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The Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world, has been on its way from Miami to the Caribbean islands since Saturday. Your first cruise is completely sold out. However, the ship was criticized by environmentalists because of methane leaks.
The largest ship in the world Icon of the Seas. | Photo: ČTK/Paul Hennessy/Anadolu
The Icon of the Seas secured first place in the world rankings solely due to its size with a gross tonnage of 248,663 tons and a length of almost 365 meters. It can accommodate up to 7,600 guests and 2,350 crew members, as if all of Ivančice, Litovel or Nové Město in Moravia had sailed the world’s oceans.
As mentioned by the BBC, passengers can choose from more than forty bars and restaurants or seven swimming pools and six water slides. CNN pointed out that the ship has some of the best of its kind in the world. New features include the largest water park at sea with an area of 1,579 square meters, the largest swimming pool at sea and the largest maritime ice arena where people can skate and watch figure skating performances.
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According to experts, this is possible Sea icon Override field rules. “This ship was definitely created as a direct competitor to mainland resorts, particularly family-oriented ones,” Colleen McDaniel, editor-in-chief of Cruise Critic, told CNN.
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This was finally confirmed by the head of Royal Caribbean, which owns the ship, Michael Bayley. “We didn’t create Icon as a counterbalance to other cruise lines. “It competes for passenger interest like any other land-based family vacation, from skiing in Las Vegas to a trip to the Grand Canyon,” he said.
Criticism of the fuel
A huge ship But for $2 billion, it also has its critics. What bothers them is that it uses liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel. “The decision to use this fuel is society’s biggest climate mistake,” Bryan Comer, director of the International Clean Transportation Council’s Maritime Program, told CNN.
As he explained, LNG consists largely of methane, a greenhouse gas that traps eighty times more heat than carbon dioxide in the first twenty years after its release. Methane escapes from the ship due to incomplete combustion. Royal Caribbean noted that its new ship is nearly a quarter more energy efficient than current ships, as required by regulations.
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Previous studies suggested problems with methane leaks, the BBC recalled. The British environmental group T&E said last year that the operation of LNG-powered cruise ships in the previous three years had increased methane emissions by 36 times in the English port of Southampton, where dozens of them arrive every year.
The British company Carnivale, which operates the affected cruise ships, did not comment directly on the findings but basically defended its ships. “The scientific evidence from the most credible peer-reviewed study is clear and shows that LNG produces far lower overall greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels, including the incomplete combustion of methane,” a company spokesperson told the BBC.
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Perhaps the most famous cruise ship any times, the ill-fated Titanic Modern ships are not comparable. Royal Caribbean pointed this out in its blog.
The launch of the world’s largest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, sparked mixed reactions:
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Even the Titanic was in 1912 shipwreck, the largest ship in the world. With its parameters, a length of 269 meters and 46,328 gross tons, it would no longer even fit into the list of the 64 largest cruise ships. Conceived Also less than half of the passengers that can be accommodated on the Icon of The Seas. On the other hand, in some ways it was cheaper. Its construction costs, converted to today’s values, amount to around 400 million dollars, barely a quarter of the cost of the new largest cruise ship in the world.
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