Poguemahone
21-01-2014, 03:26 PM
Plans to build a full-scale Titanic replica with an iceberg simulation in a Chinese theme park are in bad taste, a Northern Ireland politician has said.
The attraction in Sichuan province, about 930 miles from the sea, will let ***dreds of people at a time experience the shipwreck.
The Titanic was built in East Belfast, Ireland.
The vessel, the largest luxury ship in its time, struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. It went down on 15 April 1912, leaving more than 1,500 people dead.
Su Shaojun, chief executive of the Seven Star Energy Investment Group that funded the project, said "the universal love and sense of responsibility shown during the Titanic shipwreck represent the spiritual richness of human civilisation".
"When the ship hits the iceberg, it will shake, it will tumble," he said.
"We will let people experience water coming in by using sound and light effects ... They will think, 'The water will drown me, I must escape with my life'."
The attraction in Sichuan province, about 930 miles from the sea, will let ***dreds of people at a time experience the shipwreck.
The Titanic was built in East Belfast, Ireland.
The vessel, the largest luxury ship in its time, struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. It went down on 15 April 1912, leaving more than 1,500 people dead.
Su Shaojun, chief executive of the Seven Star Energy Investment Group that funded the project, said "the universal love and sense of responsibility shown during the Titanic shipwreck represent the spiritual richness of human civilisation".
"When the ship hits the iceberg, it will shake, it will tumble," he said.
"We will let people experience water coming in by using sound and light effects ... They will think, 'The water will drown me, I must escape with my life'."