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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How big does a wave have to be for a ship of that size to even notice it as anything other than a weight shift?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean I was really concerned about that as well, having been on the ferries which go from Turku to Stockholm. As I said though, they're kinda tiny in comparison. They're not like ferries between France and the UK or Ireland and the UK, but like more cruise ships.

    Icon of the Seas is like double the length of the cruise ships I've been on (Vikin Line Isabella ~160m, Viking Line Grace ~218, Icon of the Seas 360m) but the point I made once was that just a medium storm in the archipelago of Baltic Sea, that boat was going kinda hard side to side. As in the water in the pool splashed out like a third or something and you could not walk straight in the hallways. It was bloody fun though, one of my first proper times of getting drunk.

    We didn't really realise it at the time with my buddy, but the ~50 year old guy buying us 14-15y olds drinks in a sauna was probably a bit of a nonce.

    Anyway, my point was that if those ships go that bendy in the Baltic Sea, wtf would this do in the Atlantic? However, some engineer pointed out that 1) it's gonna be cruising in the Caribbean and 2) the stabilisation tech that's built in a ship so much larger per tonnage is gonna make it way more stable. Plus it's way newer so the tech is better as well.

    Because if the pool splashed around as much as the medium size jacuzzi we were in with the nonce, then I'd be scared to go to some of those top pools.

    I don't remember the specifics, but I do remember that the guy convinced me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The stabilization tech in the newer ships is just astounding even if it's ridiculous. Massive air jets blowing a constant stream of bubbles beneath the ship inorder to lower friction and increase buoyancy is just so neat plus the extending azipods for tight turn radiuses tighter than older smaller ships... Just insane engineering.

    If you would like to know what it would take to rock one though I do in fact know. The waves were 9.1m or 30feet high and wind speed at 125mph. Ship listed about 14° at the maximum which was enough to bend door frames in the interior ship, however the ship is actually rated to survive a list of over 45° or waves of 50feet in height.
    Anthem of the seas 2016.

    Also the pools are drained and no one is allowed in during those kinds of events as rocking water can actually cause people to be ejected from the pool and send them flying over the deck.

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