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

[CremeEggsandHam]

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!)

[CremeEggsandHam]

That's the way I see it too. If they were going to visit the site for a few minutes silence and to throw wreaths and flowers into the water, then that would be understandable and quite a touching thing to do.
To dress up and recreate the whole cruise from the beginning, though, right down to the food on the menus they were eating, and having fun on board before getting to America?! It's all kinds of sick and wrong.

[blenda]

Apparently if the titanic did not try to slow down and steer away from the iceberg rather than just hit it from the front the ship would not have gone down... The ship was built to stand a big hit and hole in the front but not from the angle it was hit... Random fact for you.

[Megatron]

YANBU I think it's ghoulish too. I saw some footage of it the other day and it was all very jolly and a right old jape.

My mum visited a concentration camp in Austria some years ago and said that everyone was totally respectful and wanted to know the history of the place, a lot for personal reasons. She said most were very tearful throughout. It had a profound effect on her. The Titanic thing seems different somehow, like it's a celebration of a sinking ship and so many souls lost, not a commemoration.