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The Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas set sail on October 31st, 2009 and became the largest cruise ship in the world – for now! My problem is that every major news outlet is publishing stories about the transatlantic voyage and how it barely fit under a Danish bridge. We are putting a different spin on the story by discussing some of the more interesting facts and statistics surrounding the Oasis of the Seas.

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Height

Royal Caribbean’s Oasis class is not your typical sized passenger class as it measures 1,181 feet long. This is how the Oasis of the Seas compares in height to famous landmarks, if you were able to stand the cruise ship vertically;

Capacity

It’s no stretch of the imagination that the Oasis of the Seas rivals most the size of some American towns. This floating city has an estimated 8,461 people which includes about 2,165 crew members.

• It takes about twenty-one Boeing 747’s to hold the same amount of passengers on the Oasis of the Seas.
• The Prinzessin Victoria Luise (credited as the world’s first cruise ship) held only 120 cabins while the Oasis of the Seas has 2872 cabins and suites – that’s almost 24 times more rooms!
• The Oasis of the Seas has a gross tonnage of 225,282 which means you could fill the entire cruise ship with 56,771,064 casks of wine – if you were able to gut the entire ship from keel to funnel. This would be about 286,535,807 wine bottles, imagine that sight…
• The cruise ship’s twenty-one swimming pools and jacuzzis can hold about 5,070,632 lbs of water which is about 42,238,364 gallons of water.

Electricity and Power

The Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas has nine primary diesel engines producing approximately 97,020 kilowatts when running at full-blast. This massive cruise ship could technically do the following if the engines didn’t need to power the entire ship.

• Happen to have a few 100 watt incandescent light bulbs in your residence? In one second this cruise ship can produce 349,272,000,000 joules per second. Yikes. So with all of that nasty math, the Oasis of the Seas can keep about 3,492,720,000 of those 100 watt incandescent light bulb shining brightly.
• The nine primary diesel engines running for one hour can keep the average American household lit up for 103 months or 8.6 years.
• These diesel generators don’t just magically power the entire ship. The electricity is carried through approximately 3,300 miles (5,310 km) of wires and cables laced throughout the ship. You could technically lay down the entire cable from Anchorage, Alaska to New York City, New York.

Propulsion

The Oasis of the Seas is propelled by three rotatable 20,000 kilowatt Azipod azimuth thrusters and no need for a rudder!

• The horsepower of the ship’s three azimuth thrusters (80,400hp) is equivalent to the horsepower of 574 Honda Civic DX’s or 127 Lamborghini Murciélago LP640’s.

Money

In February 2006, Royal Caribbean ordered the Oasis of the Seas for approximately $1,400,000,000 USD.

• Investing the cost of the Oasis of the Seas in a high-yield savings account that earned an annual return of 3.00% from the day it was ordered to now, you would have earned $166,481,224 in interest.
• The current adjusted price for Da Vinci’s painting of the Mona Lisa is about half ($700,000,000 USD) the total cost of the Oasis of the Seas after accounting for inflation from the 1962 assessment. On a side note, there are also over 7,000 works of specially commissioned art located throughout this Royal Caribbean cruise ship.