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    Model of wreck Titanic (Footage)

    By Remcovs  |  Posted April 15, 2012  |  Vlissingen, Netherlands
     

    CNN PRODUCER NOTE     Remcovs says Ruud Kats spent twelve years constructing this Titanic replica model out of paper and cardboard. 'I find it striking that someone goes to the trouble to build a model of a shipwreck. Usually people make models of complete ships, not of wrecks,' he says. 'The Titanic is a legendary ship, and the demise is a legendary story,' he says. 'I find it special that people all over the world, even after one hundred years, are commemorating the ship, its passengers and its crew.'
    - Jareen, CNN iReport producer

    Made of paper and cardboard: Ruud Kats from the Netherlands made a model of the ship wreck of the Titanic. It took him twelve years. His model was on display at the National Titanic Commemoration in Vlissingen, the Netherlands.

     

    In the footage Kats says in Dutch why he made the model: "The tragedy with the Titanic appeals to a lot of people, also to me, because the ship is a legend. In its era, the Titanic was the largest ship, and wrecked on its first journey. When I saw the film footage of Titanics wreck, when the wreck was found in 1985 I wanted to do something, and this model is the result"..

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