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A Chinese-Built Replica of the Titanic Will Set Sail From Dubai in 2022 (fastcompany.com)
Great news for Celine Dion fans and James Cameron enthusiasts: The Titanic is set to sail again. From a report: Titanic II, a replica of the original Titanic, will make its first voyage in 2022. It will have room for 2,400 passengers and 900 crew members and have the same cabin layout and decor as the original legendary ocean liner. The $500 million ship, which will be built in China, is set to make its maiden voyage from Dubai to Southhampton, U.K in 2022.
The Titanic II will then embark on global routes, starting with the exact path of the original ship, traveling from Southampton to New York, minus the small detour to the ocean bottom, presumably. Making things safer for this journey at least: enough lifeboats, a hull that's welded rather than riveted, and a period of global warming that is melting all the icebergs. (Some scientists argue however that melting ice has led to more dangerous icebergs, not fewer.) Tickets aren't on sale yet, so there's no word as to whether they are selling round trip tickets or learning from experience and starting with one-way fares.
The Titanic II will then embark on global routes, starting with the exact path of the original ship, traveling from Southampton to New York, minus the small detour to the ocean bottom, presumably. Making things safer for this journey at least: enough lifeboats, a hull that's welded rather than riveted, and a period of global warming that is melting all the icebergs. (Some scientists argue however that melting ice has led to more dangerous icebergs, not fewer.) Tickets aren't on sale yet, so there's no word as to whether they are selling round trip tickets or learning from experience and starting with one-way fares.
how does it's maiden voyage start in Dubai?
The iceberg fires first
I think they already made a film about this.
The summary hit all the classic jokes, A+ for once:
The Titanic II will then embark on global routes, starting with the exact path of the original ship, traveling from Southampton to New York, **minus the small detour to the ocean bottom, presumably.**
Making things safer for this journey at least: **enough lifeboats**, a hull that's welded rather than riveted, and **a period of global warming that is melting all the icebergs**.
maybe if they rammed it things would of been better
Who would want to sail on a cheap Chinese knock-off of the Titanic?
"Uh, sir...there's *not* a problem"
What I find most interesting is the summary suggesting tickets should be available for something that won't happen until 2022 and maybe if a schedule slips possibly much later. We live in an odd world.
Considering it sunk as a result of long glancing blow breaching multiple watertight compartments, you're probably right.
"would of" - BZZZZZZT! Ask your third-grader how that's spelled.
if it sinks with rich people on-board. But does Dubai have a custom of women and children first?
The Chinese didn't realize that Dubai has no coal mines to get the ship under steam?
Well... If it isn't riveted it's just a fake boat. It should be re-name Boaty McBoatface.
Oh, right. They already thought of that.
I "would have"?
I "would of"?
I "wood of"?
I "wood have"?
All of the above?
TFS already covered those, and better, but thanks for playing.
Let's hope this one doesn't undergo a Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure (SMEF)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Titanic
Please move to Neptune.
Also, the new ship will have a lower top speed. The original Titanic was built for speed. Additionally, the ship was sailing at top speed to get a PR boost by setting a new speed record for an Atlantic crossing. People wanted to travel between Europe and North America as quickly as possible, and would pay a premium to get there faster. Much of the interior was taken up with powerful steam engines, exhaust stacks, and fuel.
Today, anyone in a rush will fly. People on cruise ships are in no hurry, and the ship board time is a big part of the experience. So the ship will have a smaller engine, and a lower top speed. Several of the 4 smoke stacks are fake, with only the exterior mounted on top of the ship. Stairwells are placed in the interior space that would be used by real smoke stacks.
... which was the driving point of the smokestacks.
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
I got a sinking feeling about this.
...Clive Palmer's glorious career before getting very excited by this. He's the 'brains' behind this piece of publicity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
so there’s no word as to whether they are selling round trip tickets or learning from experience and starting with one-way fares."
actually, that works the other way round - if they "learned from experience", they should push for round trip tickets, because otherwise they may have a little problem selling return fares a little later :p
Will this one have enough lifeboats? If it too burns coal the Steampunks will love it and so will the evil one whose name we shall not mention.
Actually had not water my mom this compartments; since they did not have water tight ceilings. Thatâ(TM)s right sink far enough and water flowed over the top of the walls.
Surely they will make a replica of that as well, to copy the entire experience of titanic!
There's enough plastic in the sea, they could do it easily.
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With modern radar and other guidance tech very few ships hit icebergs. On rare occasions they hit other ships, but that is about it. So, how likely would it be for the original Titanic design to sink in a normal lifespan if only the control room was modernized?
All I can think of is the irony if the Titanic II gets hit by an iceberg and comes to rest at the bottom of the sea right next to the original Titanic.
Beware of Sales Reps bearing gifts.
Contrary to popular belief, Titanic's design sacrificed speed for comfort. More specifically the engine avoided using turbines like the competitors. The reason is that turbines caused vibrations (still does, but way worse a century ago). Those vibrations spread out and people could feel them regardless of where they were on the ship. Titanic had an engine with pistons designed to reduce vibrations and the passengers didn't feel it.
The replica is based on diesel electric power. While easier to control with modern electronics, it relies on engines, which will be way more prone to cause vibrations and noise in many locations with passengers. Since the noise goes through the exhaust as well, it gets noisy outdoors. In other words the engines will make this replica inferior to the original when viewed from a passenger comfort point of view.
Steam has been developed further despite diesel winning, meaning it is possible to build modern efficient steam ships and it happens occasionally, though they are rare. Not available is not an excuse for picking diesel.
Really, half a billion sounds a lot until you realise it's only around the budget of two DC films... and at least this ship is unlikely to sink without trace!
So what, three of the four are fake? Why not just say three?
Because I don't know if that is correct.
I get it that the Titanic has become iconic for an era in ocean travel, but I don't see the point in recreating Titanic as a modern business venture. She'll probably do well initially until all the hardcore Titanic fans have had their obligatory voyage. But what then? It's almost as if someone decided to revive a DC-7 or Super Constellation and offered a "Pan Am" like service from Idlewild to Charles De Gaule at 200 mph and 20,000 feet. Cool yes, but I highly doubt a solid business plan.
What country is making the replica of the iceberg for it to hit?
Actually, (having worked on the ship's building) all are fakes;
it's nuclear powered - but don't tell anyone, k?
CAP === 'humanity'
Summary left out the best improvement: It'll have radar to see icebergs.
Clive Palmer is a local billionaire mining magnate/nutter has been trying to get this project up since 2012.
Famous for starting a political party that went nowhere, buying up a north Queensland nickle refinery that then went broke and buying a nice local resort in coolum that also went broke after he put garish models of dinosaurs in it.
He also seems to love litigation... so i hope he doesn't read my post!
I'll believe it when I see it.
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Made in China. Every square inch, er centimeter, will be covered in fiber optic cameras and listening devices...
Piece of chinese junk will just sink.
They weren't watertight - bulkheads didn't extend all the way upwards.
Triggered a Nazi. Good enough for me. Made my day. BTW, heard your GF is playing that Devil's Triangle drinking game with her BFF and some black dude. Have a nice day.
They will make money using the name of the most famous navy failure. This is literally capitalizing on failure.
Titanic was NOT built specifically for speed. There were faster liners at the time which by design sacrificed comfort for speed [different hulls etc]. Titanic was always about the last word in luxury - it was no tortoise but even if it didn't sink it had no chance of making the fastest crossing.
Dubai... a place with no iceberg...
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Watched the entire vid. Rear two stacks are real, connected to the two engines. Front two contain observation platforms, with the radar and comm systems placed on top.
Everyone dress up, get a band, and head for the northern shipping lanes!
Wait... Is this an Onion article?
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
it needs to sink to be an historic voyage.
Only Clive Palmer could build a resort with mechatronic dinosaurs so horrible that the dinosaurs themselves commit suicide:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-03/fire-guts-jeff-the-dinosaur-at-clive-palmer-resort/6276188
It seems that they won't be happy until they have copied everything else done anywhere else.
This brought to you by the same brain that thought it would be a good idea to build a mechanised Jurassic Park called Palmersaurus. It was a curious oddity, but just so you know the park was so bad even the mechanised dinosaurs committed suicide: https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...
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Except Kate Winslet would have ended up on the iceberg. Oh, wait .. now there's a plot twist.
I just know someone will start a bet whether this will hit an iceberg too.
Privacy begins with
Hey, it's not like it's brain surgery...
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
It would make more sense for India to build a submarine shaped like an iceberg in order to humiliate the Chinese.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Meanwhile the actual original SS United States sits wasting away at a pier in Philadelphia
But, her icebergs!
(I guess the above was too short to post...)
Geez, the Chinese can't even make their own ships without copying someone! Let's hope they don't feel compelled to copy the fate of the original as well...
I kid, I kid. But only a little.
Things would have gone better - according to some books I read as a kid and the below source, Titanic was designed to float even with some compartments breached. I loved history from that period and would read books on Titanic, Lusitania, etc.
"...Titanic, thanks to her watertight compartments, could float with any two compartments breached, any three of the first five, or the first four"
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/community/threads/the-titanic-and-her-watertight-compartments.9512/
Hopefully they'll use better rivets.
(There's a well-researched, if controversial, theory that many of the rivets on the original Titanic were defective, particularly those where the iceberg struck. When a split started, entire steel plates began peeling off: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/0...)
Making things safer for this journey at least: enough lifeboats, a hull that's welded rather than riveted, and a period of global warming that is melting all the icebergs.
You both need to get a room.
Are they gonna make the doors big enough for both Jack and Rose this time?
Who is building the replica iceberg? Will there be a slightly shorter twin (a replica of the R.M.S. Olympic) that can come to rescue passengers from the water?
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.