On board the world's largest cruise ship, the Icon of the Seas
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- The world's largest cruise ship, the Icon of the Seas, is just 9 days away from carrying nearly 10,000 people around the Caribbean. For comparison, the Titanic was 883 feet long before it sank in 1912, while the Icon of the Seas measures close to 1,200 feet. CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave got an exclusive look at the massive ship as it set sail on a test cruise.
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"Newly Wed & Nearly Dead" got me laughing like the joker.
Thank God I'm not the only one who was like: What?!
me and my wife will be on icon for our honeymoon, got married back in oct of last year but decided we wanted to be on one of the first sailings for icon! we are counting down and cant wait
My curiosity has got the best of me, please do tell how your cruise went, was it very thrilling?
@@thecatholicnextdoor3058 icon was beautiful, definitely centered around families and kids, we had a blast though
‘It’s bigger then the titanic, probably a good thing’ 😂
Is this the next ship of dreams?
"Titanic sinked in 1912"
LOVE BOAT COMES TO LIFE 💜
Imagine building this and allowing displaced Gaza civilians to take refuge. That would be a true ICON. Real selfless service to humanity… but yeah nice boat 👍🏾
Titanic cruise ship? It was a transatlantic OCEAN LINER. What happened to journalism?!
My turn to be on icon of the sea
it's basically the axiom
Couldn’t think of anything worse..
Pales in comparison means it's worse or lesser than something 🤪
I'm booked for Oct
No Thanks... LOL
The titanic was not a cruise ship if your gonna open your mouth about it say it correctly
Titanic
Looks like Blackpool sea front on a barge....beyond decadent...
1200ft not 1200 meter😂 fekene ki bhi hadd hoti h
Pointless
In cruise how to maintain their toilets for fertility
Nightmarish
Titanic wasn’t a cruise ship btw
That's true she was an ocean liner. And the Icon doesn't "pale in comparison" to Titanic; they used that phrase completely wrong. It's the opposite. Titanic pales in comparison to Icon. Interesting segment overall.
You have cruise ships that function as ocean liners now though. Parents are currently on a large carnival cruise ship thats going from LA to Japan.
Cruise travel is one of the worst things you can do in terms of climate. Studies have shown that cruise travel emits more CO2 per passenger than if you travel by plane and stay in a hotel. Cruise travelers also fly to the ships' port of departure, and this costs in the climate account.
Icon of the Seas sails on so-called LNG fuel, which stands for liquefied natural gas. It emits around 25 percent less CO2 than 'normal' fuel. On the other hand, it emits methane gas, which is even worse than CO2, which is otherwise the more well-known climate culprit.
Methane can be up to 84 times better at absorbing heat and therefore has a massive impact on the atmosphere.
I grew up in a town of about 10,000 people. Though that is a HUGE ship, that's a lot of people even in a space that size.
Going on my first cruise with the family in February. I swore I’d never go on one for the past 20 years but here we are. I must admit, I’m kind of excited.
I'll pray for you. But spending that kind of money is ridiculous unless you're going around the world and getting off at every port for 2 days to explore the cities.
Enjoy! I’ll be celebrating my birthday and graduation on the icon in July 🎉
@@Chicago48that’s the whole point of cruising
You're literally going to have the best time of your life. Just let go and lose yourself, and expect to gain like 20 pounds from all the free food, but that comes with the territory. You could make a rule to always use the stairs instead of the elevator to burn it off. But sometimes there's an elusive piano man in the elevator that's fun to catch.
@@kernelxsanders That’s what I like to hear. lol.
Probably not a good idea to compare a Vessel to the Titanic! 😅
I sailed on liners (RMS Queen Mary and Elizabeth, SS France) and worked on cruise ships in the 1980s. The idea of approx. 8000 passengers descending on a destination all at once is dreadful! These new cruise ships are too big not to mention graceless. And the Titanic was a liner!
Being surrounded with 10 Thousand people and you call it vacation 🤣
Introvert alert
0:11 Titanic was an ocean liner, not cruise ship
Yeah, I have learned that the news doesn't care. Planes, trains, ships, etc.
And she said “it pales in comparison to the Titanic”. Isn’t that the opposite?
Spot on, my friend. I thought the very same.
Very poorly written. This piece doesn’t even qualify as ‘journalism’.
She also got the 'pales in comparison' order wrong...
Nobody cares
Report said " $3,500 for 7 days" WRONG!! its more like $8500 for 2 guest... ( without the beverage package) ... We are crusing March 2024 on Icon, fingers crossed**
You’re right. I booked for April 2024 and somehow landed a balcony for 2 adults and a child for $3701 plus I got a $100 room credit. I checked the same room and it’s over $9,000 now!!!
The Icon OTS is now the new mother of all the ugliest ships ever built. This ship is just a mess and a quagmire of opposing lines, bulges and appendages. If RCL think their main market are 5 year old's then they may just have got away with it, but I can assure them that a whole cashed up gaggle of near retirees or retirees would not go near this ship under any circumstances. Another example of a major company completely missing it's target market. Should have been called the Eyesore of the Seas.
Just got back a week ago from the cruise. My wife,me ,my 2 brothers families plus other friends families. We had a blast! I would do all over again and the near future. The workers on board did a fabulous job and they work hard.
Things have certainly changed. Cruising use to mean only going indoors to eat or sleep and spending most of your time looking out at the ocean, sunbathing or playing outdoor games like shuffle board or basketball. Now most of the rooms look inwards at the ship’s attractions and activities and you hardly can see the ocean from the ship‘s rooms except from the windows on the observation deck. It’s like mobile phones when they first came out, everyone would talk constantly to each other no matter how close they were to each other. Now they sit next to each other and just texting and not talking.
Its a floating prison IMO. 7600 people is tooo much. It's a little city.
Lol this cruise ship class doesn’t represent the entire cruise ship industry. All you gotta do is not go on it and browse the next set class of ships
I don't think she knows when to use the phrase "pales in comparison" correctly...lol.
As a former passenger on the Titanic, I can affirm this ship is definitely larger!
Me too….travelled back in 97 for a 3 hour epic journey!
She said pales in comparison to the titanic. Doesn’t that mean this new ship isn’t as good as the titanic? lol
@@user-sb7lv2tk9m Yeah, May be the editor was drinking when he wrote the story…and the anchor of course reads what’s is in there…😀
How old are you? 🤔
Your still alive?
Too much. The point of vacations like this is to get away from America, not bringing it with you
LMAO. 7600 people, toooo much.
@@Chicago48 10,000 including staff and on a ship, too many people. Lineups for everything.
Not everyone wants to "get away from America." Some people just want to have a good time and relax. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean others won't.
Well technically flying also qualifies under that category
@@katieingle5836I suggest buying some high heels. That way no more jokes go over your head.
Damn it's booked until 2026? 😬
The rich, the have some time other ships for much cheaper
My family will let the early excitement burn off and then book in a year or two. LOL
Oh well. Sure you can do other things
Oh well. Sure you can do other things
The largest ship I was on in my maritime
career was the Supertanker Berlin.
1250 ft.
Me a 9 hp aluminum boat on the St Lawrence River.
If I had a 40k budget for a vacation I wouldn’t spend it on a Royal Caribbean cruise
Titanic was NOT a cruise ship.
Safety? In case of unprecedented or unpredictable weather? Looks awesome 💯
This story has got to be sponsored by Royal Caribbean somehow, reads like RC's marketing team wrote it... amazing feat of engineering though
“It pales in comparison to the Titianic cruise ship…” So this new ship is inferior to the Titanic?
Thank God It wasn’t just me
No thanks, Covid is still hot and heavy. I could not image being sick my whole vacation or right after.
Made in Finland
I think you’d comment that you repeatedly mentioned (newly wed and nearly dead are tasteless. How does that make us seniors feel?
For the crew like me its better to work on small ship it could be chaos and so much crowded a lot of cruisers choose small ships rather A big one
What i can see, it's a gigantic "American Mall", plastic and fake decor and lack of personality, for the price you pay. Yes, it's big, what more?
This will create an awesome spectacle when it capsizes
You must be a pessimist!! Always seeing the down side!! It will never happen because God protects us all
Very soon it will become the “Bankruptcy of the Sea” who’s gonna pay that much for a cruise?
0:09 "it [the Icon of the Seas] pails in comparison to the iconic Titanic cruise ship".
If the Icon of the Seas measures close to 1200 ft long, and the Titanic 883 ft, as the reporter says, isn't it the Titanic that "pails in comparison" to the Icon of the Seas, and not the other way around as the reporter said?
Pales*, and yes, they must have been the other way around.
The Titantic pales in comparison to the Icon of the Seas... not the other way around lol.
Glad someone else caught that lol
Great job news reader. “It pales in comparison to the iconic Titanic cruise ship”
No, Titanic pales in comparison to Icon also Titanic was not a cruise ship, it was an Ocean Liner. 🤦🏻♂️
They called titanic a cruise ship… what the heck how did she mess up that. Can’t stand it
She also said it "pales in comparison to the Titanic". That would mean that the Titanic is much better. I think she meant it the other way around. Someone needs to proof-read their scripts.
@@joshuabray37 I’m a nerd with titanic and every right about ocean liners… so it does hurt me a bit but just hurts me more that they let it out on television. Makes my views on America not change at all haha
Great now the ports are going to be even more packed. Hopefully it doesn’t affect the excursions for all the other cruise lines and ships with that many people. How will there be room or time on the islands
Depending on how big the cruise ships and capacity are, I would imagine that the bigger the ships, the less ships there are at the port, and I think it all has to do with scheduling, which I can only think of
Titanic was NOT a "cruise" ship. It was an Ocean Liner.
The media drives me nuts; Why compare this ship to the ill-fated Titanic? They have ZERO in common! Also, since when did Royal Caribbean become more like Carnival - ugh those colours!
Maybe referencing the Titanic before the maiden voyage of Icon of the Seas is not such a great thing?
NO WAY i would want to be on that floating claustrophobic box on the sea. No escape!
plenty of lifeboats and life vests...
High center of gravity, risk of wind at high places, hard access to lifeboat, and a giant petri dish when an outbreak happens. Also that morbidly obese ship will be an annoyance to the locals and maybe will become an environtmental disaster one day, just like Concordia.
No thanks.
"next time around use alrernate dock priemer" ©
Like a cross between a mall and a theme park. You may technically be traveling to another country, but on one of these monstrosities, are you really leaving America? You could'nt pay me to get on board.
My friend called it the world's largest petri dish. I tend to agree.
U ever been
Don’t worry. U can’t afford it anyway 😂
@@jaymann3909 Oh yeah! One of the best trips of our lives but the times, they are a-changin'. to quote Dylan. (And by that I mean the GERMS, they are a-changin'. )
Imagine 7600 passengers with the Hershey Squirts.
@@kenmcalpine2215 😫 That's an image I won't be able to get rid of. 🤮
Made in Finland. Like most of them.
Keep it out of the Red Sea and the Middle East.
If there is a hell, it must be something like this: being trapped in this immense shitness of floating Las Vegas and theme park, filled with thousands of children screaming in your ear.
These are floating malls. Basically people soup. I use passenger ships here and there. Not worth it. You're better off going on a container ship lol
If you want to enjoy sea travel domesticly, try passenger ferries. Theyre always empty and the experience is awesome. Because their main target is cargo trucks and vehicles. At least in japan thats the case.
Built in Turku, Finland 🇫🇮🇫🇮
Absolutely beautiful 🚢⚓🚢⚓
Titanic was a steam liner, not a cruise ship.
Send it to Gaza
Be there in June baby! And having been on one of their other large ones, I will say, it doesn't feel like there are 6-7k people. With all the difference spaces, people are spread out.
Beautiful ship 🚢 my next vacation is on I con of the Seas ❤
imagine tryring to evacuate 10,000 people if their was ever an emergancy
It depends how quick it sinks. If the ship goes down in two hours, I can't see how logistically they can get 10,000 on the lifeboats, all lowered, and safely far enough away.
what about costca condoria time frame?@@roachtoasties
@@randomrazr I think that took a while to evacuate. But with that boat, it didn't fully sink. Only half submerged as it sat on some rocks for what might have been years. I'm thinking striking icebergs in the open ocean in stormy weather, then going down in a couple hours. Something bigger than the Titanic. I don't think they'll be enough time. As the boat lists, lowing and using the lifeboats becomes more and more difficult.
Titanic was never a cruise ship at all, don't cover stories you know nothing about 😂😂
NO!
Mark this post. You will see lots of complaints about debarkation at ports. Build as big as you want, ports and islands will have issues accommodating the sheer volume of just this cruise ship not to mention all the other ships same day.
*1 0 0 % u s e l e s s*
The only time I took a cruise was to Cartagena and the ABC islands, Limon and Panama. It was Pullmanturs Monarch. It was maybe a ship for some 2000 people. It felt small. I d only take a small cruise again, something like NCL or Carnival. But I did fall in love forever.
Ummm who wrote that intro copy. “It pales in comparison to titanic cruise ship?” Could that sentence be any more incorrect
💥💥Now I never been on a cruise ship, i never wanted to go cruise ship but I do remember hearing a lot of people say the idea of a cruise is to get away from people etc. It seems like these cruise ships now are nothing more than a city that can float.
If I was to go on a cruise ship I would rather go on Alaskan cruise an adult only cruise by the way. I wouldn't want to be on a cruise ship with a bunch of children running around everywhere. You got to deal with that when you back home in the city kids everywhere.
Also to the dumb news lady the Titanic wasn't a cruise ship it was ocean liner🤦🏿♂️
Right..don’t mind kids at all…but this is a theme park, lol
How do you airlft 10000 people
Of that ship to safety in reasonable time ?
Could all SAR Helis in USA, China and Russia combined do it w.i. 24 houers ?
Good thing, was parked (wrong word) in my country Puerto Rico, to the south of the island. Was magestic and magnificent that beast of ship.
I bet the slots, buffets, entertainment, the help that always has their hand out or are trying to get into your pocket, all suck.
At 100k for the townhouse they better not!!
Floating petri dish.
I dont have icon money. I got that carnival money
I have the regular Royal Caribbean ship money
Can't imagine being trapped on a ship with 10,000 other "passengers" Hell of the Seas.........Not if you paid me.
Bigger is better ?
Just thinking how many meals could be provided to poor kids for 2 Billions $ ....
10,000 poo’s. All in a cramped ship. Just think about that for a second..
You got that Titanic reference backwards
To me this is icon of ugly.imagine being stuck in the middle of sea with 10000 people.why would anyone want to pay for this horror?
You need to learn HOW TO USE THE PHRASE "PALES IN COMPARISON" CORRECTLY.
No thanks!I can’t enjoy with 10,000 people.
Cbs employees drinking on the job? Makes sense with the logic they come up with 😂
It was ice tea, and not the Long Island kind.
How very tacky… like a floating shopping mall.
After 7 times cruising , still want to go with this 😅
We've gone on 4 cruises in 2 years, next month is our 5th and we're just in our early 40s. We can't get enough 😅 We'd like to sail with Icon when it comes here to Europe.
The most crass revolting looking cruise ship I've ever seen. No wonder it's leaving from Florida.
full of underpaid staff from other countries working 16hr shifts 7 days a week!
The last thing I’m concerned about is Covid
Did COVID not teach us humans anything? 10,000 people floating in a sea of disease 🦠
With 10,000 people. Anyone bother to count the number of lifeboats and capacity?
Iceberg: Good. Twice the pride double the fall.