Australian billionaire is rebuilding the Titanic

[Mike_Yates]

An Australian billionaire is rebuilding the RMS Titanic.

For some reason I think riding on this ship would be very eerie and awkward.

More than 2,000 people died when it sank almost 104 years ago.

http://www.curbed.com/2016/2/11/11029730/titanic-ii-clive-palmer-flipped

 

[phrodeau]

The death toll of the Titanic disaster was 1,514 by most accounts.

 

[Bookishleigh]

The death toll of the Titanic disaster was 1,514 by most accounts.

You and your details....you're funny.

And I would completely ride the new Titanic. Some of us like eerie and awkward. Probably safer than Tinder....

 

[SuprSalor]

The death toll of the Titanic disaster was 1,514 by most accounts.

Never let the facts get in the way of a thread..

 

[eyerami]

An Australian billionaire is rebuilding the RMS Titanic.

For some reason I think riding on this ship would be very eerie and awkward.

More than 2,000 people died when it sank almost 104 years ago.

http://www.curbed.com/2016/2/11/11029730/titanic-ii-clive-palmer-flipped

They're just rebuilding it so wanker queen can go down on it.

 

[Mike_Yates]

I wonder if it will use the old steam engines/boilers or if the technical workings of the ship will be upgraded to modern technology like diesel-electric engines, sonar, computerized navigation and communication equipment.

Also, including a double-layered hull will prevent the same tragedy from happening again in the unlikely event that it hits another iceberg.

This simple feature that is now standard in most large ships and oceanliners would most likely have SAVED the first Titanic.

Also, the bulkheads were not hermetically sealed, which is why each one of them became flooded.

The way that the Titanic was designed meant that even a minor hull breach could jeopardize the entire vessel.

Whichever engineer designed the Titanic had to have been drunk, or just an idiot.

"Unsinkable" my ass.

 

[Tryharder62]

I wouldn't ride on it without my own personal life jacket. I would also be counting the life boats.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Would you stand on the bow of the ship with your arms out and say "I'm the king of the world!"?

 

[geronimo_appleby]

I wonder if it will use the old steam engines/boilers or if the technical workings of the ship will be upgraded to modern technology like diesel-electric engines, sonar, computerized navigation and communication equipment.

Also, including a double-layered hull will prevent the same tragedy from happening again in the unlikely event that it hits another iceberg.

This simple feature that is now standard in most large ships and oceanliners would most likely have SAVED the first Titanic.

Also, the bulkheads were not hermetically sealed, which is why each one of them became flooded.

The way that the Titanic was designed meant that even a minor hull breach could jeopardize the entire vessel.

Whichever engineer designed the Titanic had to have been drunk, or just an idiot.

"Unsinkable" my ass.

would there be some maritime regulation about standards for navigation devices on a vessel that size these days?

and who says the deign engineer claimed it was unsinkable? that sounds more like white star line PR to me.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

this is the ship we sailed in to get to australia in 1971

http://www.ssmaritime.com/BritanisTilbury-UK-76.jpg

this is how she ended up; oct 2000

http://chickenjuice.neocities.org/britanis/The%20Britanis%20Sinking_files/britanis_4.jpg

 

[Mike_Yates]

would there be some maritime regulation about standards for navigation devices on a vessel that size these days?

and who says the deign engineer claimed it was unsinkable? that sounds more like white star line PR to me.

There is a conspiracy theory which states that the Titanic was sank deliberately so the white star line could collect on the insurance money.

White star line was having serious financial woes and cashing in on the Titanic's insurance money would save the company from bankruptcy.

http://henrymakow.com/was_sinking_the_titanic.html

 

[geronimo_appleby]

There is a conspiracy theory which states that the Titanic was sank deliberately so the white star line could collect on the insurance money.

White star line was having serious financial woes and cashing in on the Titanic's insurance money would save the company from bankruptcy.

not implausible.

 

[SuprSalor]

I wonder if it will use the old steam engines/boilers or if the technical workings of the ship will be upgraded to modern technology like diesel-electric engines, sonar, computerized navigation and communication equipment.

Also, including a double-layered hull will prevent the same tragedy from happening again in the unlikely event that it hits another iceberg.

This simple feature that is now standard in most large ships and oceanliners would most likely have SAVED the first Titanic.

Also, the bulkheads were not hermetically sealed, which is why each one of them became flooded.

The way that the Titanic was designed meant that even a minor hull breach could jeopardize the entire vessel.

Whichever engineer designed the Titanic had to have been drunk, or just an idiot.

"Unsinkable" my ass.

Not to interject more of those pesky facts, oil tankers are the about the only ships these days to have Double Bottom/Hulls. Reproducing the original powerplant would most likely cost as much as the entire project. She'll have modern propulsion. And International Maritime Law will require up to date Navigation/Communications/Safety equipment.

Most experts agree that had the Titanic rammed the iceberg head-on as opposed to side-swiping it, she would have very likely survived the collision. Such a happening would have "proved" the claims of being unsinkable.. White Star's business would have undoubtedly radically improved..

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He can't rebuild it, he doesn't own the salvage rights.



The only thing he can build is a replica...

 

[pollynova]

Isn't the Titanic really small compared to cruise ships today? What's the point?

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Isn't the Titanic really small compared to cruise ships today? What's the point?

size-obsessed, huh?

 

[Radiohead]

You and your details....you're funny.

And I would completely ride the new Titanic. Some of us like eerie and awkward. Probably safer than Tinder....

Not if you knew Clive Palmer... though I should take it back if you plan to vote Trump.

This is four years old before he even ran for parliament and bankrupted a bunch of owned companies.

And, depends how you ride Tinder, I guess.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Here are interviews with actual Titanic survivors done in the 1970's and 80's.

Today, I don't believe that there are any living Titanic survivors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez_iSh5JqVo

 

[Mike_Yates]

this is the ship we sailed in to get to australia in 1971

http://www.ssmaritime.com/BritanisTilbury-UK-76.jpg

this is how she ended up; oct 2000

http://chickenjuice.neocities.org/britanis/The%20Britanis%20Sinking_files/britanis_4.jpg

What caused it to sink?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Fat American tourists rushing to starboard to see the Orcas...

 

[JohnnySavage]

What caused it to sink?

On 3 July 2000 Belofin-1 was towed by the Ukrainian tug Iribis out of Tampa Bay with the CN Marine ferry Bluenose lashed to her port side. The group was bound for ship breakers in India. Belofin-1 began taking on water and listing during the voyage but nobody was on board to correct the list. The tugboat crew cut her free and Belofin-1 capsized and sank due to progressive flooding some fifty miles off Cape Town South Africa on 21 October 2000.

Insurance money