Titanic II to be built

[DK]

Maybe you could open a "Japanese Whalers"/"Sea Shepherd" thread? 💡

 

[CodeRedR51]

Maybe you could open a "Japanese Whalers"/"Sea Shepherd" thread? 💡

Not sure how your post was necessary, we already agreed to drop it.

Moving on....

 

[dhandeh]

When I heard this on the news yesterday, I thought it was a scale replica, not the actual size!

 

[photonrider]

Paying hundreds of thousands to travel on a ship 100 years behind what you could be travelling on for a just few thousand?

(Meme)

Original novelty? I guess there are some people around who would pay to experience 'Water torture.'

Modern Cruise Ships offer the best value in a vacation, AFAIK, and have a fabulous safety record even factoring the ocassional skipper who scuppers his ship. Everyone I know who has ever been on a cruise begs me to take one (I have a reputation for working and never taking a break, and haven't had a proper vacation in years.)
Would I use the Titanic - even if given a 50% discount? No. Free - as a paid journalist? Maybe. But I surely will take a closer look at my Will before I leave.

Compare the Titanic with RCI's Oasis of the Seas and it's a no-show.

Ironically, it looks more Ocean Liner, than Cruise Ship. Which should actually make it safer. But only compared to the Cruise Ships of its own time.

 

[gtone339]

Titanic II … and III and IV? Meet the Australian millionaire planning his fleet

Clive Palmer's ambitions for a replica Titanic cruise have been met with a mixture of wonder and mockery. The brash mining mogul explains why a whole fleet can bring the world together

To some people the idea of building a replica of the Titanic and launching it on the high seas amid a blaze of publicity is the ultimate act of hubris – sticking two fingers up at fate and inviting a future disaster.

But Clive Palmer, the brash Australian billionaire ploughing millions of dollars of his own fortune into the Titanic II project, does not even think the plan should stop there.

In his mind the future could see a fleet of Titanics afloat, each replicating the experience of the doomed 1912 original which sank after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic but launched a strange afterlife as the most famous shipwreck in history.

"I hope that in a hundred years' time people will look back and say: "Well, we are building Titanic IV and Titanic V in memory of the guys that built Titanic II." We hope that tradition can survive," he told the Guardian in an interview in New York after unveiling the blueprints for Titanic II at a packed press conference held in the bowels of an aircraft carrier-turned-museum.

 

[gtone339]

Titanic II Technical Video

 

[TyrrellRacing]

If they model the interior as close as possible to the original without cutting many corners then I'm very interested. Hopefully the rabble are kept below people too in squalid conditions.

 

[Wyvern_64]

So I guess we'll see Titanic II built right around the time the Nurburgring copy opens in Nevada? 💡

 

[Mike Rotch]

I welcome this idea by Palmer. It will inevitably be a financial disaster - given the sheer cost of building it and how minuscule the profit margins are - and ruin him and then we won't have to see or hear from his fat gob ever again.

 

[terminator363]

Eww gross, remove those ugly lifeboats from the side. They take away everything from the retro styling.

 

[Minty]

They should hire Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to do a promotional ad.

 

[hawkeye122]

So will U-Boats torpedo this one too? /conspiracy

 

[Liquid]

So will U-Boats torpedo this one too? /conspiracy

Oh please, we all know it was the RMS Olympic that was intentionally sunk in an insurance scam.

 

[Omnis]

I don't think people these days know how to act to appreciate something like that titanic. All there is to do on a ship like that is fine dining, smoking, ballroom dancing, and painting.


You might be able to take a dip, but the water's too cold.

 

[AMCNUT]

I don't think people these days know how to act to appreciate something like that titanic. All there is to do on a ship like that is fine dining, smoking, ballroom dancing, and painting.


You might be able to take a dip, but the water's too cold.

And dress up. I could wear my top hat and fit right in, for once! Should it actually come to pass though, I don't think there would be a shortage of liner buffs and amateur historians who could appreciate it. There may be a shortage of financially qualified patrons who truly appreciate it, though.

 

[gtone339]

Professor Clive Palmer Address

Clive Palmer: "like James Cameron line says, my heard will go on"

 

[gtone339]

Finnish-based naval architecture and engineering firm Deltamarin To Manage Titanic II Project Development

“Deltamarin will be responsible for coordinating the various parties involved in the project
including the shipyard, architects, interior designers and operations managers.”

Professor Palmer said Deltamarin will undertake a full review of the Titanic II project to
ensure the vessel will be compliant with all current safety and construction regulations.​

 

[sumbrownkid]

Oh please, we all know it was the RMS Olympic that was intentionally sunk in an insurance scam.

False, it was actually sunk by Somali pirates in an attempt at insurance scam.

 

[gtone339]

Clive Palmer announces TITANIC II model test to be held in Germany

Blue Star Line Chairman Clive Palmer today announced Blue Star Line in conjunction with German hydrodynamic service and consulting company Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA) will next month be conducting the first model testing of the proposed Titanic II.

Mr Palmer said a 9.3m wooden model of Titanic II will be put through resistance and powering tests in a 300m long tank at HSVA’s Hamburg facilities in mid-September.