| With the world turning to the seas for their holidays, it | | | | than 20000 daily guests will also be able to fit on the |
| comes as no surprise that shipbuilders seem to have | | | | ship so that they can have fun and enjoy the various |
| entered a race to build the worlds largest ship ever. | | | | attractions on the ship. |
| Leading this race is the mammoth ship called Freedom | | | | The life on the worlds largest ship will be more than |
| that is soon going to be built. The bare enormity of this | | | | ordinary. When the colossal project completes |
| ship is mind boggling in itself. The dimensions, if | | | | someday, more than 15000 homes will be housed on it |
| described, could cover at least three huge city blocks. | | | | with their permanent resident. There will be a whopping |
| If one was to keep walking in a straight line on the ship, | | | | 4000 businesses also located aboard the ship which |
| one could easily cover a little over a mile. This is a | | | | function like the usual offshore businesses. The ships |
| really long length for a ship, but this is reality. Sideways, | | | | sails around the world every two years and in the |
| the breadth of the ship is also quite massive. After the | | | | process visit every major port in the world. The |
| whole one mile walk, if one turns right and then keeps | | | | residents will this way get an opportunity to see the |
| moving in a straight line, till the end of the ship, one will | | | | world and they can move in their private yachts or |
| have covered the size of almost two full sized football | | | | helicopters if they want to see the land. All the entire |
| fields. Taking the dimensions in consideration, Freedom | | | | strength of the ships crew, the 15000 people will |
| barely seems to be the world's largest ship; in fact, it | | | | prepare the ship for the daily such of guests and |
| seems to actually be the first city on sea that is | | | | visitors who will come on vacations to enjoy sea life. |
| capable of floating around. The number of people that | | | | They will get to shop from various duty free shops |
| can fit is more than the population of a few remote | | | | that are there and enjoy many of the planned |
| villages in America. The number of humans that can | | | | attractions. |
| be housed permanently on the ship is almost close to | | | | What worries naval experts and engineers at the |
| a whopping 50000 people. These are not temporary | | | | moment is the sheer size of the ship and that whether |
| visitors on the ship but actual residents who will live | | | | it will manage to move nicely. While the current worlds |
| permanently aboard. Apart from these, there will be | | | | Largest Ship is the Destiny which displaces almost |
| enough space for more than 16000 ship employees | | | | 500,000 tons of water, this one will be able to displace |
| and crew members. Some of them will be permanent | | | | close to 2.7 million tons of water. |
| while the others will keep rotating. And finally, more | | | | |