Titanic II: Australian Mining Tycoon To Build Replica Of The Titanic
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
A maiden voyage is scheduled by 2016. Palmer is confident, but notes: "Anything will sink if you put a hole in it."
A plan to build a life size replica of the Titanic and sail her across the Atlantic--from one side to the other, hopefully--was launched in New York yesterday. The man behind it, Australian mining tycoon Clive Palmer, expects Titanic II to be ready for her maiden voyage by 2016, and will have a crew of 900 people looking after its 2,435 passengers.
With four funnels and three classes of passenger travel, Titanic II will have some luxuries that were not available on Titanic I--a state-of-the-art hospital, helicopter pad, and WiFi and air-conditioning. (Let us hope that Titanic II won't have one thing that its predecessor did--an encounter with a large, unfriendly iceberg.)
The boat is being built in China's Jinling shipyard, just outside Nanjing and its designer, Markku Kanerva, called it "absolutely the most safe cruise ship in the world when it is launched." Her predecessor's fate, however, does not seem to have affected demand, with 40,000 applications to take part in Titanic II's Atlantic crossing.
Palmer, who first announced the plan back in April 2012, the centenary of the ship's demise, says that he will travel steerage on the trip, because that's where the fun people will be, helpfully pointed out that, with fewer icebergs in the North Atlantic, there is probably less chance of a collision. "Anything will sink if you put a hole in it," he added helpfully.
Would you travel on Titanic II?I'd rather not :-)
But I would love to see in in person though :-)
How about you?
But I would love to see in in person though :-)
How about you?
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