Just a few week afterthe 100th anniversaryof the Titanic ’s only ocean trip , Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has commissioned a Formosan shipyard to build ahistorically accurate replica of the colossal boat .
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In accession to the Chinese builder , Palmer has hired a diachronic research squad to mind all the details of recreate the nine - deck , 840 - room cruise ship . The Daily Mail reports that like the original , Titanic II will have four towering smokestack , but this time around they ’ll be entirely enhancive . Instead of coal , Titanic II will be powered by Rudolf Diesel engine . Palmer says the ship will have gym , watering hole and all the amenities people bear from opulence cruise ships . It ’ll also be equip with “ twenty-first - century technology”—presumably so that it does n’t sink on its 2016 maiden over voyage .
At this clock time , Palmer articulate he has no idea how much the project will cost . We ’re taking bet on whether the circular will cost more than the political campaign Palmer also just announced . Yes , Titanic II Is patently a stunt designed to promote Palmer ’s political career . But if you ’re proceed to spend a lot of money to get elected , you might as well build something huge and awful . [ Daily Mail ]
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