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Currently under construction, these pictures offer a first glimpse of the luxury that awaits passengers on the world's largest cruise liner.
The Oasis of the Seas will be a state-of-the-art travelling city complete with a shopping mall, numerous bars and restaurants, and an outdoor amphitheatre the size of a football field with its own micro-climate and rock-climbing walls.
The 220,000 tonne behemoth - which will be 1,081ft long and tower 213ft above the water line - will have a staggering 16 passenger decks.
She is currently being built at a cost of £610million in Aker Yards in Turku, Finland and is due to set sail next year.
Designed under the name Project Genesis, she was rechristened O |
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Hurricane Ike has forced a number of cruise lines to change the itineraries of ships operating in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Here's a summary of the itineraries impacted, by cruise line:
Carnival Liberty September 6 departure from Miami: The ship will replace the scheduled Eastern Caribbean itinerary with visits to Grand Cayman (Monday), Cozumel (Tue.), Belize (Wednesday) and Isla Roatan (Thursday)
Carnival Miracle September 6 departure from New York: The ship will replace the scheduled call in Grand Turk with a visit to Tortola (Thur.)
Carnival Fascination September 8 departure from Miami: The ship will visit Nassau (Wednesday) and Freeport (Thursday)
Carnival Imagination September 8 depar |
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Some topics make us queasy. And for that reason, we try not to think about them. Like: what happens to all of the waste that a cruise ship generates? The average ship has hundreds of bathrooms, and, according to Women's Health magazine, produces 210,000 gallons of sewage per week. But they can't just dump that waste out, right?
...Think again. Laws state that ships must be at least three nautical miles from land to dump treated sewage, or 12 nautical miles for untreated sewage and pulped food waste. Some ships do hold the waste until they get to land, but by 2010, all cruise ships will be required to have a sewage treatment plant or a sewage holding tank for their waste.
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