Image: How the World's Largest Cruise Ship Floats      (LiveScience.com)
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How the World's Largest Cruise Ship Floats (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The world's largest cruise ship is making its first transatlantic crossing from Finland to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where it will make its U.S. debut. Though colossal, the ship relies on the same physical principles as its smaller brethren to stay afloat. » Full Story on Yahoo! News

To float requires the boat to be lighter than the fluid it is in, thus meaning it is bouyant. An iron ship is not bouyant therefore it does not float at all. The water it is displaces creates a stronger force pushing up on the ship than the weight of the ship creates in the downward direction thus keeping the vessel above the water. Boats also lean into the direction of a turn and a ship leans the opposite way it is turning.

posted Nov 4, 2009 |
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This boat is too big! Traveling on this ship would be like going to Time Square for new years eve.

posted Nov 4, 2009 |
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What a poorly written article of random sentence fragments!

posted Nov 4, 2009 |
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Did not like the article at all and the ship is so big. What a stupid idea. They did not learn anything from the Titanic.

posted Nov 4, 2009 |
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