[Infowarrior] - Clive Palmer’s Titanic Venture

[Richard Forno]

The last sentence of this article snarks itself.  2012 meets 1912.  ---rick


April 30, 2012, 1:36 PM HKT
Clive Palmer’s Titanic Venture

Clive Palmer
By Andrew Critchlow and Enda Curran

The Titanic could finally reach New York, but this time escorted by a Chinese warship.

Billionaire Clive Palmer, a 58-year-old native of Australia’s Queensland state who made his fortune in mining, said on Monday that he has invited China’s navy to shepherd the replica “Titanic II”, the flagship of a new fleet of cruise liners that he plans to build, on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic scheduled for 2016.

The ship, to be built by the Chinese state-owned CSC Jinling Shipyard, will have similar dimensions to the original ill-fated Titanic which struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912.

“It is going to be designed so it won’t sink,” Mr. Palmer told reporters. “It will be designed as a modern ship with all the technology to ensure that doesn’t happen.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/04/30/clive-palmer%E2%80%99s-titanic-venture/

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