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Titanic II to be launched in 2016

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  • #32
    iDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    I'll wait for Costa Concordia 2 thank you very much.


  • #33
    rainbowdash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 878 ✭✭✭rainbowdash


    iDave wrote: »
    I'll wait for Costa Concordia 2 thank you very much.


    To put it in perspective the costa Concordia is way bigger than the titanic, if the titanic was in southampton today it would be dwarfed by modern vessels and look quite unimpressive.

    I doubt people would be arsed going on a small cruise ship with no swimming pools, running tracks, cinemas, kids play zones available on any modern large ship.


  • #34
    Doctor Strange
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭Doctor Strange


    Hope they don't cast Leonardo DiCaprio again. He'd be too old this time round, imo.


  • #35
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    Anyone fancy a game of Cards?

    :pac:


  • #36
    LordSutch
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    the groutch wrote: »
    lets give free tickets to every member of FF

    And Sinn Fein.


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  • #37
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    You just know it will happen again:D


  • #38
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    I suppose its just dressing up really, a bit like Bloomsday in a ghoulish sort of way.


  • #39
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Billy Zane could do with some work.


  • #40
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Used have an interest in the Titanic well before the movie came out.
    Cameron's movie finished it, even the Cobh 100th commemoration fell for it, Celine Dion on a PA system screeching out over Cork Harbour. Sheesh.

    Think this replica idea at best is cloying and kitsch and at worst, just plain ghoulish.


  • #41
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    dark crystal wrote: »
    Already been done:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f720MNvOeVc


    Yes, it's as bad as it looks.

    well if thats how this new one is going down, im sooo not getting on it! :eek:


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  • #42
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    smileyj1987 wrote: »
    I won't be going in third class .

    But the craic is mighty down in steerage.


  • #43
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    Having been out see for over 20 years,last 8 as captain,the superstition that comes with it says that you should never ever sail on a vessel with the same name if it has sunk.
    It's bad luck,so good luck to everyone who wants to go on board.


  • #44
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    long range shooter wrote: »
    Having been out see for over 20 years,last 8 as captain,the superstition that comes with it says that you should never ever sail on a vessel with the same name if it has sunk.
    It's bad luck,so good luck to everyone who wants to go on board.

    but then what do you do if some guy names his boat "fred" (terrible example but my mind stalled) and it sinks....and then you on the other side of the world name your boat "fred"...


    is it still bad luck if you don't know another boat called fred sunk?


  • #45
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    hoodwinked wrote: »
    but then what do you do if some guy names his boat "fred" (terrible example but my mind stalled) and it sinks....and then you on the other side of the world name your boat "fred"...


    is it still bad luck if you don't know another boat called fred sunk?

    If captain and crew went down with it yes.
    If you read about Berge Istra and berge vanga,you will know what I mean:D


  • #46
    Scruffles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Scruffles


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    But the craic is mighty down in steerage.
    plus if the rats start running,those in steerage will have a quicker warning that thur be a sinkin going on.

    if there is internet onboard they will need this installing for realisms sake-
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZGtnAVaRI


  • #47
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    long range shooter wrote: »
    Having been out see for over 20 years,last 8 as captain,the superstition that comes with it says that you should never ever sail on a vessel with the same name if it has sunk.
    It's bad luck,so good luck to everyone who wants to go on board.

    'Luck' is a load of old cobblers, meeting a red haired woman/saying certain words on board/changing a ship's name. Heard of one guy who thought it bad luck to bring a banana on board...what's a banana boat skipper supposed to do??!!


  • #48
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    'Luck' is a load of old cobblers, meeting a red haired woman/saying certain words on board/changing a ship's name. Heard of one guy who thought it bad luck to bring a banana on board...what's a banana boat skipper supposed to do??!!

    You are free to go on the Titanic II whenever she comes out,I am not.
    Ill go with the old superstition


  • #49
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    long range shooter wrote: »
    You are free to go on the Titanic II whenever she comes out,I am not.
    Ill go with the old superstition

    Er no thanks, nothing to do with superstition rather being I'd prefer not to be in the company of strange people who like dressing up as victims of a tragedy (when it's not Halloween).


  • #50
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Er no thanks, nothing to do with superstition rather being I'd prefer not to be in the company of strange people who like dressing up as victims of a tragedy (when it's not Halloween).

    That doesn't only go for the Titanic II.
    If you wanna go on ships called Berge Istra,berge vanga,bourbon dolphin etc,be my guest.


  • #51
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Titanic II should be a luxury submarine.


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  • #52
    IvySlayer
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    phoenix999 wrote: »
    +1

    It was a marvel of the age and Belfast should rightly celebrate it. The electrical systems onboard alone were well ahead of their time. But the greedy owners and some truly bad luck put it on the course to oblivion: using lower grade metal, foregoing full bulkheads, insisting on speed, not enough lifeboats, the list goes on.

    Why not celebrate her sister ships? The Britannic served in the First World War, as did the Olympic, which was built before Titanic.

    The Olympic was badass, a German u-boat picked a fight with it, so it just rammed the u-boat and sunk it :cool:


  • #53
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Why not celebrate her sister ships? The Britannic served in the First World War, as did the Olympic, which was built before Titanic.

    The Olympic was badass, a German u-boat picked a fight with it, so it just rammed the u-boat and sunk it :cool:

    Somehow both ships seemed to be hit by bad luck along the way:eek:


  • #54
    IvySlayer
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    long range shooter wrote: »
    Somehow both ships seemed to be hit by bad luck along the way:eek:

    Well Titanic hit an iceberg, Brittanic hit a mine, but the Olympic had an illustrious career!


  • #55
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    long range shooter wrote: »
    Somehow both ships seemed to be hit by bad luck along the way:eek:

    Olympic was dubbed 'Old Reliable' by its crew. It did cause one accident when it got a slap from a warship that broke its moorings on account of Olympics captain (none other than a certain EJ Smith) acting the boy racer.

    Getting attention from U boats during WW1 wasn't unheard of. A merchant vessel (and a slow-ish one at that) acting as a troop carrier getting the better of one is pretty exceptional.


  • #56
    kjl
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    I think it would be good if it sank, then we could have a sequel to the film.


  • #57
    IvySlayer
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    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Olympic was dubbed 'Old Reliable' by its crew.

    Getting attention from U boats during WW1 wasn't unheard of. A merchant vessel (and a slow-ish one at that) acting as a troop carrier getting the better of one is pretty exceptional.

    I'd of loved to see the German captain as the Olympic was going to ram it.

    'Ahh a troop ship, let's bully it.....pew pew......OH SHI---' *SMASH*


  • #58
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    long range shooter wrote: »
    If captain and crew went down with it yes.
    If you read about Berge Istra and berge vanga,you will know what I mean:D

    That's really interesting.

    So, say somebody built a Marie Celeste II brigantine ship, would you sail in her? I mean, that ship didn't actually sink...


  • #59
    anncoates
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    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Used have an interest in the Titanic well before the movie came out.
    Cameron's movie finished it, even the Cobh 100th commemoration fell for it, Celine Dion on a PA system screeching out over Cork Harbour. Sheesh..

    I was totally into historical maritime disasters before they were mainstream.


  • #60
    Where To
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    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

    'Luck' is a load of old cobblers, meeting a red haired woman/saying certain words on board/changing a ship's name. Heard of one guy who thought it bad luck to bring a banana on board...what's a banana boat skipper supposed to do??!!
    Let the dockworkers load and unload the ship. ;)


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  • #61
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    dark crystal wrote: »
    That's really interesting.

    So, say somebody built a Marie Celeste II brigantine ship, would you sail in her? I mean, that ship didn't actually sink...

    No;)and I can see where this is going.Not to many experienced sea dogs on here obviously


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