From a frigid deck above Atlantic waters, a band plays a haunting tune.<br/> <br />A menu recalls one served nearly a century ago.<br/> <br />Some passengers wear bowler hats, many buttons, and layers of skirts...period dress for the time.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) CONNIE JEFFERS, TITANIC MEMORIAL CRUISE PASSENGER, SAYING:<br/> <br />"I was really surprised that the number of people we talked to and told that we were gonna go on this trip, they said, ooh, that's creepy, I wouldn't do that, and I thought I don't find it creepy at all, I love history. Both of us really just like history."<br/> <br />The cruise ship Azamara Journey is on course for a scene of disaster....the site off Newfoundland where the Titanic sank in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912.<br/> <br />One hundred years later, conditions may be eerily similar, the captain says.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) AZAMARA JOURNEY'S CAPTAIN JASON IKIADIS, SAYING:<br/> <br />"They're not going to be identical conditions to what they experienced 100 years ago. It's still very, very cold outside....Not quite as cold as it was but it's pretty close enough I think for most people standing on deck at 2:20 in the morning. There will be a little bit more wind, but the sea conditions hopefully will be very similar to what we have today."<br/> <br />The Titanic was on its maiden voyage when it struck an iceberg and began slipping into the sea.<br/> <br />Around 700 people were rescued but there were too few lifeboats to save the rest.<br/> <br />1,517 lives were lost.<br/> <br />Herbert Fuller Chaffee's body was never recovered. His great-granddaughter Suzanne Stroud says retracing the liner's ill-fated voyage will bring her closer to her lost relative.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE) (English) SUZANNE STROUD SAYING:<br/> <br />"Say hello and goodbye I guess, it's a once in a lifetime thing."<br/> <br />The cruise ship will reach the site of Titanic's shipwreck by April 15, in time to remember the world's most famous maritime disaster...<br/> <br />and hear again the song many believe the band played on its way down.<br/> <br />Katharine Jackson, Reuters.
