| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Oasis of the Seas |
| Owner: | Royal Caribbean International |
| Operator: | Royal Caribbean International |
| Port of registry: |  Nassau, The Bahamas |
| Route: | Caribbean |
| Ordered: | February 2006 |
| Builder: | STX Europe shipyards in Turku, Finland |
| Cost: | US$1.4 billion (2006) |
| Laid down: | 12 November 2007 |
| Launched: | 22 November 2008 float-out |
| Completed: | 28 October 2009 |
| Christened: | 30 November 2009 |
| Maiden voyage: | 5 December 2009 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2010 |
| General characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | Oasis class cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 225,282 GT |
| Length: | 360 m (1,181 ft) overall |
| Beam: | 47 m (154 ft) waterline 60.5 m (198 ft) extreme |
| Height: | 72 m (236 ft) above water line |
| Draught: | 9.3 m (31 ft) |
| Depth: | 22.55 m (74 ft) |
| Decks: | 16 passenger decks |
| Installed power: | 3 × Wärtsilä 12V46D engines (13,860 kW/18,590 hp each) 3 × Wärtsilä 16V46D engines (18,480 kW/24,780 hp each) |
| Propulsion: | 3 × 20 MW ABB Azipod, all azimuthing |
| Speed: | 22.6 knots (41.9 km/h; 26.0 mph) |
| Capacity: | 5,400 passengers double occupancy; 6,296 total |
| Crew: | 2,165[2]\\ |
Oasis measures 225,282 gross tons,. Its displacement - the actual weight of the vessel - is estimated at approximately 100,000 tons, about the same as that of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, and about twice as much as the Titanic, of 52,310 tons. 40% bigger than any other "megaliner" in the expanding cruise market.
How big is big? Five times the tonnage of the Titanic, the Oasis is longer than any aircraft carrier in the US fleet. It is half as big again as the O2 centre. Stand it on its end and it would look down on Canary Wharf's towers.
There is no accessible place on the ship from which you can view both its bow and stern, so once you are aboard you have to find your own ways to understand its scale. You can jog its perimeter, each lap almost half a mile. You can harness yourself into a zipwire and fly nine storeys above the main deck. Or you can attempt the world's most meandering offshore pub crawl: 37 bars and restaurants spread over 16 levels, including an English theme pub, in which smoking is allowed.
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