Adventure of the Seas is the third of five s measured at, and. The vessel is long with a beam of at the waterline and at the extreme. The vessel has a draft of and a depth of. The vessel is powered by a diesel-electric system composed of six Wärtsilä 12V46 engines for a total of driving three ABB Azipods and four bow thrusters. This gives the cruise ship a maximum speed of. The ship has 15 decks of which 14 are passenger decks with capacity for a maximum of 3,807 guests. The Voyager-class ships have a four-deck-high horizontal promenade, called the Royal Promenade. The length of the promenade is roughly, and situated at each end is an 11-deck high atrium, called the Centrum. The passengers are spread out over 1,557 staterooms of which 765 are balcony, 174 are along the outside with 618 along the inside. 565 come with a th berth and 26 are accessible for persons with disabilities. 138 are located along the promenade. Adventure of the Seas comes equipped with an outdoor movie screen, an Aqua Park, cyclone and typhoon water slides, as well as a FlowRider. The ship has a crew of 1,185.
Construction and career
The vessel was ordered on 24 April 1997 for $500 million and constructed at Kværner Masa-YardsTurku New Shipyard in Finland. The ship's keel was laid down on 17 June 1998. Named Adventure of the Seas, the cruise ship was launched on 5 January 2001 and completed on 26 October 2001. The ship's godparents are Tara Stackpole and Kevin Hannafin of the New York Fire Department along with Margaret McDonnell and Richard Lucas of the New York Police Department. The vessel is operated by Royal Caribbean International and is registered at Nassau, Bahamas. Adventure of the Seas departed on its maiden voyage on 18 November 2001. Adventure of the Seas has cruised from United States ports to the Caribbean, Bahamas and Canada and from European ports to Baltic, Mediterranean, and Northern European destinations. In 2016, the cruise ship underwent a $61 million refurbishment, among the changes included adding additional staterooms. Adventure of the Seas was the fifth ship of the RCI fleet to undergo the refit.
Incidents
During the coronavirus pandemic, on 2020.05.22, Loop Jamaica reported that 5 crew members of Adventure of the Seas recently repatriated to Jamaica had tested positive for the virus. The ship had docked at Falmouth, Jamaica on 2020.05.19. Aboard were 1044 Jamaican crew members, all to be repatriated and tested for the virus. By 2020.05.24, 9 crew members in total had tested positive; by 2020.05.26, 19 in total had tested positive, and 624 negative.
