This "event" happened ON Wednesday in Lake Ponchartrain. Hows this for a Titanic Model! Too Cool.
http://www.nola.com/traffic/index.ssf/2012/05/titanic_in_lake_pontchartrain.html
As if Lake Pontchartrain Causeway motorists don't have enough to contend with during the heavy morning commutes, up paddles a replica of history's most ill-fated ocean liner to raise the ante a bit Wednesday morning.
Southbound traffic on the Causeway slowed to a crawl for more than an hour as drivers gawked at a 23-foot-long replica of the Titanic plying the waters of the lake about a mile or so from the south shore.
Causeway General Manager Carlton Dufrechou said the scene "caused one heck of a backup" starting around 8 a.m. and lasting more than an hour.
Intially, some thought it was a radio controlled boat. But Dufrechou said the vessel was manned.
"There's a human inside the doggone thing," he said. "I hope whoever owns it doesn't cruise at rush hour again."
Courtesy of Greater New Orleans Expressway CommissionThis photo was taken by a survey crew doing some work under the Causeway. Causeway officials said they did not know the identity of the man piloting the vessel.The Coast Guard in New Orleans received some calls about the vessel but "we did not deploy any assets to investigate it,'' said Petty Officer Bill Colclough.
WWL-TV later Wednesday identified the boat's owner as Mark Koch of Metairie, and quoted Koch saying the boat is 23 feet long and 9 feet tall. Koch said he purchased it on eBay for $9,000.
Maurice Guillot, who lives in Mandeville and crosses the Causeway each day to his property management business in Harahan, was caught in the tragic-ocean-liner-induced traffic and snapped a couple of pictures from his vehicle.
"Usually you get the traffic two or three miles out (from the southshore, where a flood control project has created some bottlenecks)," he said. "But today I hit traffic at five miles and thought, 'Oh no, this isn't good.'
"Then I saw what was causing it. It looked like a cruise ship. Then I saw it was the Titanic. Everybody was slowing down and looking at this thing."
More than 1,500 dies when the real Titanic sank in the north Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
Even though the replica's appearance in the lake caused another traffic congestion headache Wednesday morning, Dufrechou managed to keep his sense of humor in issuing a warning to the ship.
"We usually terminate our iceberg patrols on March 1," he said.
Some Tv Video of it. To get a reallt good idea of the size if the model/Boat/Cruiseship
http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/Miniature-Titanic-causes-a-stir-153113495.html?gallery=y&img=1&c=y#/news/local/Miniature-Titanic-causes-a-stir-153113495.html?gallery=y&img=0&c=y&c=y