The Titannic II will sail in 4 years.
Oct 28, 2018 13:36:04 #
Original route.
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/titanic-ii-to-set-sail-in-2022-following-original-route
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/titanic-ii-to-set-sail-in-2022-following-original-route
Oct 28, 2018 14:28:08 #
son of witless wrote:
Most of these liners went out of business because there are faster and less expensive ways to travel to the European destinations. Does anyone think this is a viable enterprise? Anyone with big bucks can lease a private plane like a Gulfstream for what a tour on a luxury liner would cost.
Oct 28, 2018 14:56:55 #
pafret wrote:
Most of these liners went out of business because there are faster and less expensive ways to travel to the European destinations. Does anyone think this is a viable enterprise? Anyone with big bucks can lease a private plane like a Gulfstream for what a tour on a luxury liner would cost.
Likely you are right, but there are a lot of Titanic junkies. I know a lot of people who go on luxury cruises. If it is booked as a luxury cruise, although going at that time of year across the Atlantic Ocean isn't really like a Caribbean cruise. I don't know. Whoever is financing this is making a big bet and you'd think they know what they are doing.
Oct 28, 2018 14:58:28 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
son of witless wrote:
Original route...But no icebergs this time thanks to g****l w*****g? Could it still be a disaster waiting to happen. Deja Vu all over again?
Oct 28, 2018 15:05:53 #
dtucker300 wrote:
Original route...But no icebergs this time thanks to g****l w*****g? Could it still be a disaster waiting to happen. Deja Vu all over again?
This time I bet they do not c***t on the life boats. What could possibly go wrong ?
Oct 28, 2018 16:10:53 #
son of witless wrote:
This time I bet they do not c***t on the life boats. What could possibly go wrong ?
I would have preferred a different name !!
Oct 28, 2018 17:59:09 #
malachi wrote:
I would have preferred a different name !!
I would not. If you are a ship owner you need to fill up this ship with passengers. As pafret has pointed out the alternatives to crossing the Atlantic Ocean in an ocean liner are pretty good. As far as cost, time, comfort and luxury. You have to give passengers a reason to get on this ship. To re trace the doomed voyage of the first Titannic is a pretty good gimmic. Nobody believes that the unlikely fate of the first Titannic can happen to them, not with modern technology. Also compared to a disaster on a jetliner, you have a pretty good chance of surviving on a big ship during an emergency.
I'd be much more frightened to be on anything flying in the air called the Hindenburg.
Oct 28, 2018 20:16:38 #
son of witless wrote:
I would not. If you are a ship owner you need to f... (show quote)
okay -- you're right !! I can't afford "her" anyway. It's a she because it's a people carrier !!! I finally figured that out ! Thank you for info !!
Oct 29, 2018 09:48:43 #
malachi wrote:
okay -- you're right !! I can't afford "her" anyway. It's a she because it's a people carrier !!! I finally figured that out ! Thank you for info !!
If I am retired, bored, and rich in 4 years I could see myself being on this boat. The odds are long against that, but life is full of surprises.
Oct 29, 2018 11:57:54 #
Oct 29, 2018 14:17:27 #
Wouldn't be interested in cruise ships but would pay good money to ride a WWII era destroyer, maybe Gearing class, in a storm again! It was exhilarating adventure!
Oct 29, 2018 17:55:19 #
RoyinNC wrote:
Wouldn't be interested in cruise ships but would pay good money to ride a WWII era destroyer, maybe Gearing class, in a storm again! It was exhilarating adventure!
I am getting sea sick, stop.
Oct 29, 2018 19:20:37 #
RoyinNC wrote:
Wouldn't be interested in cruise ships but would pay good money to ride a WWII era destroyer, maybe Gearing class, in a storm again! It was exhilarating adventure!
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My most exciting ride was in a driving rainstorm in a two-engine plane ?? mighta been a four-engine, but I was too nervous to notice
as the plane (pilot??) kept SURGING into the wind. Whew. I think that was the flight that was rescheduled 3 times. Yipes and wheeeeeeeeee.
Oct 29, 2018 21:29:33 #
son of witless wrote:
I am getting sea sick, stop.
Funny thing, I never got sea sick once, in my five+ years on destroyers. As I recall, many of us didn't, others did sometimes. If you want to know exactly what is was like, go to YouTube and watch the 3 minute video, "Warship vs Big Waves-1". Although that ship is a French frigate, it rides very much the same as mine did.
Oct 29, 2018 21:47:22 #
Malachi-
You're reminding me of a time when I flew in a C-47, from MCAS Beaufort, SC to MCAS Cherry Point, NC. the flight should have normally taken about 1-1/2 hours, but took 3+.
We were flying into a very heavy wind and making only half our windspeed!
You're reminding me of a time when I flew in a C-47, from MCAS Beaufort, SC to MCAS Cherry Point, NC. the flight should have normally taken about 1-1/2 hours, but took 3+.
We were flying into a very heavy wind and making only half our windspeed!
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