Royal Caribbean’s record-setting $1.5 billion, 1200-foot-long, 16-deck-high, 220,000-ton, Tower-of-Babel-on-sea luxury cruiser has finally set sail from Finland to Miami. I hate to be the one to ask but, um, there aren’t any icebergs on the way, right guys?
https://gizmodo.com/worlds-largest-cruise-ship-let-the-suburbs-travel-with-5018335
Royal Caribbean named this affront to god the “Oasis of the Seas,” which, yeah, is a super cheesy name, but it’s not like there’s anything subtle about a god damn 1200-foot-long boat. It’ll operate out of Miami and begin offering cruises in December. The Oasis of the Seas has a maximum capacity of around 6,000 people, which for the record is larger than the population of MY ENTIRE HOMETOWN. It’s about 50% bigger than the current frontrunner in the “Titanic 2/Icarus” competition, the Queen Mary II, so now you can all feel free to hop on board that ship, since the Oasis of the Seas (really, you guys had to brag about the several seas in which this ship will be an oasis? It’s really annoying, grammatically) is sure to be the one to sink in a blaze of indoor amphitheatres and miles of buffet lines. [Oasis of the Sea via BBC via The Awl]
