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They don't get much bigger than this one:
========================= http://tinyurl.com/98p9k Tuesday, February 07, 2006 John Pain Associated Press Miami -- Royal Caribbean International on Monday ordered the world's largest and most expensive cruise ship, a $1.24 billion vessel that will hold up to 6,400 passengers. It's the latest step in the industry trend of supersizing ships, which delight many passengers but are too crowded for other guests. The ship, dubbed Project Genesis, will be 220,000 gross registered tons when it is delivered to the world's second-largest cruise operator in fall 2009 by Oslo, Norway-based shipbuilder Aker Yards. Gross registered tons is a standard way to measure a ship's size and is a unit of volume equal to about 100 cubic feet. The ship will weigh about 100,000 tons based on displacement. A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier comes in at about 97,000 tons. ===================== |
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They don't get much bigger than this one: ========================= http://tinyurl.com/98p9k Tuesday, February 07, 2006 John Pain Associated Press Miami -- Royal Caribbean International on Monday ordered the world's largest and most expensive cruise ship, a $1.24 billion vessel that will hold up to 6,400 passengers. It's the latest step in the industry trend of supersizing ships, which delight many passengers but are too crowded for other guests. The ship, dubbed Project Genesis, will be 220,000 gross registered tons when it is delivered to the world's second-largest cruise operator in fall 2009 by Oslo, Norway-based shipbuilder Aker Yards. Gross registered tons is a standard way to measure a ship's size and is a unit of volume equal to about 100 cubic feet. The ship will weigh about 100,000 tons based on displacement. A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier comes in at about 97,000 tons. ===================== Send it here. The bigger the better! (free spending American tourists) |
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![]() JimH wrote: They don't get much bigger than this one: ========================= http://tinyurl.com/98p9k Tuesday, February 07, 2006 John Pain Associated Press Miami -- Royal Caribbean International on Monday ordered the world's largest and most expensive cruise ship, a $1.24 billion vessel that will hold up to 6,400 passengers. It's the latest step in the industry trend of supersizing ships, which delight many passengers but are too crowded for other guests. The ship, dubbed Project Genesis, will be 220,000 gross registered tons when it is delivered to the world's second-largest cruise operator in fall 2009 by Oslo, Norway-based shipbuilder Aker Yards. Gross registered tons is a standard way to measure a ship's size and is a unit of volume equal to about 100 cubic feet. The ship will weigh about 100,000 tons based on displacement. A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier comes in at about 97,000 tons. ===================== They do in theory!: http://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...n/1289186.html |
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