Oasis of the Seas Maiden Bayonne Arrival on August 18th, 2021 (4K)

On the morning of August 18th, 2021 Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas made it's maiden call to it's new home of Cape Liberty New Jersey. Originally delivered to Royal Caribbean in 2009 the ship featured telescoping funnels that was used to allow it to pass under bridges that would otherwise be impassable. This was a requirement as her normal height of 236 feet would have left her unable to pass under the Great Belt Fixed Link that stood between the ship yard where she was built and the ocean. Through the use of the funnels, squat effect, and timing the tides the ship passed under the bridge safely. Upon reaching Florida though an unusually cold winter exposed a design flaw with the funnel. The exposed pipes that could telescope down lacked the normal insulation that would be present. With the colder weather soot would stick to the pipes and then flake off raining down on the sports deck, boardwalk, and aquatheater below. To fix this the funnels were permanently fixed in the extended position and insulated. She would never be able to sail under a bridge of the common height again.

That is until 2019 when during her second dry dock she received a pair of new collapsing funnels that flip backwards to lower the height. Unlike the Quantum class vessels that have a second generation of the telescopic design Oasis received a new method that until today hadn't been put through a real world test. The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge has a clearance of 228 feet, with the use of her new funnel and the squat effect she was able to clear the passage with 9 feet of clearance at close to high tide, the Oasis of the Seas easily passed the challenge with flying colors. A good thing since just like the funnels on Quantum and Anthem, she will have to use hers every week when she returns home.

While originally announced to be headed for Cape Liberty in November of 2018, the original arrival date of April 2020 was delayed due to the Coronavirus. Arriving August 18th of 2021 she is now set to begin her test cruise on August 22nd in hopes of finally starting her first sailings from the northeast on September 5th of 2021.

Content:
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:13 Morning in Cape Liberty
0:01:07 Oasis on the horizon
0:12:50 Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge passage
0:32:00 Arriving at Cape Liberty Cruise Port
0:45:05 Along side the pier
0:53:10 Tying the lines
0:58:48 Docked in Cape Liberty
1:01:06 Collapsable Funnel
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