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If you’ve already seen the movie, memorized the memes and can hum “My Heart Will Go On” on command, it’s your turn to re-board—with a little more context and a lot more tech.
“Titanic: An Immersive Voyage” has opened in Boynton Beach (less than an hour from Miami), turning one of history’s most over-familiar tragedies into a walk-through experience that’s part museum, part time machine.
The show focuses on the details that typically get lost between Hollywood romance and the headline everyone knows. You’ll revisit the ship’s glamour and the catastrophe, but the exhibit also widens the frame to include the bigger cast around the sinking: Titanic’s sister ships, Olympic and Britannic; the rescue ship Carpathia; and the Californian, the vessel that famously remained nearby as the crisis unfolded. It even gives the iceberg its own origin story, tracing its journey from its “birth” in the polar region to its dissolution in the Atlantic after the disaster.
The experience uses “never-before-seen” 3D views, video animations and other immersive elements to put you inside the story via life-sized recreations and hands-on moments. One highlight: climbing into a lifeboat to relive the ship’s final, dramatic moments (brace yourself; it’s designed to be emotional). And for anyone who’s ever watched deep-sea Titanic footage at 1 am and felt that weird mix of awe and dread, there’s a virtual reality “submersible dive” that takes you 2.5 miles below sea level to see the wreck site up close, without getting anywhere near the North Atlantic.
The exhibit is running at South Florida PBS (3401 South Congress Avenue in Boynton Beach). Tickets are $45 for adults and kids 12 and under are free. The downloadable audio guide is included in English, Spanish or French, so bring headphones if you want the full effect.