Because pace was no longer a central problem, the streamlined profile of the ocean liner yielded to passenger calls for for more room and higher range of actions. Wide, square vessels constructed to make use of economies of scale replaced tapered hulls and sleek profiles. For instance, the most important ship to sail the seas initially of the 2000s is more than twenty tales high, longer than three soccer fields; and at twice the tonnage of the ocean liner Titanic, it is able to carrying nearly four,000 passengers and 1,200 crew. (GRT—gross registered tonnage—refers to the quantity of public area…

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