Clive Palmers learns lessons of Titantic and includes safety deck in replica SHIP AHOY: Mining billionaire Clive Palmer, who wants rebuild the Titanic. THE Titanic II will stay true to the design of the original ill-fated ship, according to billionaire Clive Palmer - apart from one crucial change. Unveiling the design of his Titanic II, Mr Palmer said one of the key differences to the original would be a safety deck. "It's got an extra deck and that extra deck is nothing like the original," Mr Palmer told media in Brisbane ahead of a Titanic II gala dinner in China. "It's a safety deck full of Atlantic-class life boats with tops on them so that whatever happens you will survive in the sea," he said. And they all have their own power. We have an extra capacity of 700 normal lifeboats on top than we actually need, which is the same as the original Titanic. On that safety deck you've got a casino theatre, business centre, all the sort of modern cons of a normal situation. But the rest of the decks above that where the passengers will go will look the same as the original Titanic. Mr Palmer gave Brisbane media a preview of a video that was to be aired last night to 700 guests at the gala dinner in Macau. While Mr Palmer said he would not be among the guests at the dinner due to business commitments keeping him in "boring Brisbane," he said he had decided to hold a media conference to ensure his home state was not left out of the celebrations. A video presentation on the design showed the recreation of the Titanic's grand staircase and fine dining rooms. Mr Palmer said many people fell in love with the story of the Titanic after watching James Cameron's blockbuster based on the disaster. But for him, rebuilding the Titanic was more a case of "why not?" "It was when I was in China and the Chinese wanted to get involved in the cruise shipping market and I said let's build the Titanic," he said. So why not?