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In what is probably the most disastrous travel package gimmick of the century, a British company is marking the 100-year anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking with a sold-out cruise following the Titanic’s exact route to America. Hopefully this ship is bringing more lifeboats…
Two thousand “disaster voyeurists” will be departing on the Titanic memorial cruise to America in April 2012. The ship will hold a memorial service at the point off Newfoundland, Canada, where the original Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank. Plans are also being made for the wireless radio station at Cape Race in Newfoundland, which received the Titanic’s SOS in morse code, to repeat the message.
Cruisers are having costumes made to recreate the appearance of the original passengers. And there have been competitive auditions to find musicians to impersonate the members of the string quartet that played passengers to their icy deaths on the original sailing.
Near, far, wherever you are, if you aren’t on a ship you can commemorate the anniversary of the sinking on dry land with a re-release of James Cameron’s Oscar winning film in 3D.
Read more at The Independent .