Do Not Want: The Titanic Memorial Cruise

April 21, 2009 at 12:54 PM | by JetSetCD | Comments (4)

File this in the annals of Thanatourism: a charter tour company is offering a 12-day transatlantic cruise in April 2012, which will not only commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Titanic tragedy, but will seek to mimic the original passage as closely as possible. Even the ship itself, The Balmoral of Fred Olsen Cruise Line, whose parent company Harland and Wolff built the Titanic, comes close to the specifics of the ill-fated ship.

While we're aware that there are plenty of Titanic fanatics out there possibly willing to drop �2,595 ($3,776) and up for a berth on the cruise, we hope they realize this will be no vacation; it is more akin to a funeral procession. Carrying the same number of passengers as the Titanic—1,309—and playing the music of and serving meals from the menus of that tragic voyage, The Balmoral cruise is destined to be a mellow affair...or so we'd hope.

Let us creep you out further: the itinerary will begin in Southampton, England and sail to Cobh, Ireland, where the Titanic made its last port call. Next stop is of course the ice fields of the North Atlantic, where the ship will stop at the approximate coordinates of the Titanic's sinking in order to conduct a service at the approximate time when some 1,500 people lost their lives.

As if dancing on their watery grave wasn't fun enough, The Balmoral (assuming it hasn't decided to join the Titanic by now), will dock next at Halifax, Nova Scotia with the intent of visiting what else but a graveyard, in which Titanic victims are buried. The cruise will then end in New York City, at which point we like to imagine the whole of the ship's passengers sullenly offloading directly into a matinee of The Little Mermaid on Broadway.

Titanic fan or not, would you go so far as to trust a boat full of sunken ship enthusiasts in the middle of a cold, dark Atlantic ocean? All ashore, we say, all ashore! In any case, April 2012 is sure to be a month full of Titanic documentaries on the History Channel, and that's good enough for us.

Related Stories:
· Titanic Memorial Cruise [Official Site]
· Tickets go on sale for Titanic Cruise [Telegraph UK]
· Titanic memorial cruise offers cruise-lovers a chance to reserve a place in history [Born Rich]
· Cruise Travel Coverage [Jaunted]

[Image: BornRich]

Comments (4)

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There will be people who have seen the movie and/or are caught up in the Titanic lore that will gladly take on this trip.

Seems like an interesting cruise to me, especially the same music and menus. I wouldn't pay that kind of money for it though.

Come on, what are the chances of ironic death here? Pretty slim.

Oh my, why not. However the Titanic family decendents should be offered a chance at this. It should be done in an honorable fashion.

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