Titanic Cruise to Mark Anniversary Of Ship's Fateful Voyage 3
Since it went so smashingly the first time, a cruise line will mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic with a cruise that will follow the ship's original route. The Balmoral, operated by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, whose parent company Harland and Wolff built the Titanic, will set sail early April, 2012, but you can start booking your seat now. The cruise will carry 1,309 passengers — the same number that sailed on the fateful voyage — on the same route as the Titanic, leaving Southmapton in early April 2012 before docking at the Irish port of Cobh (formerly Queenstown), where the Titanic made its final call on April 11, 1912. The cruise will continue to tempt fate and irony by following the route of the Titanic and, on April 14, it will arrive at the exact location the vessel sank some 100 years before, where there will be a special memorial ceremony between 11:40pm (when the ship hit the iceberg) and 2:20am on April 15 (when the ship sank).
No danger at all! (Score:2)
Thanks to global warming, the ship will be in absolutely no danger of impacting ice! About the only iceberg they might hit would be from an iced drink dropped over the railing.
Seriously, even a small amount of global warming would be enough to melt all icebergs that would have been in the ship's path 100 years ago.