I was also one of the lucky people who got to sample NCL Epic’s launch party last week. The weather was fantastic and on Wednesday, I was able to chill out by the pool.
The main pool area, as shown in the photo above, consists of two separate swimming pools and lots of cooling blue tiles around it. It looked amazing and my colleague Sian and I enjoyed dipping our toes in the water. However there was a huge amount of wasted space and we questioned why they hadn’t made the whole area into one giant pool. Individually you could probably fit around 20 people in each pool to cool off, and the ship holds over 4000 passengers.
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Most modern cruise ships are in excess of 90,000tons and are “high” in the water because of the ever growing number of decks to accomodate passengers.Some if not all modern cruise ships have the ability to take on water ballast, to lower the centre of gravity and keep them stable, especially on the high seas, eg trans-atlantic. Clearly given the above, if the ships had huge swimming pools on top located decks, they would tend to undermine the stability of the vessel, especially during inclement weather. And as 1 cubic metre of water alone weighs 1 ton, you don’t really need to be Einstein to work it out.