THE world’s biggest ever ship able to carry 100,000 people on board is due to be the most impressive mega cruise ever to set sail.
On deck the behemoth of a boat was designed to give passengers and permanent residents a never-ending life of luxury – miles more impressive than any city back on land.
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Designed to be much more than a cruise liner, the Freedom Ship is a gigantic floating place where people live, work, retire or go on holiday to.
The enormous vessel would be on a nonstop voyage around the globe – touching all seven seas in three years.
Going from Britain – it would head down past France into the Mediterranean, circle round Africa and into the Indian Ocean.
It would then circle round Australia, up towards China, before then heading across the Pacific and down the coast of the Americas.
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The longest ship in the world currently is the mammoth Seawise Giant but the Freedom Ship would be nearly three times bigger.
Standing at 350ft tall and 4,500ft in length the ship would look like it’s going on forever as it looms over the horizon.
The superstructure would have 25 floors and make it an unmissable experience for anyone with steady sea legs.
The designers have placed a huge importance on the project looking just as beautiful as it is big with more than 200 acres of relaxation and fun on board.
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Vast parks full of ponds, greenery and waterfalls partnered with huge aquariums full of fancy fish that traverses over multiple decks.
They’ll even be a full size shopping mall full of big brands and new independent shops as the makers are hoping people will set up their own businesses as 100,000 new faces walk through the city on a ship each day.
On board there would also be schools, hospitals, gyms, restaurants – anything you would expect to find a typical city back on land including a full prison.
Developers hope the ship would have 40,000 full time residents, 30,000 daily visitors, 10,000 hotel guests and 20,000 time crew.
Clearly a project as ambitious and bold as this is going to cost a pretty expensive fee.
The latest estimation has the whole cruise costing anywhere up to £9billion to finish.
This made it one of the biggest reasons as to why the cruise remains just a dream to this day as investors aren’t willing to pay up the money needed to fund such a innovative project.
For anyone looking to live your dream life on on board the ship it’ll set you back a whopping £9million for a luxurious water-view apartments.
Even the cheapest suits start at £150,000 and it’ll cost thousands more to keep entertained on the ship 24 hours a day.
Although as the ship would constantly be travelling out at sea you wouldn’t have to pay any taxes.
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Freedom Ship is designed to stay on the move and treat guests to a non stop time of activities.
It would only stop to take on supplies when an aircraft could’t do a simple stop and drop of the items.
The ship’s entire top deck is a massive flat runway for planes to land on carrying tourists and permanent residents that come and go.
Passengers would travel up and down the incredible mile-long vessel on an onboard tramway system.
And there would be a fleet of ferries cruising back and forth from the ship to take people back to land.
The ship’s decks are layered with glass and open air promenades providing the incredible views over the ocean.
Freedom Ship would one of the largest man-made structures ever built and would dwarf all other ships at sea.
She is also five times larger than the world’s biggest warship USS Gerald R. Ford, and six times larger than the Royal Navy‘s HMS Queen Elizabeth.
And she is almost seven times bigger than the infamous ocean liner Titanic.
But while lots of these incredible concepts often take few stops off the drawing board – there have been multiple attempts to build Freedom Ship even if it isn’t sailing today.
Most of these attempts ended in little progress being made as a ship that big and with such exciting ideas on board doesn’t sit well with the unforgiving sea waters.
Keeping the 100,000 passengers safe would’ve been hard enough with the endless dangerous wildlife you’d come across but the dodgy weather and horror conditions on certain days and in certain areas was a recipe for disaster.
The ludicrous idea was first proposed in the 1990s – and has since been moved between different firms and investors.
The original design was in the hands of American based Freedom Cruise Line International.
Dreamed up by Florida engineer Norman Nixon – who died in 2012 – the cruise ship was rumoured to be starting back up work in Indonesia and Singapore but nothing else has been heard since 2020.
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This post first appeared on Thesun.co.uk
