8. More Safety
Titanic II will have a new deck called the “Safety Deck,” which the original did not have, unfortunately. The safety deck will be located between decks C and D with the purpose of housing modern, enclosed lifeboats. The boat deck above will feature replicas of the original lifeboats, though they will only be for show.
Space for the safety deck was made by lowering decks D and below by 2.8 meters and lifting the superstructure by 1.3 meters, which then necessitated the removal of the Orlop deck, which mainly housed boilers. The lifting of the superstructure now negates the need for a lookout on the ship, though that is an old practice and is left to technology today. In addition to the original staircases, new ‘escape’ staircases are also being built into the boiler exhaust uptakes.