[iol Travel]
The world’s biggest Titanic visitor attraction opens in the ship’s Belfast birthplace this month, 100 years to the day since the doomed liner was completed in the same yards. …
A ride carries visitors through the sights, sounds and smells of the Harland and Wolff shipyard, while the liner’s launch is seen on a glass screen which then reveals a view of the actual slipway outside where Titanic was built.
An ingenious “3D cave” allows visitors to ‘travel’ straight up from the giant engine room through the ship’s decks to the bridge.
In the section on the sinking, the lights dim, the temperature plunges; the horror and heroism is retold, though here it is cast as just one part of Titanic’s story. …
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