Comments on: Icon of the Seas https://habitablezone.com/2023/08/14/icon-of-the-seas/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:51:21 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2023/08/14/icon-of-the-seas/#comment-52186 ER Tue, 15 Aug 2023 23:49:43 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=100554#comment-52186 I don't want to say anything here. I'm afraid of being sued, Meet me at "Community". I don’t want to say anything here. I’m afraid of being sued,
Meet me at “Community”.

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2023/08/14/icon-of-the-seas/#comment-52184 RL Tue, 15 Aug 2023 22:56:19 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=100554#comment-52184 Noro-virus would be inevitable... 10,000 people- in a box... all with uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea... Not my idea of a fun time... However, if you live-stream it all so I can watch it all unfold on Netflix I might watch... Noro-virus would be inevitable… 10,000 people- in a box… all with uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea… Not my idea of a fun time…

However, if you live-stream it all so I can watch it all unfold on Netflix I might watch…

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2023/08/14/icon-of-the-seas/#comment-52175 ER Tue, 15 Aug 2023 03:10:37 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=100554#comment-52175 Icon is 365 m long and has a beam of 65 m. Her displacement is 250,800 tons. A cubic m of water weighs 1 ton. Below the waterline, her profile is a box. Cheaper to build and more efficient cargo carry, plus minimized wetted surface. She is flat bottomed, so nothing snags on the bottom of a shallow harbor. No graceful complex or compound curves on this hull, stability in a seaway is provided by computerized stabilizer fins and active ballast hydraulics. The weight of the bilge filled with water must exactly equal the ship's total displacement: 365 x 65 x draft = 250,800 draft = 250,800/23,725 = 10.6 m, or about<strong> 35 feet.</strong> Not even Jennifer Lawrence could get me to ship out on this tub. Icon is 365 m long and has a beam of 65 m. Her displacement is 250,800 tons.
A cubic m of water weighs 1 ton.

Below the waterline, her profile is a box. Cheaper to build and more efficient cargo carry, plus minimized wetted surface. She is flat bottomed, so nothing snags on the bottom of a shallow harbor. No graceful complex or compound curves on this hull, stability in a seaway is provided by computerized stabilizer fins and active ballast hydraulics.

The weight of the bilge filled with water must exactly equal the ship’s total displacement:

365 x 65 x draft = 250,800
draft = 250,800/23,725 = 10.6 m, or about 35 feet.

Not even Jennifer Lawrence could get me to ship out on this tub.

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