This new luxury cruise ship is 5 times bigger than the Titanic – and it’s scaring people: meet Royal Caribbean’s epic Icon of the Seas, a 20-deck behemoth Twitter is calling a ‘human lasagne’
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Six months before its maiden voyage, Royal Caribbean’s massive new ship, the Icon of the Seas, is already generating an incredible response – and when you take a look at the pictures, that’s absolutely zero surprise.
The ship is reportedly five times bigger than the Titanic, boasting 20 decks. Coming in at 1,198 feet (365 metres) long and 250,800 tons, the cruiseliner will be able to hold more than 7,000 people.
It’s area is split into eight themed “neighbourhoods”. It will have a surf simulator, dozens of restaurants and bars, and the largest swimming pool and water park at sea – and even includes a miniature Central Park.
Renderings of the vessel are making the rounds again on social media, following news late last month that it completed its first sea trials in the ocean.
There are lots of identifiable threats to our safety that might be triggered by this image
And along with the hype, there’s been an almost-inevitably round of online haters.