How Deep Does A Cruise Ship Sit In The Water

Ever since the Costa Concordia disaster questions have been raised whether modern day cruise ships are being designed more dangerously by increasing their size to pile more and more passengers aboard.

How deep does a cruise ship sit in the water. For example a cruise ship on which I will be sailing soon has its dimensions listed on the cruise lines website. Keep in mind though that it may have to be slightly deeper than that. The cruise ships are not submarines.

In general though the water under a cruise ship has to be 25 to 50 feet deep. The ship will be in deep water 7000 feet until approaching the outer dolphin when the drop-off is crossed and the depth of water decreases immediately to 33 feet MLW the controlling depth alongside the length of the pier. It depends on the size of the ship referred to as tonnage.

The typical cruise ship pool is smaller. Keep in mind that a cruise ship is usually pretty far from the coast as it navigates from one locale to the next. As the ship burns fuel it gets lighter.

Then the L would cancel out leaving. Any water you bring on must be in carry-on luggage not checked. By comparing the lines at both bow and stern relative to the waterline the trim of the ship can be determined.

You need look no further than Royal Caribbeans Genesis class Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas which each. It was a fairly large but there are definitely larger cruise ships out there. Cruise ships do not tip over because they have a low center of gravity and use ballasts.

The ship could sail just fine with only 100 people on board. This does not mean that the cruise ship is fine in 30 feet of water. If the full height is 80 feet then its about 40 under water by its crossection.