getting ready to build the latest version of the Titanic

A billionaire from Australia, Clive Palmer, getting ready to build the latest version of the Titanic set sail at the end of 2016.

Clive Palmer has launched a blueprint for the construction of one of these famous ships in the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. The plan is an ambitious project construction will be done in China.

Palmer claimed as many as 40 thousand people have expressed interest in buying tickets inaugural voyage from Southampton, England to New York, United States.

"We all live on this planet, we all breathe the same air, and of course the Titanic is about the things we know," he said as quoted from Argusleader.com, Monday (04/03/2013).

Ocean liner Titanic was the largest and most luxurious in the world that hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank on 15 April 1912. Only 700 people from more than 2,200 people on board who survived the most famous maritime disaster in history. Some died because there were not enough lifeboats to carry everyone.

"One of the benefits of global warming is the absence of an iceberg in the North Atlantic today," said Palmer.

Passengers of the Titanic replica will be dressed in period clothing and eating dishes from the original menu, in the dining room which is exactly the same as the original. The ship will also be the safest cruises in the world.

Palmer who funded the construction of the ship alone, made ​​his fortune in the housing sector and coal. Magazine Business Review Weekly (BRW) Australia Palmer wealth estimated in last year worth U.S. $ 4 billion, although Forbes puts it at about U.S. $ 895 million.

"I want to spend the money I had before I die," he said. (Ndw)