Titanic - a history to remember

This morning is 13 April 2011, tomorrow ninety-nine years ago RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg on her maiden voyage to New York into the Atlantic Ocean. RMS means Royal Mail Steamer. She was a vessel that was meant to carry postal mails across the Atlantic. Titanic was a passenger liner. Even though it was considered as a luxurious vessel, it was not a cruise ship like the Oasis of the Seas. Cruise ships do not see speed as an important factor in their services. Cruise ships emphasize their services on entertaining their passengers and on providing itinerary to places that have been famous as tourist destinations. It was the worst maritime accident in the peace time. We still remembere how the accident was relived in the film starred by Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack and Kate Winslett as Rose. Actually, naval architects who designed the passenger ship had divided the vessel into 16 main compartments and double bottom. The 16 compartments had also been divided into 44 watertight compartments. Meaning that when the doors of the compartments were closed, water could not enter. However, the temperature of the sea that was very cold had changed the structure of the ship's hull. The steel plate of the hull became harder when it was in cold water and lost its ductility. As a result the hull plate of the Titanic had been more brittle in icy water. When she collided with the iceberg, it buckled the ship's hull plate and broke the rivets allowing sea water to flow into the watertight compartments.

The tragedy of the Titanic ship was a great lessons for all of the people who were working in the maritime industry. Safety has now become the main priority of the operation of ships around the world. The lifeboats that are installed in every ship now have to be able to carry all the passengers and crews in case when the ships experience emergency situation at sea. Radio equipment has to be manned 24 hours a day when the ship is sailing and lifeboat drills have to be conducted on every voyage. 
We have got a lot of lessons learned from the sinking of Titanic. Now the maritime technology is more advanced and the rivet joints in ship's hull have long been replaced by welded joints. Inflatable boats have been invented too. These improvements in shipbuilding technique should reduce the number of ship accidents. However, the challenge to the safety of passengers and crews of ships is increasing. Piracy is considered a serious threat for ships. Merchant ships that sail near the Somali waters and Malaka straits are now becoming the main targets for the pirates. Dealing with piracy, international community through IMO give green light to governments to protect their ships with navy personnel and naval ships. Even though the sinking of large ships have greatly been reduced, we must not ignore the pirates and other threats. Never forget that the seemingly calm surface of the blue sea does not reflect that our ocean is always at peace. by Charles Roring

Oasis of the Seas Hanging Stern Structure

In the official website of Royal Caribbean International, it is said that there are 2,700 spacious staterooms in the Oasis of the Seas cruise ship. How naval architects who designed the ship arranged the rooms in the superstructure is really amazing. They created a superstructure with a dug out or hollow space in the middle of the superstructure to allow the sun to provide natural lighting to the rooms of the cruise ship optimally - really a smart way of utilizing solar energy without the need of photovoltaic panels.   This efficient natural lighting arrangement makes the rooms of the cruise ship looks brighter without consuming a lot of fossil fuel to run electrical generator. At the stern area of the cruise ship, there is a hanging structure. I take the liberty to call it "stern bridge" because it is located at the stern of the Oasis of the Seas cruise ship. We may think that this hanging structure is a bridge that connects the port and starboard superstructures so that people can cross through it. This might be a good guess. I think yes, one of the functions of the hanging stern structure is to allow people walk through it to the other side of the superstructure. 

source: avidcruiser.com

As a matter of fact, in my opinion, from the ship's strength point of view, the addition of the stern bridge is to give more rigidity to the port and starboard superstructures so that they will be more stable. Stable superstructures will not vibrate easily. Vibration is mostly created by the vibrating forces of reciprocal engines inside a ship especially the main engine. Bad designed propellers may also cause vibrations. With the stern bridge constructed behind the ship, the Oasis of the Seas rooms in the superstructure will be more comfortable to the passengers. by Charles Roring

Oasis of the Seas Bulbous Bow

Oasis of the Seas is currently the largest cruise ship in the world. With a cruising speed of 22.6 knots, this ship needs large propulsion power. In this short article, I want to discuss a little bit about her bulbous bow.
Bulbous bow of the Oasis of the Seas is a bulb located at the front of the cruise ship just below the waterline. This bulbous bow is an integral part of the ship's hull. People cannot easily see it from above the surface of the water. If the cruise ship is at a harbor or being repaired at a dry dock, we can walk to the front area of the ship and then see the bulbous bow. The material of the bulb is the same as the material for the ship's hull which is steel. Its form is not like a soccer ball but streamlined oval. This kind of form helps the sea water to flow around the hull without creating big waves that are part of the sea water resistance of the ship. When I was still in junior high school, I thought that the bulb was made to break ice. After studying Naval Architecture at Pattimura University in the Moluccan islands of Indonesia, I finally know that the bulbous bow is made not to break ice layers in the polar seas but to minimize the wave resistance of a ship. Today most large displacement ships have bulbous bow installed at their front part of their hulls.

Source: http://photos.cruisecritic.com

Theoretically the effective power that is needed to propel a ship at certain speed is determined by the total resistance that it has to overcome. For the simplicity of explanation, the total resistance of a ship consists of frictional resistance and wave making resistance. In the form of formula, we can write it as Rt = Rf + Rw. If the size and form of bulbous bow has been carefully calculated and tested before it is constructed at the bow (or front) part of the ship, it will significantly reduce the component of wave making resistance of the ship.

Source: http://photos.cruisecritic.com

Bulbous bow at the cruise ship Oasis of the Seas is not a new invention. Most of large merchant vessels have bulbous bows installed at the front area of their hulls including the Thomson Celebration Cruise Ship from the Bahamas. With bulbous bow installation, the naval architects and marine engineers who design the ship can improve the ship's overall propulsive efficiency meaning that she can have better fuel efficiency. The purpose of this writing is to help customers of cruise ships understand the technical aspects of the ships without having to understand complicated formulas that are usually studied by students of naval architecture before they do more complicated tasks which are designing and constructing their dreamed ships.
I write this article to make introduce the study of naval architecture to anybody who is interested in cruise ships and other marine vehicles in general. If you come to this blog to find information related to Oasis of the Seas cruise deals and tickets, you have arrived on a wrong place. Please go to the official website of the Royal Caribbean International to get the required info. by Charles Roring

 Source: http://photos.cruisecritic.com

From the aerial view of this cruise ship, we cannot see the bulbous bow structure that is located at the front area of the cruise ship below the waterline

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Oasis of the Seas engine room
Oasis of the Seas propeller

Oasis of the Seas Damaged Stability Test

On the following Youtube video, we can see how a model of the Oasis of the Seas was being tested in a towing tank. This cruise ship would be expected to carry 6,296 guests (source: Oasis of the Seas Fast Facts). This is a huge number of passengers that has ever been carried by a man-made floating structure. To ensure that the ship is safe at sea, naval architects had to perform a number of model tests that are related to her resistance and propulsion as well as her stability particularly when one or more of her compartments are flooded with water.

In the Youtube video, we can see how a damage stability was conducted to assess how the cruise ship would react if one of her compartments was filled with sea water. The inclination of the hull would not endanger the safety of the cruise ship and her passengers on board. Although cruise ships with wider hulls have better stability performance, their damaged stability performance has to be calculated and tested to avoid catastrophic accident at sea.
Naval architects always have to prepare theoretical stability calculations to assess the metacentric height relative to the positions of the center of gravity and the center of buoyancy of the ship. The ship has to be able to restore herself to upright position when it is hit by big waves from the port or starboard side.
I believe that before she was launched, naval architects who designed the ship had fulfilled the stability requirements stipulated by SOLAS and the classification society which the ship is classed. Theoretically, the hull of a ship is divided into several compartments using transverse and longitudinal watertight bulkheads. When one of the compartments was damaged due to collision, ship crews have to close the effected compartment to prevent water from entering the other compartments. So, it is understandable to see hydraulic powered doors installed in certain rooms of Oasis of the Seas or other ships below their main decks. Usually when a hydraulic door is operated, it will close slowly and most often with an alarming sound and lamp to warn passengers or crews that it is closing. Because the hydraulic powered doors are made of steel and are driven by machines, they cannot easily be penetrated with sea water.

source: http://oasisoftheseas.com

In very rare cases, when a compartment has been filled with water and the degree of inclination is too big thus endangering the ship, another compartment has to be flooded to balance or to make the ship returns to her upright position again. As long as the minimum freeboard, to ensure that she will not sink, can be maintained the flooding of the undamaged compartment is allowed given that the decision to fill the compartment (with full consent from the captain) has been carefully studied based on the available hydrostatic tables particularly the flooding table of the ship. by Charles Roring

Oasis of the Seas Cruise Ship's Superstructure and Central Park

As the largest and the most innovative cruise ship in the world, Oasis of the Seas attracts the attention of thousands of naval architects and marine engineers. The superstructure of the ship that has a middle hollow area for central park is really seen as totally new approach in ship design. Most of the cruise ships tend to have superstructures whose cabins and other rooms were layered to a form similar to a pyramid. The higher the structure the smaller and the closer it will be to the center line of the ship.

source: oasisoftheseas.com

The central park of the Oasis of the Seas cruise ship has been designed with green trees that make the deck really look like a park on land. With translucent roof installed in the middle of the park, naval architects who designed the ship have provided smart solution for the day lighting of the lower deck. The space at the lower deck will look brighter but consumes less electrical energy. Layers of cabins on both sides (port and starboard) of the central park receive more light during the day when the ship is cruising in the middle of the sea. This approach makes this wide ship becomes more stable but without any dark rooms in the middle of the superstructure. We all know that wider ships are more stable but most often they have rooms in the middle closer to the centerline of the ship that do not receive direct sunlight.

source: http://www.oasisoftheseas.com/galleries2/27/lowres/zip%20line%20final.jpg 

Many traditional passenger ships whose width are bigger than 20 meters will have rooms in the middle of the superstructure and below the main deck that need more electrical energy for lighting. Personally, I see that Oasis of the Seas ship has better stability due to her wider hull but has better and cheap lighting power that comes from the Sun. Sunlight penetrates the translucent roofs and gives light to lower deck and at the same time gives light via hollow area to Oasis of the Seas rooms on both sides of the ship on port and starboard sides of the ship - such a brilliant design! This is a simple way of using solar energy without the need of installing photovoltaic panels.

source: http://www.oasisoftheseas.com/galleries2/27/lowres/CloseUpofCarousel_Night.jpg

Perhaps this is the  most popular cruise ship which the Royal Caribbean International has ever had. Her innovative design, her luxury and her stability properties will continue to be the focus of attention among naval architects who are now dreaming of their own ship or boat designs in the future. The conventional monohull ship with pyramid superstructure will not be as conservative as it was when Oasis of the Seas had not been constructed. We can expect to see the future cruise or passenger or even ferry ship has various new on board elements that are inspired by the design of the Oasis of the Seas. by Charles Roring

Oasis of the Seas Suite

The Royal Suite on the Oasis of the Seas is really luxurious. This cruise ship offers one of the most comfortable sea voyage in the world. With large queen bed and jacuzzi as well as dining room with dry bar, this suite can be considered even better than the suite rooms of many on land 5 star hotels. When I visited the official website of STX Europe, the company that constructed the cruise ship, I read that the cabins were manufactured and supplied in modular forms. This really accelerated the completion of the vessel and at the same time maintain the standard quality of each room in the ship on the same level. Please, see the following picture of the Royal Suite room:

source: www.royalcaribbean.com

Oasis of the seas rooms had been made on land workshops before they were installed on the ship. This enabled the construction works to be executed at the same time with the interior works. STX Europe claims that the Oasis of the Seas was the largest export of the country at that time because it was the product whose components or parts were built and supplied by a lot of companies that were operating around the shipyard.
The master bedroom of the Oasis of the Seas suite with sitting area and Queen bed provides enough space for the passengers and their guests to enjoy the sea voyage from the comfortable room. With entertainment center, and piano, the Oasis of the Seas interior offers on board components that are really luxurious for her guests.
I don't know how much a passenger has to pay for each of these royal suites but the price must be worth thousands of US dollars for a complete round trip to the Caribbean islands. Because I personally haven't tried one of them, I could only give a little comment about the Royal Suite rooms based on the pictures and videos that I see on the internet :-) Happy cruising.

Oasis of the Seas

I personally do not know the consideration behind the naming of the current largest and most luxurious cruise ship in the world Oasis of the Seas. By definition, Oasis is an area with water and trees, etc. in a desert or a pleasant place or period of time in the middle of something unpleasant, dull, etc. That's the meaning of the terminology that I read in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

Cruise ship Oasis of the Seas

So, because the cruise ship was constructed to be an oasis in the middle of the sea or say the ocean, it would become a meeting point for people from around the world. Similar to an oasis in a dessert in the Middle East where people and animals gather to drink and trade before continuing their trips, the cruise ship Oasis of the Seas can be temporary places where people refresh their mind and body from the stressful and hectic lifestyle that they have experienced in the city so that they can go back to their real world "psychologically with new spirit".
One week vacation tour on board the ship should not be seen as a spiritual pilgrimage because if tourists want to experience such journey, the holy land should be the recommended destination to go.

The journey around the tropical islands with this cruise ship is created as an affordable recreational choice for everybody who wants to see the marine environment not from a confined city aquarium but directly at an open sea. That's why the cruise ship itself has been made as one of the destinations for tourists who buy tickets for a cruising tour in the tropical islands of the Caribbean or Alaska. It seems that Oasis of the Seas rooms are still not enough to accommodate the growing number of tourists who want to experience the tropical beauty of the Caribbean islands, that's why the Royal Caribbean International ordered the construction of another new sister ship called the Allure of the Seas. 

source of all the above photos: http://oasisoftheseas.com 

According to the official website of STX Europe, the builder of the ship, 3,000 drawings were needed for the basic design of the ship. Five hundred naval architects, marine engineers and other engineers worked together to realize the design of the largest and the most luxurious man-made floating structure in the world. For the construction of the cruise ship, 30,000 workshop drawings were produced. As an experienced shipbuilding company, STX Europe has presented various on board elements that have never been in other conventional cruise ships. One of them is the board walk platform where passengers can experience walking around a park.
Environmental Concerns
I fully realize that marine environmentalists often express their concerns over the environmental impact of the operation of large cruise ships. As someone who used to study naval architecture, I am aware that ships, in general, produce wastes that pollute the sea. BUT cruise ships are not the only sea polluters. People living in coastal cities and towns are the largest polluters of the seas. So, the responsibility of fighting sea pollution is the responsibility of the whole earth's population and not the people who work in shipping, shipbuilding or cruising industries alone.
Naval architects and marine engineers who have been working in the shipbuilding industry need to find solution to this problem. On board sewage processing plants have to be improved so that harmful and toxic materials can be prevented from entering the sea. In addition, ship crews have to be trained to handle plastic wastes properly so that they will not be thrown into the sea. Rubbish collection trucks should be provided at every port to make sure that these wastes will not end up at sea.

Oasis of Life
I personally am a nature lover, I like being in an open nature watching all the things that God has created for us. If we love God, we must respect the nature. I has become our concern that our nature is now suffering from destruction, pollution. We need to stop them in order to make our natural environment as oasis of life again. Our love can be reflected through our lifestyle when we go to the beach, travel by ship or just standing on a river bank gazing swimming around on the surface of the water.

When we are in an outdoor environment, we must not throw plastic, metal or chemical wastes. If necessary, we can take sometime picking up some rubbish other people had thrown. By doing that we have helped restore nature to become the real oasis of our life. When nature is clean again, it will reward us with pure air, clean water and beautiful sounds of birds in the trees or colorful flowers.

How to restore nature as Oasis of Life
Our natural environment has been an oasis of life for all of us from generation to generation. Yet, the quality of our nature is getting worst. Industrial and domestic wastes continue to pollute our environment. Tropical rainforest are being cut at a rate of fifty football field per day and our air is filled with smokes and CO2 gases emitted by our car. Year 2011 should become a new moment from us to commit ourselves to the restoration of our natural environment. Simple things that we do everyday such as going to work by riding bicycle, picking up plastic and toxic wastes along the beach are our good contribution in restoring our nature to be a good living environment for all of us. Living in harmony with nature is not expensive. It is even good for our economy where millions of people are now trapped in debt. For example by consuming less energy through cycling, we can save daily fuel consumption where the money can go to finance our health care needs or pay off our debts. You don't need to request huge amount of consumer loan from a bank to buy a bicycle, don't you? So, if living in harmony with nature has not been part of your new year 2011 resolution, I suggest that you add it into your personal list. When you try to fulfill it, even a small thing that you do, nature will reward you with good things that you might not expect. by Charles Roring
Also read: Oasis of the Seas Interior

Oasis of the Seas Inside Tour Video

Still a little story about Oasis of the Seas Interior - the largest cruise ship in the world, I've just found a video in Youtube that can guide us into the inside parts of the cruise ship where we can see the Oasis of the Seas rooms and everything about the ship. The tour into the Oasis of the Seas starts from the harbor where it was berthing. There were a lot of people (probably visitors) walking towards the ship. The superstructure of the Oasis of the Seas cruise ship was painted with white color with rows of life boats were positioned hanging below the sides the main deck. The roofs that covers the boats were painted with yellow. There were also rows of cranes standing along the harbor. Perhaps they are used for the loading and unloading of cargoes. Before entering the hull of the ship, the cameraman aimed his camera to the hanging life boats. I can see that the submerged hulls of the boats look like catamaran. This hull form is ideal to increase the speed of the boat although its hull is wide. Catamaran hull form significantly improves the propulsion performance of the boats.

Inside the Oasis of the Seas, we can see rows of seats arranged in semi circular forms. Perhaps it is a theater. It is interesting to see that the naval architects who designed the ship created skylight that enables sunlight to penetrates the main deck and brighten the interior of the Oasis of the Seas. Such arrangement greatly reduced the electrical consumption of the ship for lighting during the days but is not a common feature that we usually saw in old cruise ships. Skylight is usually found above the engine rooms of small cargo ships.
I am amazed to see that the inside hull of the cruise ship is more spacious with a lot of public spaces for passengers to socialize or interact one another while traveling around the Caribbean islands. Big window glasses secured in triangular frames several decks high above the main deck are really a brilliant design concept done by the naval architects. Triangular frames are more stable to be implemented to the ship because they are more resistant to shocks and vibrations that the Oasis of the Seas will experience during the whole life of her sea voyages. The conventional approach of putting the cabins as close as possible to the center line of the ship is not seen in this cruise ship. Passenger cabins are positioned on both sides of the ship leaving a hollow open space in the middle of the ship for the skylight and park. Such placement of the cabins enables the sunlight to enter the rooms from both sides.

 

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Well, that's some of my comments concerning the interior of the oasis of the seas that are more dominated by curve lines. It's really a wonderful and amazing man-made floating structure. This video is really a nice tour for anybody who has not been traveling with this beautiful ship. After watching the video, you might be interested in finding cruise deals for your next summer vacation on board the Oasis of the Seas. One thing that you need to keep in mind, during the current economic crisis, that you should not buy tickets if your financial condition is not really good. Don't try to charge the cost of your holiday vacation on your credit card if you are not able to pay off your debt. Taking a cruise holiday can be good if you have enough money to do it and you will not be burdened by more debt after returning home from your holiday in tropical islands. by Charles Roring

Oasis of the Seas - Cruise Ship or Passenger Ship?

Last night I opened my webmaster.google.com account and found that the impression of keywords Oasis of the Seas is rising significantly. This is the name of the largest and the most modern cruise ship in the world. This motor vessel can carry around 6,000 passengers. She travels to the Caribbean islands.

Passenger Ship
As a traveler, I used to go by passenger ships around a number of islands in Indonesia. Indonesia is the largest tropical archipelago in the world. Ships of any kinds or types play very important roles in transporting people and goods throughout the country.
The big ships that I used to travel around with were the ones operated by PELNI - a state owned passenger line in Indonesia. The first group of passenger ships that were imported from Germany were MV Rinjani, MV Kerinci, MV. Kambuna and MV Umsini. MV stands for Motor Ship. The carrying capacity of each of these ships is around 2,000. During holiday seasons, PELNI allowed the ships to carry up to 2,500 people on board. The main propulsion unit is diesel engine. The diesel engine is used to turn the marine screw propeller, most often, the controllable pitch propeller (CPP). Electrical power for supplying the electricity needs of the ship is obtained from a number of auxiliary engines both installed in the engine room near the main engine or on the upper deck of the ship.

 

Passenger ship MV Bukit Siguntang operated by PELNI line in Indonesia 

The difference between Cruise Ships and Passenger Ships
Passenger ships and cruise ships are similar but not the same. Both of them carry passengers but their purpose are different. Passenger ships like MV. Dobonsolo, KM Dorolonda and KM Nggapulu in Indonesia go from one port to another tranporting people mostly on one trip. But for cruise ships such as the Oasis of the Seas and the Allure of the Seas. The cruise ships themselves have become the destination of holiday. The passengers usually buy round trip tickets meaning that they will finally return to the port where they first begin the ocean tour. Most of the passengers of cruise ships Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas who go to the Caribbean islands will return to, for example Miami, after they finish their tour. Oasis of the Seas Rooms are bigger and more luxurious than most of the rooms in passenger ships operated by PELNI.
Purpose of Sea Voyage and Facilities Inside
Because the purpose of traveling is different from cruising, the facilities that we will find in MV Nggapulu will be different from MV Oasis of the Seas. The Carribean sea may have been saturated with cruise ships but the Indonesian sea is not. In addition, cruise ships may be too expensive for the working class Indonesian people to travel around. There are bedrooms in both of the ships but Oasis of the Seas has more space for recreation. This cruise ship has swimming pools, game center, park, shopping center that we cannot find in most of the passenger ships that operate in Indonesian waters. The purpose of the trip determines how naval architects design the ship.
Design Approach 
Ship design is the product of art and science. Architects who design modern cruise and passenger ships now have a lot of software which they can use. Different from home architects who usually use BIM software such as Archicad and Revit, Naval Architects can now use Maxsurf, Delftship, Rhino Marine or Foran to outline design concepts in their mind into a beautiful cruise ship. They may use Archicad but it is only limited to the interior design projects of the ship. BIM modeling software such as Archicad does not have stability, propulsion, and strength calculation capabilities that most naval architects need to design a ship or other floating structures.
So, if you are planning to take a spring vacation in tropical islands in Indonesia by visiting islands of this largest achipelago by ship, don't expect to experience luxurious sea voyage in PELNI ships. The facilities of the PELNI passenger ships are quite good but not luxurious. The price is much cheaper mostly less than 100 US dollars for economy class per trip. If you plan to cross the islands from Sabang to Merauke by buying first class ticket, you will spend less than 1,000 US dollars (including meals which are served by the ship). The cross country sea voyage in Indonesia will take your time around 2 weeks.
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Oasis of the Seas Rooms
Oasis of the Seas Interior
Oasis of the Seas Propeller

Oasis of the seas interior

The interior of the Oasis of the Seas is unique and innovative. That's my personal impression when watching the video of the Oasis of the Seas for the first time. I was surprised to see how the naval architects who designed her superstructure put the rooms of the passenger cabins not in or near the center line of the vessel. It has been a long tradition among most ship designers to follow the pyramid rule for stacking the rooms above the main deck of the ship. This is to keep the center of gravity (CG) of the ship in line with the center line of the vessel. In addition, the lay out or the general arrangement of the ship is made symmetrical both in the port or starboard sides. It is surprising to see how the central park complete with the trees are put in the middle of this ship whereas the passenger cabins are placed on both sides of the ship a little bit far from the center line. Such arrangement actually is very good because most of the passengers cabins, including those at the inner side or near the center line, will have direct sun light. 

From its principle dimensions which I read in Wikipedia, the height of the ship is 72 meters. It is really a tall ship (please, do not be confused with the idea of sailing ship) because it poses the ship to have high VCG (vertical center of gravity) which is as a matter of fact is not recommended for passenger ship. But I believe that the naval architects who designed the ship had carefully calculated this very well before starting to construct her. The ballast system must have very good pumping arrangement that can stabilize the ship during bad weather or when the movement of mass on board the ship negatively influence her stability. An experienced naval architect prefers wider hull to make taller ship more stable at sea.

The interior of Oasis of the Seas rooms actually is not too different from the interior of five star hotels. It has restaurants, sport centers, entertainment center, shops, and swimming pool. In my previous article about interior of passenger ship and cruise ship, I stated that the facilities of both ships are not the same because of the different purposes of their voyages. Passenger ships carry people from one harbor to another. They need to be fast so that the passengers will not be bored staying aboard the ships for too long. 

A lot of passenger ships still operate in Indonesian islands. Their interior is not luxurious. There is no vacuum toilet or bath tub. For cruise ships, they are not designed to carry passengers in fast speed from one port to another. They have been designed to cater people who want to enjoy their holidays at sea. The materials and technology used in the interior of cruise ships are expensive and advanced. Besides using high quality porcelain and leather, on certain compartments, fire resistant materials are used. Every compartment of the ship will also be equipped with fire fighting equipment that can be used anytime in case of emergency. 

Also read: Passenger ships of PELNI lines

Oasis of the Seas Rooms

"Have you ever traveled by a ship?" If never, I think you should try it someday. I personally like to travel by boat, ferry and passenger ship. Yesterday, I opened my webmaster tool in Google account and found that the keyword "Oasis of the Seas Rooms" has got 11% ctr. I have to admit that I am surprised by this finding. Maybe many of you who read this post have never known what it is. Oasis of the Seas is the name of a luxurious cruise ship. It is even said to be the largest cruise ship in the world.

The rooms of the ship have been installed with luxurious materials that are safe for sea travel. Usually the chosen materials for ship interior are fire resistant. The suite rooms may look similar to the ones which we see in 5 star hotels on land but the quality is higher, I think. For example the lamps of the ships will have thicker filaments to make them more durable to vibrations from the propelling engine and shocks created by sea waves. The cables or wire in the ship have been manufactured to meet the requirements of classification societies such as ABS or LR for marine application.  They have to be well insulated to protect them from wet and moisture environment of the sea.

Oasis of the Seas is not only a floating hotel but a floating town. With a capacity of over 6,000 passenger, the ship must provide various kinds of facilities that people will need normally while living on land. From eating places to movie theaters and from internet cafe to health clinic or hospital, this cruise ship must provide such facilities. If one day you are planning of traveling with your family or loved one, buying cruise tickets of this ship is a nice attempt.
This blog does not discuss anything related to Oasis of the Seas Cruise Deals and Reservations rather it gives explanation or reviews about the cruise ship from naval architecture point of view. If you land on this page after typing cruise deals and ticket pricing of the ship, I recommend you to visit the official website of the cruise ship which is oasisoftheseas.com. There you'll find information that you need especially her itinerary, tickets and also cruise deals about her sister which is the Allure of the Seas.

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• Oasis of the Seas 
• Oasis of the Seas Interior
• Oasis of the Seas CTR
• Interior of passenger ship and cruise ship