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Titanic II to be launched in 2016

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  • #62
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    Superbus wrote: »
    "It will really help you pretend you are in the movie."

    Or, you know, the real historical event that actually happened.
    Obligatory link: http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17j5q05xgozeljpg/original.jpg


  • #63
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


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

    She collided with HMS Hawke,and stuck the Nantucket lightship 117 in New York,not an illustrious career in my eyes:eek:


  • #64
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    long range shooter wrote: »
    No;)and I can see where this is going.Not to many experienced sea dogs on here obviously

    It was an honest question, as I find the whole superstition/bad luck thing genuinely interesting.

    I'm most certainly not an experienced sea dog at all, but both my grandfathers were ;)


  • #65
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    long range shooter wrote: »
    She collided with HMS Hawke,and stuck the Nantucket lightship 117 in New York,not an illustrious career in my eyes:eek:

    Forgot about the lightship, but bear in mind the rudimentary equipment/navigation methods used in the 1930's and it occured in heavy fog.


  • #66
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    dark crystal wrote: »
    It was an honest question, as I find the whole superstition/bad luck thing genuinely interesting.

    I'm most certainly not an experienced sea dog at all, but both my grandfathers were ;)

    No offence at all,and fair play to your grandfathers,times was different back then,also the superstition;)
    And since I am Norwegian,Norwegian sailors have their own superstition,going all the way back to the Viking age.
    Although some of the superstition still are very much alive today.


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  • #67
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Forgot about the lightship, but bear in mind the rudimentary navigation methods used in the 1930's and it occured in heavy fog.

    That's true,but that's how how the rules of the road was made,that we are still using today;)


  • #68
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I hope they shoot the first bastard to do the whole "King of the World" thing.


  • #69
    dttq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭dttq


    the groutch wrote: »
    lets give free tickets to every member of FF

    Wouldn't work, the North Atlantic wouldn't want them.


  • #70
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    long range shooter wrote: »
    No;)and I can see where this is going.Not to many experienced sea dogs on here obviously

    you don't have to be experienced i have watched enough deadliest catch to see sea dogs are very superstitious down to every little thing....

    :D


  • #71
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    hoodwinked wrote: »
    you don't have to be experienced i have watched enough deadliest catch to see sea dogs are very superstitious down to every little thing....

    :D

    Well one thing is to watch discovery,another thing is actually being out there:eek:
    Anyway yes,the tradition of biting the head of a trout or cod before seasons starts is still very much alive;)


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  • #72
    FreeFallin94
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭FreeFallin94


    I would totally do this! I have a bit of an obsession with the Titanic (both movie and the disaster itself) so this would be amazing!


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