Now this has to be possibly one of the most inventive and outrageously tasteless events of all time. You can recreate the voyage of the RMS Titanic (iceberg not included).

Bookings are available for 1,309 passengers – the same number that sailed on Titanic’s maiden voyage – and Balmoral will follow the same route as Titanic, docking at the Irish port of Cobh on April 11, 2012, where the star-crossed vessel made its final port of call exactly a hundred years earlier.


Continuing on across the Atlantic, on April 14 at 11:40 p.m., Balmoral is scheduled to arrive at the spot where Titanic struck an iceberg, and a memorial service will be held at 2:20 a.m. on April 15, to coincide with the time the massive ship went down.

It’s rather ironic, considering, that the health and safety page on the website makes no reference to lifeboats or evacuation procedures. In the event of any disaster the band’s bound to play, but if you are still on board when they conclude with Autumn (not Nearer My God To Thee, that’s apparently a myth) then you’re in real trouble.

We arrive in Halifax [Nova Scotia] which has one of the most moving and intimate connections with the Titanic disaster, playing a key role during the tragedy’s aftermath and becoming the final resting place of many of her unclaimed victims. There is plenty to see and do in Halifax; you will have the opportunity of visiting Fairview Lawn Cemetery where victims of the RMS Titanic sinking are interred.

This is actually for real. Truly the Apocalypse is upon us.

Hat-Tip: to the poor little Greek boy, who in turn hat-tips elsewhere.