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The Oasis of the Seas is a Royal Caribbean International ship part of the Oasis Class of ships in the Royal Caribbean fleet. The Oasis class surpassed the Freedom Class as the world's largest passenger ships. The Oasis of the Seas held a record for the most passengers on a cruise ship at over 6,000 in 2009. As of 2024 her sister ship, Icon of the Seas, holds that record.
Oasis of the Seas was ordered in February 2006 and under the name of "Project Genesis". Her keel was laid down on November 27 2007 at STX Europe in Turku, Finland. The company announced that full funding for Oasis of the Seas was secured on April 15 2009.
The ship was named after a contest in May 2008.
When the ship was having its first float-out the tug boats pulling the ship were not strong enoughto pull it. They lost control and the port side of the ship collided with the dock giving it minor cosmetic damage. This did not effect the delivery date of the ship.
The ship was completed and turned over to Royal Caribbean on October 28th 2009. 48 hours later she departed Finland for Fort Lauderdale, Florida. While exiting the Baltic Sea, the vessel passed underneath the Great Belt Fixed Link in Denmark on November 1st 2009. The bridge has a clearance of 65 m (213 ft) above the water; Oasis normally has an air draft of 72 m (236 ft). The passage under the bridge was possible due to retraction of the telescoping funnels, and an additional 30 cm (12 in) was gained by the squat effect whereby vessels traveling at speed in a shallow channel will be drawn deeper into the water. Approaching the bridge at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph), the ship passed under it with less than 2 feet (60 cm) of clearance.
Proceeding through the English Channel, Oasis stopped briefly in the Solent so that 300 shipyard workers who were onboard doing finishing work could disembark, then left on the way to her intended home port of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ship arrived there on November 15th 2009, where tropical plants were installed prior to some introductory trips and her maiden voyage on December 5th 2009.
While Royal Caribbean's chief of captains William S. Wright was in command of the ship's journey across the Atlantic and also for the first few sailings, navigation of the Oasis of the Seas is regularly handled by two Norwegian captains, Tor Isak Olsen and Thore Thorvolsen.
The ship was featured in an episode of the second season of Mighty Ships, a production of Discovery Channel Canada which aired during the summer of 2010.