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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAnd. It's. Called. The. Titanic.
Why would that possibly be a bad idea?
http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/travel/Titanic-II-set-to-sail-in-2018-says-Aussie-billionaire.html
A spokesman for the tycoon said that the project had merely been delayed and not abandoned.
Titanic II will look virtually identical to the Belfast-built luxury liner which sank on April 1912 after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage, but the ship will have some modern improvements.
The ship will be four meters wider in order to meet todays maritime safety regulations, and the hull will be welded, not riveted, the Belfast Telegraph reports.
I'm not even superstitious but for Christ's sake, can we all agree there are some aspects of fate you just don't tempt?
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)... creating a "replica" of the Titanic is a bad idea even if the original ship hadn't sunk. (fun fact: Titanic's sister Britannic sank even faster after she experienced an explosion while serving as a hospital ship in WWI. But the third ship of the class, Olympic, served for many years, and many Atlantic crossings)
-- Mal
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)hunter
(38,317 posts)If you're going to tempt fate, go all the way!
Heck, make it a space ship!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_Damned_%28Doctor_Who%29
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)GaYellowDawg
(4,447 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Leaving out the part about the last Titanic killing 1500 people the first time they tried to use it, where is he going to find enough people willing to pay a multiple of the price of an airline ticket for a much slower ride to make this a profitable proposition? There's a reason the great ocean liners of yesteryear have all been cut up.