Posted on 11/14/2009 1:49:48 PM PST by JoeProBono
Oasis of the Seas, larger than life on the ocean's horizon Friday morning, swaggered into Port Everglades, sounding her horn as a crowd of onlookers at John U. Lloyd State Park beach let out a cheer.
``Wow!'' cried one early riser, joining revelers with binoculars and blankets to greet the 225,000-ton megaship. `It's so amazing!'' shrieked another. ``It's huge.''
The world's largest cruise ship was accompanied by a flotilla of small boats and doused by water cannons as she headed into her new home port.
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I have a picture of CVN-76 going past that same spot. I think this ship is bigger.
Looks like a place to put the “displaced” in the event of another hurricane.
I wouldn't want to be on the top deck in rough seas, I don't care what they use for countering roll or pitch.
(ps. Its a long walk from the top decks to the life boats) (wouldn't it be easier just to wait a little while, they'd eventually come UP to you ;)
I assume they have some pretty good security against Somali-style pirate attacks.
Unfortunately, surface to surface missiles aren’t that hard to come by.
Roughly 8,000 people on board. Quite a coup for AQ.
“Thats what I thought too,not a pretty ship
Bet it handles like a UPS truck in a big gale force
wind”
Yeah, and besides that, it looks like a prison ship.
Oh God! That made me laugh out loud!!
I would like to see a diagram of it compared to the Titanic, a modern aircraft carrier, oil tanker, and super cargo ship.
It is also the world’s ugliest cruise ship. It looks very much like a Toyota auto transporter. Huge and really ugly.
I have cruised out of Port Everglades several times. That ship is HUGH! (I’m series.) I don’t know how the Caribbean ports are going to handle so many people. They are already getting crowded, what with 4 or 5 normal-sized ships in a port on a given day.
hey thanks!
That second view looks like a big boom box.
I have the same reaction, but think of it as a floating Las Vegas.
Went on a seven day Caribbean tour one time. Enjoyed myself but really not my cup of tea.
And yet - we cannot repeat it too often - to create an artificial island that moves on the surface of the seas, is it not to overstep the limits assigned to human genius, and is it not forbidden man, who disposes not of the winds or the waves, to so recklessly usurp the functions of the Creator?
I served on CVA-42, the FDR, 1960-62. The ship was almost 1000 ft. long, had about 5000 personnel (though designed for only about 4000), carried 100 aircraft and the flight deck was about 65 ft. above the water.
It was only 55,000 tons, so the Oasis of the Sea is over FOUR TIMES as large at 225,000 tons! Amazing!
Notice how it wasn’t built in America. Our politicians have sold this country out. We don’t build anything here.
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