There is no ship traditional mythical in the history of shipping (and shipwrecks, by the way) that the Titanic. Well, two companies, one Chinese and the other Australian, are working on the construction of ships that will be a perfect replica of the popular sunken ship on its maiden voyage on April 14, 1912.
El chinese project is being carried out by China Wuchang Construction Naval Industry Group. The australian project, but which is also being built in some Chinese shipyards, it will belong to the Blue Star company, but behind the initiative is the millionaire Clive palmer.
El Sichuan Seven Star Energy Investment Group, of private capital, announced that it will invest 164 million dollars (120 million euros) in building the ship. This Chinese Titanic will be permanently docked on the Daying Qi River and can be visited from October 2017. Visitors will even have the opportunity to experience the moment of the collision with the iceberg thanks to a high-tech simulator with light and sound effects. The idea is to attract thousands of tourists to this floating museum.
On the other hand, in the Australian Blue Star project, a titanic II at the Chinese state shipyard Jinling, and will be exactly the same as its predecessor, but with improvements in rescue systems and the latest technological advances. The engine will also differentiate it, which will be diesel instead of coal, although it will keep the four chimneys. Your budget is close to 2.200 million.
More than 900 people will work on the ship and their transportation capacity will be 2.600 passengers They will be divided according to their social class, as it happened in the original ship, it will have 840 rooms and nine decks. its maiden voyage It will be in 2016 from Southampton in England to New York, and we all hope that it will not suffer the same fate as the Titanic.
If you want to have more information about the sinking of the Titanic you can consult this article.