News of the voyage of Titanic II has gone down very badly – 21 doom-laden reactions

A replica of the ill-fated Titanic is due to travel the route the of the original ship’s maiden – and final – voyage, in 2022 – a hundred years after the disastrous trip. The news was shared by Time Magazine.

Titanic II will set sail in 2022 following the same route as the original https://t.co/Vc7Pz7VJXI

— TIME (@TIME) October 23, 2018

Naturally, there are one or two points that have come to the surface. These 21 reactions show that people just have a sinking feeling about this.

1.

Clarification: not EXACTLY the same. https://t.co/L2yeuPXh7t

— Damien Owens (@OwensDamien) October 23, 2018

2.

Thanks to climate change it’s unlikely Titanic II will hit an iceberg, but there’s a high risk it will catch fire. https://t.co/G2mxPi0zSO

— paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) October 23, 2018

3.

Good luck selling tickets for a journey to 12,000 feet below the North Atlantic, somewhere just south of Newfoundland. https://t.co/rdBUJt7GW2

— Enough Of That Now (@AndyGilder) October 23, 2018

4.

Into the iceberg? Seems like a weird choice https://t.co/MCfdSywqPc

— Caroline Moss (@socarolinesays) October 23, 2018

5.

Luckily, by then there will be no icebergs left to hit https://t.co/aoRP58ksTr

— Dan Stewart (@thatdanstewart) October 23, 2018

6.

I'm so mad bc I thought this meant we were getting a sequel to the greatest movie ever made but no it's just a boat tempting fate https://t.co/gUVE8AFzw9

— Preeti Chhibber (@runwithskizzers) October 23, 2018

7.

Slowly converting our economy over to creating nothing except giant metaphors https://t.co/H6zOUxmN3j

— mcc (@mcclure111) October 24, 2018

8.

“following the same route”

Well, shit. The last two miles is really going to suck balls. https://t.co/bTBTER81kh

— Bantrim Smoot (@gilfer) October 24, 2018

9.

This time there's no sea ice to worry about https://t.co/7Eo0EuPkRq

— Boo Creepy Coffins (@ByCommonConsent) October 23, 2018

10.

All the way to the seabed? https://t.co/HXeoiCEe71

— barney farmer (@barneyfarmer) October 23, 2018

11.

Thanks to global warming, this route is now much safer. https://t.co/AE2vvSk5oE

— Daniel Hardcastle (@DanNerdCubed) October 23, 2018