Royal Caribbean's newest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, is being called a floating cruise innovation laboratory, reports Cruise Industry News.
Some of what’s happening on the 250,000-plus-ton ship, the largest cruise ship ever built, has never happened before at sea — at least not at this scale. For example, the ship's design includes large windows from Deck 5 to Deck 8, offering panoramic ocean views. To achieve this, the ship's weight distribution had to be adjusted, with a massive steel sphere called the Pearl taking the place of traditional beams.
The Icon of the Seas also incorporates innovative technologies, such as a waste-to-energy plant that converts food, bio and solid waste into fuel for the desalination plant. The ship's engineers are studying the optimal combination of waste for this system using artificial intelligence.
Royal Caribbean aims to use the knowledge gained from this ship to improve future vessels.
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