Atlantic Ocean: Port Canaveral65 miles east of Longwood Atlantic Ocean. Port Canaveral website. Major deep-water port of entry, 50 miles east of Orlando. Depths range from 39 feet to 41 feet.
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A U.S. Navy project for Port Canaveral provides for an entrance channel 44 feet deep to East Basin, thence 41 feet in East Basin.
That means the vessel has to be extremely wide to compensate for the weight-to-water ratio. Approximately 30 feet (9 meters) of the average large cruise ship sits underwater, but as you'll see below, there are more understandable ways to measure this.