I recently read an article that the Royal Caribbean have just given the go ahead for the largest ever cruise liner to set sail, it’s nearly 1200ft long and has something ridiculous like 5 water slides and a zoo on it (maybe that’s an exaggeration, but you get the point).
It got me thinking – is there a ceiling to how large a boat can be? Does buoyancy have a limit? If you ignored the impracticality of mooring and getting into smaller bodies of water, is the capacity of Ship building limitless?
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Ships that size have been traversing the seas for years. [Ultra Large Crude Carriers](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-class_supertanker) carry around 400,000 tons of oil and are around 1200 ft long. They are so large that they are effectively at sea their entire lives and can only moor to pipeline piers further out.
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