Did you just Godwin a thread about cruise ship modification? 
no it didn’t. But a glance at the report doesn’t seem to implicate the “1992-1993 major conversion” (lengthening of the ship by 90 feet) Rather, it points to the “2005-2006 conversion” (lift-on/lift-off (LO/LO) container stacks ). Also, the crew didn’t take lifeboat training seriously.
however, I’m not a sailor, or a naval architect.
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Labor costs. Example: Feeding another 1000 people takes 2-3 additional people, but building another ship means another kitchen crew, from junior dishwasher to pastry chef.
Multiply that times every job class.
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You might like the work of Nychos, graffiti cross-sections of cartoon characters and people https://www.instagram.com/nychos/?hl=en
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How so?
The whole ship is a modular steel construction, including the hull.
You’d make the cut at a position where two original modules were joined, insert an additional module that fits, i.e. is compatible (if not identical) to the existing modules, and join them using the same methods as before.
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You get a like for the sentiment, but I wish I had an extra like to award merely for use of the term ‘boatage’.
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Came here just to see if someone had done this yet.
Military precision?
“rarely performed feat of maritime architecture.”
I live near a Shipyard, and they literally do this all the time. About 2/3 of the work they do over there is ‘embiggen’ existing ships in some way. And putting in an extra section is more or less a routine job.
Maybe it’s a bit more cumbersome on a cruise ship, with all these decks and huts to re-attach? But on Freighters it’s par for the course. AFAIK they are built with potential elongation at a later stage in mind.
Still, even with cruiseships I have seen this picture (with different ships) at least 5 times before in the nautical newspaper I sporadically read , so it can’t be that rare.
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Is this big enough for you?
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It was built ten years ago when they may not have had the money, or their shipbuilder may not have had the capacity to build it any larger at that time. This increase will bring this ship up to the same size as their current flagship, without costing nearly as much as a new ship.
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“There was a little accident with that cargo of monofilament, sir.”
“Never mind… send out a press statement that we meant to do that.”
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Nope:
“This is the Liparus, the latest addition to the Stromberg fleet, launched nine months ago. Over a million tons, it’s the largest tanker in the world.”
“After the Karl Marx, of course.”
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4K version of that video, with extra footage after the release from drydock:
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This shipporn - and cutaway porn, h/t to @HMSGoose - is highly appreciated and needs to continue. Bonus points to @Brainspore for the Iron Man Spiderteen reference and to @JohnEightThirty for Blohm & Voss.
Can we haz a kwartet of cutaway cruise ships, plz?
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I really don’t understand the fuss here. prefabricated parts bolted together is exactly how these ships are built in the first place. This will have utterly negligible impact on the ships hull integrity, if modular construction was an issue, it had it since day one anyway…
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ever played any of the Commandoes PC games? they are basically interactive WWII isometric cutaways. particularly Commandoes 2…
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Jeeze, thanks for the nightmare fuel, guy!
Kidding, that’s some cool stuff. Reminds me of a joke my daughter told me:
Doctor: Your X-rays are back. Hmmm, that’s what I was afraid of.
Patient: What?
Doctor: Skeletons.
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