Extreme Engineering: A Floating City

A tree filled park on a ship - because a swimming pool on a ship wasn't counter-intuitive enough. I know when I feel like a stroll through the park, I want to pay a few thousand dollars for the privilege.

Hopefully they will also be innovative with the lower class cabins. We upgraded when we took a cruise, so I don't have all the details, but apparently the base cabin is not much more spacious than the new Smartcars. Our 'upgraded' cabin was barely adequate, so I don't doubt that the base cabin was pretty awful.

Also, the plumbing required some complex manuvers to get it to function correctly. It's been a while, but it was along the lines of "Open valve A until .... then open valve B and close valve A. Finally ... "whatever, I think you can catch my drift.

From the creative minds at Pixar... :)

Anybody want to start bidding on offshore condos??? Since there very little forest left the next logical step is to star building on the oceans. What would it be like to be born and raised entirely in a contained city floating on the ocean. Could we revolt and start a new country that truly has no borders, move the entire country from the Gulf of Mexico to the South Atlantic????

Omg!!
Bet you I am going to be its first passenger!

Are your stats correct? The Royal Caribbean web site (oasisoftheseas.com) puts Oasis at 220,000 tons, not the 160,000 you printed on page 44. Also, it says 5,400 guests, not the 6,300. If you're including "crew" in that number then it is misleading.

Siress,

I thought your comment was very funny.

It's amazing to see just how far engineering has come. What's even more impressive is the decrease in amount of time it takes us to build these amazing machines. This ship is definitely going to be one of the best and I cannot wait to see it in real life.

Timothy
Boston Engineering and Construction

Of course, "Oasis of the Seas" was actually built in Turku, Finland. Not in Miami, Florida. Not that it matters, really. Location schmocation. Who cares?

Oh come on Quintus, you know us Euroweenies are all lazy socialists, we don't build ships like this ;)

STX Europe on the otherhand do :)

There is a full sized wooden carousel onboard too. They had it built by from Carousel Works in Mansfield OH. It's going to be installed sometime in April I think. There is one scheduled to be built for the sister ship next spring also.

These new highly advanced ships will have a hull design structure that makes them virtually unsinkable, so they won't need life boats. The maiden voyage will be on a course riddled with icebergs to test this theory out.

Virtually unsinkable! That's a contradiction and not correct! Our seas will take when it wants to. Rest assured if the seas whipped up a storm this boat would sink and or topple. The ship is just beautiful, and if I were to consider a ship cruise this appears to be the ultimate in luxury and somewhat excessive use of materials in order to maximize the benefits for the passengers. The maiden voyage was an resounding success and contrary to some of the negative comments, the green garden and park is very popular as is the boutiques, swimming pools and all the entertainment that is available on board.

Mark
www.liquiddesignmd.com

When I consider the size of our town, this boat is nearly three times the size and has capacity for more than double our population. This ship is fabulous design and will be the envy of most who cannot afford this luxury.

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