måndag 2 november 2009

Limbo Trick in the Great Belt Bridge




Passage was over 18 minutes after midnight and the officer in charge of the Authority for traffic on the Great Belt exhaled.
The ship above the water surface is 72 meters while the sails headroom under the bridge is 65 meters. To achieve this, the ship's stack, which operates a telescope so that the height can be reduced to 64.75 meters above sea level.
The shipyard in Turku in Finland have built the 361-meter and 225 000 tonnes of large vessel. From there it sailed on Friday the rate on its home base in Lauderdale, Florida.
The ship's captain William S Wright was a precaution chosen a date for the passage when water levels were lowest during the bridge. He took one more trick and put the drag on all the machines 140 000 horsepower as the ship passed under the bridge in excess of 20 knots. This meant that the hull drove down a couple of inches further into the water.
The spectacular bropassagen became expensive for the owner, the American cruise shipping company Royal Caribbean International. Only telescopic feature of the chimney has cost about fifteen million extra, which may be compared with the eleven billion that the ship has been on the loose.
For the money, the shipping company had a floating paradise with 16 passenger decks for up to 6 300 cruise passengers and 2 165 crew.

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