Australia billionaire to launch "unsinkable" Titanic
Titanic II is expected to make its maiden voyage from England to North America, the old Titanic route, in late 2016.
"It is going to be designed so it won't sink," mining and tourism tycoon Clive Palmer told reporters. "It will be designed as a modern ship with all the technology to ensure that doesn't happen."
The original Titanic, the largest liner in world when it was launched and dubbed "virtually unsinkable" at the time, sank after hitting an iceberg on April 15, 1912, killing 1,517 passengers and crew.
Palmer said his new shipping company, Blue Star Line Pty Ltd, had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese state-owned company CSC Jinling Shipyard to build Titanic II. The original ship was operated by the White Star Line.
The design work had started for the new Titanic, which will have the same dimension as its old version with 840 rooms and nine decks.
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Mr.Clive Palmer...Don't Challenge Nature...!
Ships run aground, ships catch fire, ships suffer collissions and ships do sink. That is why to this day a sea voyage from point A to point B is termed an 'adventure' by the insurance people. The hand of providence should never be provoked.
I am ready to board the ship again
You people do realize that the first titanic sunk only because of the crashing into an iceberg? if that didnt happen then they would have all lived and the original titanic would still be around.. what are the odds of hitting an iceberg again by this one too, like one in a million? ;) I think its a good idea for like a second retake of the ship :)
Stupid......................
I wonder who will be starring in the disaster movie Titanic II in the year 3000. hmm
Don't they learn? :P
The same was said regarding the first one too. Don't say it's 'unsinkable'. That's the height if idiocy.
“It is going to be designed so it won’t sink” Considering there's a planned voyage you better damn well hope so.