100 Years Later: Remembering the Titanic with a commemorative cruise

Director James Cameron may be remaking his Titanic movie in 3-D, but for the 100th anniversary of the sinking of this famous ship, Miles Morgan Travel is offering the ultimate 3-D experience: A live cruise visiting the historic RMS Titanic disaster site. Passengers have the opportunity to pay their respects in a memorial service while also spending over a week enjoying some of the same luxuries aboard the original ship.

Despite being said to be unsinkable, the Titanic fell below the waves of the Atlantic Ocean in April 1912. It was unthinkable that an iceberg would rip through the shell of the ship and send the vessel — and 1,517 people — to a tragic end. Being one of the biggest peacetime disasters at sea, it is subject to many retellings, including Cameron's 1997 blockbuster film. Thanks to Miles Morgan Travel, it’s also the subject of a commemorative cruise.

One of the memorial cruise ships, leaving from Southhampton, UK on April 8, 2012, is already fully booked, but there is another cruise liner accepting new passengers. Leaving from New York on the same day the Titanic first set sail, the Azamara Journey will depart on its 8-night voyage to Halifax and to 41°43'57"N, 49°56'49"W, the location where — 12,600 feet below the surface of the water — the Titanic rests.

Aboard these memorial cruises, passengers will indulge in a selection of food and drinks served on the Titanic while enjoying the same type of entertainment from when the Titanic originally set sail. Voyagers will be immersed in history as renowned lecturers present the history of the ship. Finally, on April 15, 2011, at 2:20 am, the time the boat sank 100 years ago, a commemoration will be held to honour the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

For more information, including the Azamara Journey cruise’s itinerary, visit titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk

— RJ Vandrish