This new luxury cruise ship is 5 times bigger than the Titanic – and it's scaring people: meet Royal Caribbean's epic Icon of the Seas, a 20-deck behemoth Twitter is calling a 'human lasagne'
People Also Ask
The Icon of the Seas, set to sail in the Caribbean in January, is five times the size of the Titanic. But it's unlikely to ever meet the same fate as the iconic ship, thanks to radar and iceberg monitoring. Royal Caribbean also says their cruise ships have enough lifeboats and rafts for everyone on board.
Six months before its maiden voyage, Royal Caribbean's massive new ship, the Icon of the Seas, is already generating an incredible response – and when you take a look at the pictures, that's absolutely zero surprise. The ship is reportedly five times bigger than the Titanic, boasting 20 decks.
Thankfully, very few cruise ships have actually sunk in modern history. Even so, the Titanic's sinking impacted maritime law so much that there are more than enough lifeboats for all passengers and crew onboard any given sailing. Within the last 111 years, over 20 cruise ships and ocean liners have sunk.
Syracusia (Greek: S??a???s?a, syrakousía, literally of Syracuse) was an ancient Greek ship sometimes claimed to be the largest transport ship of antiquity.
The Icon of the Seas cruise ship has completed construction in Finland and is entering the testing phase of production. The world's largest cruise ship will be ready for passengers in January 2024.
Most of the Titanic wreckage remains about 350 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, according to NOAA. The wreckage was first located in 1985 by marine explorer Robert Ballard, who returned about 20 years later to study the deterioration of the boat.
Sign up for the abc27 newsletters here. The dubious honor of the worst sinking of all time goes to the Wilhelm Gustloff, torpedoed by a Russian submarine on January 30th, 1945. She was crammed to the gunwales with German refugees, fleeing the advancing Russian Army in the waning months of World War Two.
Titanic II is a planned passenger ocean liner intended to be a functional modern-day replica of the Olympic-class RMS Titanic. The new ship is planned to have a gross tonnage (GT) of 56,000, while the original ship measured about 46,000 gross register tons (GRT).