{"id":270889,"date":"2017-03-31T17:35:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T21:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=270889"},"modified":"2020-08-26T17:45:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:45:35","slug":"the-huge-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/the-huge-titanic\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201chuge\u201d Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Thanks to progress in science and technology the \u201chuge\u201d Titanic is dwarfed\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A comparison of the Titanic and a modern-day cruise ship.<\/p>\n<p>The word\u00a0Titanic\u00a0evokes thoughts of something epic and gigantic in proportion. When we hear this word, the first thing that comes to our mind\u00a0is the infamous and ill-fated ship, the RMS Titanic. But how big was the Titanic compared to a cruise ship built today?<\/p>\n<p>How big was the Titanic compared to a cruise ship built today?\u00a0Compared to a modern-day cruise ship, the Titanic was quite small.\u00a0Modern-day cruise ships, such as the Oasis-class line of cruise ships, are about a third longer and about twice the width of the Titanic.<\/p>\n<p>The RMS Titanic was 882 feet (269 meters) long and 92 feet (28 meters wide). Modern-day\u00a0cruises, such as the Oasis-class cruise ships, measure more than 1,180 feet (360 meters) and more than 200 feet (61 meters) wide.<\/p>\n<p>Two other popular, modern-day cruise ships are measured as follows: The Allure of the Seas measures 1,187 feet (362 meters) long and 215 feet (66 meters) wide. The Symphony of the Seas spans 1,184 feet (361 meters) long and 215 feet (66 meters) wide.<\/p>\n<p>The below image shows the difference between the Titanic and two modern-day cruise ships: the Allure of the Seas and the Costa Concordia.<\/p>\n<p>The Titanic could hold up to 3,327 passengers. As a comparison, the modern-day Symphony of the Seas cruise ship can hold up to 6,780 passengers \u2013 nearly twice as much as the Titanic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"z1JdU6r2b8\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/boatinggeeks.com\/how-big-was-the-titanic-compared-to-a-cruise-ship\/\">How Big Was the Titanic Compared to a Modern Cruise Ship?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;How Big Was the Titanic Compared to a Modern Cruise Ship?&#8221; &#8212; Boating Geeks\" src=\"https:\/\/boatinggeeks.com\/how-big-was-the-titanic-compared-to-a-cruise-ship\/embed\/#?secret=z1JdU6r2b8\" data-secret=\"z1JdU6r2b8\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Thanks to progress in science and technology the \u201chuge\u201d Titanic is dwarfed\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":270892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}