cruise ship

Oasis of the Seas is a cruise ship in the fleet of Royal Caribbean International. The first of its kind, is expected to be accompanied by her sister ship Allure of the Seas in November 2010. Both ships are expected to cruise the Caribbean from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
It replaces the Freedom class cruise ship (also owned by Royal Caribbean) as the largest passenger ship in the world.

The ship was ordered in February 2006 and was designed under the name "Project Genesis." Her keel was laid on November 12, 2007 at STX Europe (formerly Aker Yards) in Turku, Finland. The company announced that the total funding for the Oasis of the Seas is said April 15, 2009. The name Oasis of the Seas is the result of a competition held in May 2008.

The ship was completed and delivered to Royal Caribbean, October 28, 2009. Two days later she came to Finland in the United States. As I ran from the Baltic Sea, the ship passed under the Great Belt Fixed Link in Denmark on November 1, 2009. The bridge has a height of 65 meters (213 feet) above the water, Oasis is usually an airflow of 72 m (236 ft). Go under the bridge was probably due to the retraction of the telescopic funnels, and an additional 30 cm (12 inches) was acquired by the effect of squatting on the ships with speed travel in a shallow channel is drawn deeper into the water . Approaching the bridge from 20 knots (37 km / h, 23 mph), the boat goes under in less than 2 meters (60 inches) clearance.

Procedure in the English Channel, Oasis pauses in the Solent to 300 shipyard workers who were on board to finish, then left on the way to her homeport in Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale land, Florida.

Oasis measures 225,282 gross tons, nearly half again as large as the runner-up, the Freedom class ships, and considerably larger than Titanic, of 46,329 gross registered tons. Head above water to move the amount of water needed for the ship and the boat remains stable, without unduly increasing the project, the designers a wide-body. About 30 feet (9 meters) of the ship is submerged, a small percentage of the total height. Wide, surface ships of this type tend to be agile, which means you can back into the vertical position after a wave has passed, possibly can be uncomfortable.

The ship strength comes from six marine diesel engine, three-cylinder Wärtsilä 16 diesel common rail produce 18,860 kW (25,290 hp) each, and three similar 12-cylinder engines each producing 13,860 kilowatts. The total of those living forces, some 97,020 kW, is converted into electricity, hotel systems used for lighting, elevators, appliances, stoves, running water purification and other systems used in the operation of the vessel and propulsion.

Propulsion is provided by means of screws at the end of the long shafts piercing the hull, as in most of the ships before, but three, 20,000 kW "Azipod" Asea Brown Boveri brand azimuth thrusters. These pods, suspended at the stern, each with an electric motor drive 20 feet (6 m) of the helix. If you run, without stirring the ship needed to carry out. Link with the help of four 5500 kW tunnel thruster.