CNN
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Who could forget the images that went viral last year of a cruise ship’s stern looking like a top-heavy birthday cake? So colorful and cartoon-like were the decks layered with twisting waterslides, turquoise pools and neon accoutrements galore, many commenters wondered how it could float.
If you thought the simultaneous buzz and uproar that accompanied the January 2024 launch of the world’s biggest cruise ship — Royal Caribbean’s 1,196-foot-long Icon of the Seas — was the last you’d hear about super-sized cruise ships for a while, think again.
The bigger-is-better adage is one that the world’s biggest cruise lines — Royal Caribbean, MSC, Carnival…
