How to Enlarge a Ship

Posted by Miss Cellania in Car & Vehicle on November 5, 2008 at 11:30 am


Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines couldn’t wait three years for new ships to be built to fill the demand for cruises, so they expanded instead. The ship named Enchantment of the Seas was cut into two pieces and pulled apart!

After that, the construction crew moved the two halves of the ship away from each other, and positioned a huge 73 foot, 2,500 ton section (which contained 151 furnished rooms) between them. Then came the final part – reattaching cables, pipes and everything else – a process that took two weeks.

The ship now has the capacity for 300 additional vacationers. Link -via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories


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9 comments to "How to Enlarge a Ship"

  1. Behemoth
    November 5th, 2008 at 11:45 am

    It's a "cut and shut"!!

  2. RNB
    November 5th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Not too different from the way the Air Force and Lockheed-Georgia turned C-141A cargo planes into C-141Bs.

  3. redphone
    November 5th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    It seems clever (the planes too, that RNB mentioned), but wouldn't that be a weak spot in the structure?

    I'm sure they've dealt with that. Still, I'd be scared stiff in rough seas.

  4. SD1
    November 5th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    Can you say

    glugglugglugglug.............?

  5. Ali S.
    November 5th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    I'd be scared silly thinking that at any moment the ship will break into two.

  6. TRK
    November 5th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    Well, I wasn't scared at all when I was aboard her. My only complaint was that the food wasn't as good as NCL's.

  7. Christophe
    November 5th, 2008 at 11:48 pm

    I'm amazed. 1 month only. Wow.

  8. Bruno
    November 6th, 2008 at 12:23 am

    This is nothing new for Canadians living on Vancouver Island. Several vessels in our car ferry fleet have not only been lengthened in this manner, but have also had an additional deck added vertically.

    More info here: http://www.geocities.com/ferries_bc/profiles/bcf_qnwest.html

  9. Xose
    November 6th, 2008 at 5:21 am

    This is a very usual system, it's called offshore.


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