To find the idea of a Titanic Cruise/re-enactment a bit?

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OK, this is the first time I've ever started a thread in AIBU so be gentle.
Surely I'm not the only one that finds the whole 'let's dress up in period costume, eat fine food and quaff champagne while 're-enacting' the voyage' a bit sinister and ghoulish?
Could maybe see the point if it was for the descendants of deceased passengers as a memorial service, but the dressing up and 're-enacting it?!
Leaves me a bit cold just thinking about it.
(Not to mention the fact that bad weather conditions has been mentioned in some reports. Are they mad?! I'd have jumped and tried my luck at swimming to shore while I still had the chance!)

Title gone wrong. Should read twisted. stupid fat fingers

Are they going to be sinking and dying also? Are they all dressed up as posh people or are there poor people below decks?
Find it a bit odd also YANBU.

heard it being talked about in the news while driving home.

for a second I miss. heard the reader and thought he said it had sank. (grin)(blush)

I laughed so much I couldn't see where I was going for tears.

(((curses own black sense of humor, sits on naughty step)))

forgot to add yadnu

yanbu

I find the whole Titanic fetish thing ghoulish and revolting.
Loads of people went on an exciting voyage, and many of them died a terrifying death. The rich had a greater chance of survival than the poor. However nice the frocks were, it can't make that scenario romantic or fun, it is tragic and awful.
How can they make film after film of it? We all know it ends sadly, and it was REAL. It's not even fiction. Those poor, poor people.
YANBU!

I am not sure, yes titanic was a disaster and thousand perish at sea..... But there are ww2 reanactments and alot of other historic event that are reacted out.

YANBU.
Imagine if something similar was done re. Zebrugge.
Doesn't bear thinking about.

yanbu i never heard of this re-enactment cruise but how horrible! thats quite sick, im suprised people are up for it

I too find it odd. The tribute voyage - a bit weird. And I can't help thinking mostly cos I am EVIL that some of the distant mourning relatives are a leetle bit loving all the fame. Better than your Aunty Mavis being a parlourmaid that died of the pox, hmm?

But the dressing up takes it to a new level of strange. And where does the re-enacting stop? The moment of impact? Are they all in civvies for the remainder of the trip?

I agree it's ghoulish and I think it cheapens it for those few who are genuinely grieving.

It's had to turn back already as somebody was sick and had to be airlifted off.

YANBU. It's weird. What other disasters will be invited to 'relive' soon? If I wanted to dress up like an Edwardian toff and pig out, much rather be invited to Lord Downton of Abbey and shot a few peasants there...

no I find it bloody weird. And more to the point, why would anyone want to be on it? Apparently tickets were sold out over a year ago.

I just don't get this obsession with the Titanic, hardly our finest hour was it?

a friend of family is on it - weird innit?

southampton has gone titanic crazy - i find it all a bit odd tbh and just smacks of money making

YANBU - it's just ghoulish and really bad idea ...

It also brings into question the whole re-enactments of crimes that the police programmes do .... Just creepy....

YANBU and I find it odd as well. Something I heard today on the radio which shocked me, was that on Twitter there was some discussion where people had no idea this was a real event. They say that the 100 year anniversery was the first time they had it brought to their attention it actually happened.

Yanbu. I find it distasteful too. I'll admit to being fascinated by it, but all these 'celebrations'. Just wrong if you ask me.

'Imagine shaving your head, putting on pyjamas and going for a nice fun mock-gassing session with some chums, to commemorate the holocaust.

I can't see the difference.'

What a completely bizarre comparison Warren.

Comparing something people don't do to commemorate the wholesale torture and murder of millions of people, to something commemorating an accident.

It's not a cruise I'd feel comfortable taking, both because it's pretty macabre and I wouldn't want to be on a ship tempting fate, but some people get totally immersed in the Titanic story and that could cloud their judgement.

YANBU. It's a horrible, tasteless and ghoulish thing to do imho.

the Titanic is a fascinating story, but it is also horrific and terribly sad. 1500 people lost their lives and were subjected to 2 hours of terror before meeting their ends. The story does have a strange power to draw people in though, even after century. It has long been portrayed an ominous portent and signifying the end of the perceived security,confidence and innocence of the Edwardian Era, shortly before the horrors of WW1, this is part and parcel of the "draw".

However i feel it should be commemorated as tragedy and the site a memorial and grave of the dead and i hope (although hearing about this cruise, i now fear) that on the actual anniversary we aren't going to treated to fake emotion of ghouls dressed up to the nines pretending to be "characters" from the ship - makes me feel weird. Handled well it could be have emotional impact but it all sounds a little cringeworthy to me.

As someone says upthread, how would folk feel about are-enactment or a Herald of Free Enterprise, or how about the tragic Estonia , as recently as 1993, where 850 people drowned on a cruise ship in the Baltic.

I find it odd and distasteful that some people are so completely divorced from reality and see the whole Titanic affair as some kind of romantic adventure; somehow it wasn't real, but a thoroughly good story.

Movies are to blame.

I'm looking at you, James Cameron!

PS This cruise is ghoulish but there have been plans in the past to rebuild a replica of the Titanic and use it to cruise the Atlantic again.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replica_Titanic

It is bit like bUilding some models of some NY skyscrapers and reliving the disaster that was 9/11