Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/23/massive-cruise-ship-sliced-in.html
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Any engineering aficionados care to calculate what additional loads the extension will put on the hull and how safe doing such an operation really is?
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Somewhere, Wes Anderson has the weirdest boner. (me too, to be honest. I fucking love a good cutaway…)
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Shouldn’t the term be ‘more bigly’ instead of embiggen?
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They are kind of built in big modules, so maybe, but… there is a tiny voice that says “remember the name of that ship and never set foot on her” But if it squeezes another nickel of profit by gum they’ll do it!
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They’re probably built in sections anyway. I suspect that it’s just a case of inserting another section.
There shouldn’t be much in the way of bending moments on a properly loaded boat.
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Maybe they forgot to put in the section when they first built it.
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That’s a helluva way to drain the top deck pool.
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This is kinda cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I51m3AI6hyA and shows how modular they are.
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I’m kinda picturing this…
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“That which does not sink you makes you larger.”
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I was goin to make a snarky comment, but then I remembered that I have absolutely no engineering experience.
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so that they can inset a 15 meter (50 feet) extension and increase the ship’s capacity by 15 percent.
Coincidentally, I’m experiencing a 15% increase in my desire to never set foot on a cruise ship.
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I’m in the same boat (pun intended); at some point years from now, there will be a news headline about a boat cracking in half in a storm, hundreds drowning, and I’ll say quietly to myself “wait, wasn’t that the ship they did the thing with the thing, once?”
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Paging Liu Cixin.
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By then, they’ll have changed the name many times.
e.g. Oriental Nicety, formerly Exxon Valdez, Exxon Mediterranean, SeaRiver Mediterranean, S/R Mediterranean, Mediterranean, and Dong Fang Ocean
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This is going to end well
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