Traveling the high seas has just gotten way better! The Oasis of the Seas ready to set sail in 2010 will undoubtedly be the largest cruise liner to date with a capacity to hold over 6,300 passengers over 2,000 more than today’s average passenger ship. The 18 story high luxury liner is a design engineering first with an outdoor park, the largest at sea swimming pool and the most rooms with balconies and decks.  To build such a ship of this caliber over 2,800 people were employed to construct the ship’s design.  The ship has three 20 foot tall propellers  mounted on swiveling pods along with electric motors that deliver the equivalent of 30,000 horsepower.

“Ten years ago, we felt that 140,000 tons was as big as we could go,” says Oasis designer Harri Kulovaara. “Now that we’ve got the experience, we’ve taken a quantum leap.”