Royal Caribbean Enlargens One Of Their Ships

Royal Caribbean couldn’t wait three years for their new ships to be built to fill the demand for cruises, so they expanded instead. What a green friendly way of doing it! The ship named Enchantment of the Seas was cut into two pieces and pulled apart. Check out the pictures to prove it:

royal ship 1

royal ship 2

royal ship put together

The ship now has the capacity for 300 additional vacationers. Here are the details for how the work went down…….

Initially, the construction crew used circular saws and torches to cut the ship at the middle. They cut through everything – the outer hull that was made from steel, the watertight inner hull, cables, pipes, even ventilation system. The swimming pool on the ship’s top deck was also cut. The whole cutting process took 2 days, and after it was finished, a narrow line of light could be seen traveling from the top of the ship all the way to the bottom.

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 enlargement of the cruise ship took about one month, during which the ship grew from 916 feet to 990 feet. This process, which took place on a shipyard called Keppel Verlome in Rotterdam, Netherlands, cost about $60 million, just a fraction of the cost it takes to build a new ship. Now the ship – Enchantment of the Seas – is able to enchant 300 more vacationers on each of its trips.

Source: neatorama.com, wtfurls.com