Friday, April 6, 2012

100 years later, Titanic's allure still alive!

I think that it would be amazing to take the Titanic Memorial Voyage.  The ship will actually take the exact same route that the Titanic took 100 years ago.   It is a little on the morbid part to be in the same spot at the exact time that tragedy struck and took so many peoples lives. The Titanic Memorial Cruise will follow the route the Titanic took, and is scheduled to be in the exact spot at the exact time the Titanic struck an iceberg close to midnight on April 14, 1912, sending it to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean a little less than four hours later. More than 1,500 people lost their lives, and about 700 -- mostly women and children -- survived.   Titanic Memorial Cruise will set sail on this memorial cruise from Southampton, England with around 1300 fanatics.
 "There is a little bit of excitement and a little bit of trepidation to be on the ship outside at night with the chaplain conducting a Christian ceremony to honor the deceased that came from all walks of life," Tom Byron says.
"To be out there and know that 100 years ago, they were not doing what we will be doing; that they were wondering how much longer they had left to live ... it's overwhelming actually."
While not everyone would go to these lengths to mark a historic disaster, it's human nature to be interested.

While I think the Titanic's story is just an interesting as the next person. I do not know how I would feel about being at the exact spot at the same time that the ship hit an iceberg and so many people lost their lives.  History is very interesting, but if for some odd reason history was to repeat itself. I for one do not want to be a part of it.

No comments:

Post a Comment