10 February 2006
First Extreme-Ultra-Mega cruise ship launched
Ship will carry more than 17,000 passengers
 ATHENS,
Greece -- Mega Crown International Cruise Lines, LLP surprised the
cruise industry today with the launch of the first of a new fleet of
Extreme-Ultra-Mega cruise ships.
In a prepared statement, Mega Crown International noted that the new
ship, called Brobdingnagian, was built in secret over the
past six years at the Yatzmar Shipyards hidden deep within Kyrgyzstan.
Company spokesperson, Svelette Minkenopolis said, "The Brobdingnagian
represents the state-of-the-art in large vessel design and construction.
Moreover, besides those amenities and diversions that cruise passengers
have come to expect—things like theatres, swimming pools, night clubs
and casinos—the Brobdingnagian includes an ice skating rink, an
arena football stadium and a par-72, 18 hole golf course."
The launch of this first Extreme-Ultra-Mega class cruise ship, shown
here on her departure from the shipyards, comes on the heels of the
announcement by Royal Caribbean Cruises earlier this month of an order
for a £615 million, 5,400-passenger cruise ship—a ship that Royal
Caribbean said would be twice the size of most existing cruise ships.
But now, at 450,000-gross-tons and 2,030 feet long, the Brobdingnagian, is
more than twice the weight and nearly twice the length of the planned
Royal Caribbean ship. Yet the cost of its design and construction,
according to Mega Crown International, was only US$982 million.
The Brobdingnagian will carry a crew of 3,480 and has a capacity
for 17,650 passengers. Sea trials of the Brobdingnagian will
begin within a month, and the company expects to have her in service for
the summer Alaskan cruise season.
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