The Australian billionaire mine owner Clive Palmer has spent the last decade trying to build a fully functional replica of the Titanic.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Palmer addressed the project and explained what he hopes to achieve with it. As Palmer pointed out, his original plans to launch the ship in 2016 were delayed by several factors, including finding a solution to “integrate all the safety features and keep the design of the ship the same.” “This was a lot harder than we thought,” he said.

“One of the problems we had with the Titanic is that you have to make it safe,” Palmer explained. “You’ll remember, in the movie (Titanic) you had the guy on the mast shield saying ‘Iceberg!’ This was because from the bridge, you could not see over the bow. We can’t do that today. So we had to put a whole new deck on the Titanic,” he said.

The pandemic also hampered the project’s schedule. However, Palmer foresees no problems with future global health disasters because Titanic II will be a “Covid vaccine-free environment.”

“We don’t believe people should be forced to get vaccinated,” said Palmer, who funded a lawsuit on behalf of Australian police and paramedics who faced disciplinary action for refusing to comply with the vaccination mandate.

However, vaccinated passengers will also be welcome. “We must extend our hand in love and friendship to people who are vaccinated despite the side effects. We have to watch out for them. And they are all good people,” he said.

But Clive Palmer’s biggest aim with ‘Titanic II’ is to create an ‘international symbol’ of peace in an era of strife in Ukraine and Gaza and the Woke War (Awakened).

Palmer first announced plans for Titanic II in 2012 and again in 2018. Six years later, he did so again during a press briefing at the Sydney Opera House with the city’s famous harbor in the background. During the press conference he reflected on the lessons learned from the first ship. “We think about the musicians [που έπαιζαν μουσική καθώς βυθιζόταν το πλοίο], the lifeguards, the engineers… we also think about the Titanic and how it was designed by the Irish and other designers. We also remember the thousands of lives saved from the Titanic disaster because of the changes made to lifeboats and watertight compartments. All these things we should appreciate as part of our culture, part of our history. The only way we can really do this is to remember this, promote it and expose it as a value we can live by. And we see at a time when traditional values ​​are being threatened by woke people who believe that we’re not Australian, that we don’t all have the same rights… I want to stamp out these very revolutionary, very unorthodox ideas in this age of upheaval,” he said.

His team distributed an eight-minute video that has been around for several years, showing the layout of the ship and what each room will look like, with actors dressed in period costumes.

Passengers will be encouraged to dress in 1900s clothing, but it is not required, a spokesman said.

The ship will be 269 meters long and 32.2 meters wide, slightly wider than the original. 2,345 passengers will be able to board on nine decks with 835 cabins. Almost half of these will be reserved for first class passengers.

Palmer wants to copy Titanic, without a tragic ending and also wants world peace.

“We all know how to make war. We raise armies and finance wars. People know about it. But it’s much harder to make peace. To make peace, you have to follow it every day,” he says in a press release.