Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, has set sail from Miami, taking maritime engineering and on-board hospitality into new waters.
Large enough to accommodate 7,600 passengers – containing ‘eight neighbourhoods’, more than 40 restaurants and bars and seven pools, including the ‘largest waterpark’ at sea – the mammoth vessel’s impressive features extend far below the sight of most on-board visitors.
Powering Icon of the Seas are six dual-fuel diesel and natural gas tanks, with the ability to use liquefied natural gas (LNG), each weighing 307 tonnes and 90-feet long. Royal Caribbean said the technology allows for ‘virtually zero’ sulfur dioxides and particulates and ‘significant reduction’ in nitrous oxides.
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