How’s this for unnecessary [faux] luxury: Royal Caribbean’s “Oasis of the Seas” will be the largest ship to every float on water, coming in at 1,180 feet long and weighing a cool 220,000 tons. All that, just to parade around 5,400 n’er-do-wells.
And while you’re struggling to make sense out of your everyday expenses, know that Royal Caribbean spent $1.24 billion making the ship.
Other gems include an onboard tattoo parlor and psychic, and a football field-sized park located in the middle of the ship called, appropriately enough, Central Park.
I’ll take the stateroom next to the psychic’s so that I get information ahead of time about the boat sinking.
I wonder if DiCaprio will do the sequel?
The maritime blogs have been reporting on this and much cooler ship stories for a year now but one mention from Boing Boing and you guys salavate. Lazy Bast$@$@!
Cheers,
Capt. John
This is old-hat but still neat… hopefully they invest as much money on counter measures… this will be a huge floating target for those who have not the best intentions in this world.
I am guessing this boat won’t make a trip around the horn of Africa anytime soon.
Jon
http://dreamclue.com …get the message!