This is not, I repeat, NOT an AI Generated Image (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by MorelaakIsBack@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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The "Icon Of The Seas" sets sail in January 2024. 5610 passengers, 2350 crew members, 5 times larger and heavier than the Titanic, 19 floors with more than 40 bars, restaurants and bowling alleys

hop in a pool suspended five stories above another pool on the deck of a ship that looks like the result of a mad scientist hybridizing the genes of an airport duty free terminal, a private athletic club, a five-over-one and the Evergreen Ever Given (with just a splash of Six Flags for flavor)

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

I remember reading that cruise ships still don't have enough lifeboats for all passengers and I can't wrap my head around how that's legal.

[-] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

They have enough boats to evacuate the boat before it would sink. Well, that is the useual idea. Boats tend to follow shipping lanes and they rarely are that far from rescue. If the boat sinks like a rock you won't have time to get to lifeboats. If it starts sinking slowly you don't need to work that hard to putter people over to a rescue vessel in a timely fashion. It just doesn't make intuitive sense to us because the sea is a hostile environment in which we really don't belong.