Cruise ships are truly spectacular: those of you who have been on a cruise in the last year? Here you are 5 interesting facts about these huge boats, that you can not help but tell! Enjoy it, friends!
5. World Pollution
Cruise ships are those that pollute the most, as many of you know. Their engines are in need of large amounts of fuel to move. Do you think that a cruise ship carrying 3,000 passengers needs 800,000 liters of fuel to move one week! The sewage is discharged into the sea, five kilometers from the coast minimum.
4. The morgue board
Every cruise ship, nowadays, has a morgue, because the passenger has an average age of 40-50 years and, according to some analyzes, the longer the cruise and the more you raise the average age of the passengers. Occur frequently died of natural causes, while traveling, so it was inevitable to include a morgue, which typically has the capacity to hold 1-3 bodies.
3. Flags of convenience
How many times during commercials cruise ships you see the flags of countries such as Panama, India, Egypt, and many others? These "flags of convenience", also called "flags of convenience" or convenience. You enter a country, hoisted by a ship obviously of another nation: the owner, thus avoiding the payment of taxes and has a recording easier. Of course, in exchange for the nation of this flag receives the money.
2. The largest cruise ship in the world
Have you ever wondered what was the largest cruise ship in the world? Here it is, in two different poses: it is the M / n Allure of the Seas, together with her sister ship M / n Oasis of the Seas (which is, however, a few inches shorter). And 'capable of carrying over 6,000 passengers, and is almost as big as four football fields put together! Doing a quick comparison, it is 90 meters long more than the Titanic, and 4 times heavier! Inside there are 22 restaurants, and a replica of Central Park in Manhattan! A third ship of the same size is being built by Royal Caribbean, and will be inaugurated in 2016.
1. Missing Persons
Did you know that since 2000 it took about 200 cases of people missing from cruise ships? Many of them seem to have decided to take his own life, and therefore would be thrown into the sea, as in the case of Kristen Schroder and her boyfriend Paul Rossington , that in the month of May, after arguing, have been taken by security cameras jump into the sea. Other cases are accidents, sometimes caused by the abuse of alcohol during the evening festivities!
5. World Pollution
Cruise ships are those that pollute the most, as many of you know. Their engines are in need of large amounts of fuel to move. Do you think that a cruise ship carrying 3,000 passengers needs 800,000 liters of fuel to move one week! The sewage is discharged into the sea, five kilometers from the coast minimum.
4. The morgue board
Every cruise ship, nowadays, has a morgue, because the passenger has an average age of 40-50 years and, according to some analyzes, the longer the cruise and the more you raise the average age of the passengers. Occur frequently died of natural causes, while traveling, so it was inevitable to include a morgue, which typically has the capacity to hold 1-3 bodies.
3. Flags of convenience
How many times during commercials cruise ships you see the flags of countries such as Panama, India, Egypt, and many others? These "flags of convenience", also called "flags of convenience" or convenience. You enter a country, hoisted by a ship obviously of another nation: the owner, thus avoiding the payment of taxes and has a recording easier. Of course, in exchange for the nation of this flag receives the money.
2. The largest cruise ship in the world
Have you ever wondered what was the largest cruise ship in the world? Here it is, in two different poses: it is the M / n Allure of the Seas, together with her sister ship M / n Oasis of the Seas (which is, however, a few inches shorter). And 'capable of carrying over 6,000 passengers, and is almost as big as four football fields put together! Doing a quick comparison, it is 90 meters long more than the Titanic, and 4 times heavier! Inside there are 22 restaurants, and a replica of Central Park in Manhattan! A third ship of the same size is being built by Royal Caribbean, and will be inaugurated in 2016.
1. Missing Persons
Did you know that since 2000 it took about 200 cases of people missing from cruise ships? Many of them seem to have decided to take his own life, and therefore would be thrown into the sea, as in the case of Kristen Schroder and her boyfriend Paul Rossington , that in the month of May, after arguing, have been taken by security cameras jump into the sea. Other cases are accidents, sometimes caused by the abuse of alcohol during the evening festivities!