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A floating city that bribes you with buffets so you forget you can't leave.
means A large passenger ship designed for leisure voyages, where the journey itself—dining, entertainment, and ports of call—is the point.
from A compound of 'cruise' and 'liner.' 'Cruise' sails in from the Dutch 'kruisen,' to cross or move crosswise, related to 'cross' itself—originally what a ship did patrolling back and forth at sea. 'Liner' comes from 'line': a vessel running a regular route on a shipping company's 'line,' as the great ocean liners once crossed the Atlantic on fixed schedules. Stitch them together and you get a ship that crosses the water on a route built for pleasure rather than mere arrival.
- sewage capacity
- Largest ships process millions of gallons of waste weekly
- crew nations
- One ship may employ 60-plus nationalities
- private flag
- Many register abroad to dodge strict labor laws
- morgue included
- Ships carry small morgues for onboard deaths
- steel weight
- Biggest displace more than 200,000 tons
titanic — rms titanic sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg in the north atlantic
queen mary 2 — cunard's qm2 launched in 2003, largest ocean liner, transatlantic crossings
symphony of the seas — royal caribbean's largest ship, launched 2018, carries 6,680 passengers