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Michael

Well, I guess I finally took the time to post something like this. I am fascinated with many things such as airplanes, cars, and ships. One thing that led me to post this thread was the discovery of the largest ship in the world. I always knew that the largest ship would be an Oil Tanker. However, I never thought it would be that big. Being a fan of Cruise Ship's I understand how big ships can get. Nevertheless, this thing is big.

The biggest ships in the world is apparently the Knock Nevis

I think it is no longer in service, but the ship itself is huge. It displaces 564,763 tons. That is way more than the upcoming mega ship that Royal Caribbean is going to build that will come in at around 220,000.

Take a look at some of these pictures. If you can find more of it I would be appreciative if they were to be posted.









To me thinking about something this big is just incredible and scary. I would not want to be close to this ship if I was in the water.

Yannis

Great post Michael.

More details about the ship from wikipedia. She is 458 metres
long!!!

Knock Nevis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mirage77

Holy mother. Thanks for the post Michael.

dOmInIX

Yea, I've seen that. It is unbelievable.
Though, it must be a big challenge to engineers to build such a big ship, there are so many things to pay attention to and not to screw up.

Mirage77

Thanks for the history. Boy, and I thought the Queen Mary was big.

cawimmer430

Imagine the high quality steel and welding techniques needed to keep this ship together on the rough seas and in general.

Giannis

Wow, this is really big! I wonder how much time you want to get from the one end to the other!

888

now some russian taycoon will buy and make private yacht for 16 people with 450 stuff members, well he will have space to garage all his cars and airplanes and smaller boats too

audi_rudy

Holy crap that thing is huge. These huge tankers may appear to be moving slow but they haul. I would know i was once sailing a small boat and i almost got run over because i couldnt get out of its way fast enough in heavy winds
Wonder how fast this thing can go, it sure is a technological feat.

Michael

It is very hard to have one of these big boys come to a complete stop.

The one thing that fascinates me is that this ship is so big, how can the flexing that is caused by the ocean be maintained. The ship itself flexes.