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Construction of the vessel lasted two and a half years. A couple of days later, Harmony of the Seas arrived in Southampton, England, to set off on its maiden voyage to Rotterdam.
"Harmony...", like other ships of the company (all of them have the prefix "... of the seas" in their names), will sail under the Bahamian flag and have a home port of Nassau. The ship will be based in Barcelona.
Many times larger than the Titanic
The dimensions of “Harmony...” are amazing: 362 meters in length (longer Eiffel Tower), 18 decks, displacement - over 200 thousand tons! Being one hundred meters longer than the infamous Titanic, it is almost five times larger in volume.
City by the sea
The ship can accommodate up to 9 thousand passengers and crew members, a real floating city! There are even Helipad.
Larger than any ship that has ever been to sea
The size of the ocean monster is amazing even when compared with the previous generation of marine record holders - Quantum class vessels of the same company.
Preparing for the big swim
A couple of days after leaving the shipyard in San Nazaire, the ship reached the resort of Southampton. After some adjustment work, the vessel was brought back to normal operation.
Safety
Taking into account more than a century of experience sea cruises, and especially the sad fate of the Costa Concordia ship in 2012, the liner was brought to a state of maximum alert for incidents. The crew is carefully selected, exercises are regularly conducted, and the number of seats in life-saving equipment exceeds the number of people on board.
Crew
The ship's first crew will consist of 2,100 people from 77 different countries.
Passengers
“Harmony of the Seas” will accommodate up to 6,780 passengers. Despite its respectability, the ship is designed for passengers of different incomes; the owner company offers very affordable prices for cruises, and there are a number of promotional offers. More than 60% of ship guests are visiting Royal Caribbean International ships for the first time.
Entertainment for every taste
Like other cruise ships, Harmony of the Seas has on board all possible types of entertainment for tourists. The ship will have five-star restaurants, a casino, a theater, an ice skating rink, and more. There will even be a chapel with a Catholic priest.
Floating park
But this was not enough: the ship has a real park the size of a football field! In addition to 52 trees and 48 grape bushes, it will contain more than 10 thousand plants.
Price
The cost of building the ship exceeded one billion dollars, but, as the experience of the cruise business shows, this investment will pay off, and within a few years the cruise liner will begin to generate income.
Good luck!
Video review Harmony of the Seas:
After a trial four-day cruise, the ship will relocate to the Western Mediterranean and will sail to resorts in Spain, Italy and France on various routes. Let's wish “Harmony of the Seas” a fair wind!
People are always interested in what is superior to other similar objects in their strength, size, qualities, etc. This is why it exists, to celebrate the most outstanding objects, phenomena, people, etc.
1. Today Knock Nevis- most big ship in the world.
This tanker is designed to transport fuel.
Its length is almost 459 m and its width is 24 m.
The vessel's displacement is 565 thousand tons.
The ship was originally built for a Greek customer. But he didn't receive it.
After that, it was bought at auction by a Hong Kong company.
But in 1991 it was sold again; the new owner purchased it for $39 million.
This supertanker is included in the Guinness Book of Records.
With its impressive parameters, the vessel looks really powerful, and it is also painted in a spectacular red color. 
2. The largest cruise ship is considered to be “Allure of the Seas” (charm of the seas).
It was put into operation in 2010 and is still in operation today.
The average cost of such airliners is from 500 to 800 million dollars
Its dimensions: length - 362 m, width - 66 m, height - 72 m. displacement - 225 thousand tons.
The liner has 17 decks, about 2,700 cabins, which can accommodate about 6,400 passengers.
By the way, he has a twin brother “Oasis”, who is only 5 cm smaller than him, but in terms of characteristics they are the same.
It is a city in the middle of the ocean with everything you need for a great luxury vacation.
There are boutiques, restaurants, theaters, swimming pools (see:), cinemas and solariums.
There are VIP cabins here, total area which range from 50 to 150 sq. m.
3. This is not the best big airliner, but unlike the previous ones, it is very famous - “Queen Mary 2”.
It was built in France in 2003 and at that time was the largest cruise ship in the world, the dimensions of which are as follows: length - 345 meters, width - 41, height - 71 m. Capacity 2600 people
The ship also has all kinds of recreational facilities, personal care, shops, a library, a ballroom, a planetarium, 4, etc.
The ship was named after the liner "Queen Mary", which received its name in honor of the wife of the English King George 5 - Mary of Teck.
"Queen Mary" became the most big liner who traveled around the world.
This happened in 2007. The cruise, which started and ended in the port of Fort Lauderdale (Florida), lasted 81 days.
Size comparison with: man, bus, plane and Titanic. 
4. Disney Dream Cruise Ship , the length of which is 340 m. Capacity 3950 people
5. — length 333 meters.
6. Norwegian Epic — length 325.5 meters
7. - length 317 m.
8. — 311 m. Capacity about 3500 passengers
9. — 306 meters
10. Princess Diamond — 290 m. Passenger capacity 2600 people
These were the most big ships worlds that are beautiful not only on the outside, but also on the inside.
But time will tell what kind of ships will be sailing the seas and oceans in 10-20 years.
The largest and most famous for tragic events passenger ship in the world - this Titanic. Everyone knows the unfortunate story of this greatest achievement of the 20th century. The ship was launched in 1911. During its first voyage, it collided with Atlantic Ocean with an iceberg and sank. , weighing 163 thousand tons, took about one and a half thousand lives with it to the bottom. Only 700 people were saved; they were picked up by a passing ship.
After the Titanic incident, the level of safety on all liners increased. All engineers and designers involved in the construction of passenger ships began to attach paramount importance to the conditions for ensuring safety human lives. As you know, one of the reasons for the mass loss of life was the lack of a sufficient number of spare boats on the ship.
The best ships of the 21st century: top 5
The title of “The largest passenger ship in the world” passes from one ship to another every year - the rating is constantly changing. Ship models are constantly being improved, new requirements are being established at the local and international level, and high tech. In this regard, it is possible that in the near future new names of sea giants will be added to the list.
In this collection you will learn about the ten largest cruise ships in the world.
1. Princess Diamond. The weight of this vessel is 116 thousand tons, and its length is 294 meters. On board this cruise ship can accommodate 2670 people. The area of this liner is tens of times larger than the area Buckingham Palace. The ship has more than 700 high-class cabins with balconies.
2. Carnival Dream. This liner weighs 130 thousand tons, and its length is 306 meters. It can carry 3,646 passengers. This is a floating amusement park, which also has several cinemas on board.
3. Voyager of the seas. The weight of the vessel is 138 thousand tons, length - 311 meters. The liner has 3114 passenger seats. On board this ship you can find a television studio, an ice skating rink, a mini golf course and other entertainment. 
4. Celebrity Eclipse. This cruise liner weighs 122 thousand tons, and its length is 315 meters, which longer four Boeing 747s lined up. The ship has 19 decks, plus a lawn deck for croquet and bocce.
5. Norwegian Epic. The ship weighs 156 thousand tons, and its length is 329 meters. The cruise ship can accommodate 4,100 passengers. On board there is 24-hour pizza delivery to your room. 
6. Splendida. The weight of the liner is 137,936 tons, and its length is 338 meters. Its capacity is 3274 passengers. The space volume of the liner, which is one and a half million square meters, is larger than the space volume of the Eiffel Tower. 
7. Freedom of the Seas. The liner weighs 160 thousand tons, length – 339 meters. The board can accommodate 3634 passengers. This vessel is like a floating water park as there are all sorts of things on board. water activities: there is here waterslides, many swimming pools, a jacuzzi, a wave emulator, a water park for children and an ice skating rink. 
8. Disney Dream. The weight of this cruise ship is 130 thousand tons, and its length is 340 meters. Disney Dream seats 2,500 people and is almost an exact replica of Disneyland on water. On board there is a huge cinema and water park. 
9. Queen Mary II. The weight of this cruise ship is 151,400 tons, its length is 345 meters. On board can accommodate 2640 passengers. The length of the vessel can be compared to the length of 80 tourist buses, placed bumper to bumper. 
10. Royal Carribean. Oasis of the Seas. The length of this giant ship is 361 meters and its weight is almost 223 thousand tons. In conditions of maximum comfort, 5.4 thousand passengers can be accommodated here. Due to its size, this ship is not able to pass through the Panama Canal. The ship's board resembles an amusement park, where various shows are held every day.
Admiral Hood>> Yes, when so much water is poured in that the weight of the ship along with the water inside reaches the weight of the water in the entire volume of the ship, including masts and superstructures, the ship will sink. But if the mast sticks out on the surface, and water no longer flows inside (everything that could have been flooded has already been flooded), then the ship will remain floating like a submarine with a periscope, hey.
IGOR_MORE> A little wrong. The meaning of the action of submarine ballast tanks: by regulating the flooding of the volume, a certain overall density of the body is achieved. In other words (banally), the volumes of metal, air and other contents of the ship + the weight of the collected water are summed up. If this average density is less than the density of water, the submarine will float; if not, it will sink.
IGOR_MORE> The essence of the Capt(N) question can be illustrated by examples from practice, when torpedoed ships did not want to sink because of the cargo they were carrying. It would seem that the ship is loaded to its maximum capacity, but this heaviness not only does not sink it, but even keeps it afloat. This is where the ballast principle comes into play: by filling the volume, making the object heavier. Well, when there is solid forest in the holds, for example, no matter how much it is wet, the water will not immediately reduce the real density of the cargo, which means it will not fill the ship’s compartments to the level at which the ship with its volumes will assume an overall negative density and, accordingly, buoyancy. ..
I read your remark for a long time and carefully, but I still didn’t understand how it contradicts my remark.
As for the fact that a ship filled with light cargo is unsinkable, this is not always correct. If all the voids in the vessel are filled with water, then there will be a competition - who will win. Either the iron from which the ship is made will drag it to the bottom, or a light weight with positive buoyancy will keep it on the surface.
Example. A vessel with a displacement without cargo of 10,000 tons. Made of steel with a density of 7.8. Underwater with the compartments filled with water it will weigh
10,000*(7.8-1)/7.8 = 8700 tons. Let’s load timber with a density of 0.8 into the compartments. Every 800 kg of timber will create 200 kg of positive buoyancy. Therefore, to ensure that the ship does not sink under any circumstances, 8700 * 800/200 = 34,800 tons of timber must be shoved into it.
If the timber is 34,799 tons, then if the compartments are completely flooded, the ship will still sink.
Of course, it is unrealistic to flood all the compartments even if hit by several torpedoes, so a ship with a light cargo always has a better chance of staying afloat than a ship loaded with cast iron ingots :=)
P.S. By the way, it is almost impossible to fill the tanks of a submarine with water so that the buoyancy is exactly zero. Therefore, the vertical rudders actually hold the boat at the required depth. In the absence of movement, the boat can remain at a fixed depth for a long time only if it lies on the bottom.
