and will travel the original Titanic's route from South Hampton, England to New York.
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Another thing that I'm sure of is the multitude of morons who are going to stand at the very edge of the ship's bow shouting at the top of their lungs, "I'm King of the World"!!
Some people might consider traveling on the Titanic II, a unique opportunity, almost historical in circumstance. As far as I'm concerned, this whole thing is a publicity stunt. It may initially sell out on the first few voyages but after awhile the company will surely go bankrupt in this day and age despite the success of the modern ocean vacation cruisers. Besides, who would want to travel the Titanic II after the very first voyage (even if it survives the trip to New York)? The original Titanic never had that sort of luxury.
To me, I wouldn't take a trip on it even if I received free passage in the most luxurious suite, the entire project, idea of a Titanic replica gives me the chills as being quite macabre.
If it will take me across the Pacific without squishing me into life-threatening shapes which take two weeks to decompress, I am willing to consider it. I’ve looked into traveling via cargo ships but haven’t quite figured the thing out.
I hate air travel.
I dont think I could ever book a passage on that ship. I’m not worried about sinking. Its just too creepy.
CC
If you get it figured out, let me know. I hate air travel as well.
What could possibly go wrong?
If it’s coal burning the green weenies will pitch a fit.
Heh heh :-)
In other news. A group in Greenland is calving off an exact replica of an Iceberg originally calves from a local glacier back in 1912.
Irresistible force? Meet immovable object.
That’s going to take one mother of a 3D printer to complete!
Think they’ll sail in early April? Got to be authentic. Could be a night to remenber
I had heard talk that period clothing from 1912 will be available, presumably for passengers in first class. Which begs the question, what classes of travel will be available on Titanic II, and in what proportions? The original ship was designed to be a moneymaker in terms of the numbers of immigrants paying third class (steerage) passage to the New World. Even the exorbitant cost of first class passage was not profitable due to the relative few number of passengers in that class.
Everyone wants to be Jack in the first class dining saloon, but most passengers subsisted on humbler fare during their passage (wholesome & ample, but not haute cuisine). The economics of Titanic II profitability will be more interesting than the voyage itself.
Let’s remember the fate of Titanic’s sister, Olympic. She survived WWI, but the 1924 U.S. immigration restrictions & the onset of the Great Depression ultimately made the great ship unprofitable, and in 1935 she was sent to the scrapyard & broken up.
For those nostalgic for passage on a classic older ship, there are websites featuring original vessels dedicated to preserving the travel customs of an earlier time. Maybe Titanic II will become the flagship of that particular trade.
I personally would prefer that to the typical Carnival Cruise mass herding.
The maiden cruise of Titanic II will host the inaugural ball of Odinga’s third term.
What, no one’s laughing?
I sure hope its not an exact replica of the Titanic.If it is it will have the same structural weaknesses that caused the original to sink.
Somehow I don’t think that’s the case.
A night to remember INDEED. And in other news the NEW Fenway park will be scheduled to be open during the voyage. But for some reason it will not make any of the news platforms.
Is the ship’s crest a hand with its middle-finger extended towards Heaven?
But for a two week voyage? Give me one of those ugly new floating hotels with hundreds of reasonably priced big, comfortable outside cabins, every single time.
I would rather not tempt irony that much. The first Titanic was “unsinkable” which was tempting enough. Now we have the second which will be ‘really unsinkable”. Thanks but no thanks.
I wouldn’t sail on it. I’m not superstitious but... That’s just tempting fate, or flipping it off, a little too much. The sea doesn’t have much of a sense of humor, particularly for mankind thinking we have power over it. Remember, most of our ships and aircraft to this day still run and hide from storms.
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