The PR says that the new Royal Caribbean "Oasis of the Seas" is five times larger than the Titanic. It has its own climate and Wikipedia page. It is a small floating city for 4500. I live in a city. Why would I pay, to go to sea in floating one? I look at this vessel, and all I can see is a market top. In fact, the ship was commissioned at the peak of the housing asset bubble in the US. Bigger will never be better than this was, then. Its super-size begs for more not less grandiosity. Maybe a monorail straight from the airport to the harbor funded by taxpayers.
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The problem with these ships is they need a lot of depth....the dredging required is always very steep which hurts the surrounding vegetation.
God, that thing is HUGE. It looks like about 12 stories, if I'm counting correctly.
The bigger the ships get, the less appealing cruises are. The glamor is gone. My mother and sis took a Carnival Lines cruise a few years back and were herded like cattle. The courtesy of old was totally lacking. These floating cities are getting city-type problems, like crime.
Just think of the amount of wate that will be generated on that monstrosity..
"Cruise ships generate an astonishing amount of pollution: up to 25,000 gallons of sewage from toilets and 143,000 gallons of sewage from sinks, galleys and showers each day.
Currently, lax state and federal laws allow cruise ships to dump untreated sewage from toilets once the ships is three miles from shore.
Within three miles, cruise ships can dump sewage from toilets that has been treated by marine sanitation devices, which have been shown to be inadequate. In addition, sewage from sinks and showers can be dumped without treatment"
http://na.oceana.org/en/our-work/stop-ocean-pollution/cruise-ship-pollution/overview
but think how great an artifical reef it can make for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. I bet managers there are already licking their chops.
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