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27 February 2013updated 22 Oct 2020 3:55pm

Titanic II: “It will be the most safe cruise ship in the world when it launches” – business quote of the day

Still convincing after all these years.

By Martha Gill

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has revealed plans to build Titanic II,  a working “full-scale re-creation” of the Titanic, which sank in 1912.

The ship will be made in China and begin carrying passengers in the third quarter of 2016. Using – get this – exact blueprints of the original.

A Blue Line representative told Mashable, “It will be the most safe cruise ship in the world when it launches.”

Unsinkable, eh? Sure we’ve heard that one somewhere before.

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