Royal Caribbean International’s Star of the Seas reached a major construction milestone, recently, as it floated for the first time.
The teams behind the construction celebrated the moment as the new ship then moved to the outfitting pier – and into the final stages of construction – at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Turku, Finland.
To kick off the milestone, a ceremony – a maritime tradition, complete with a shot from a cannon – took place in the Meyer Turku shipyard in Turku, Finland, to celebrate 19 months (and counting) of hard work put in by the thousands behind Star’s construction.
Then, the proverbial floodgates opened to fill the dry dock with 92 million gallons of water – an overnight process that took nearly nine hours. Star was then floated out of the dock andinto the outfitting pier, where it will continue to take shape inside and out.
From the dry dock to the water, how the moment unfolded can be seen here.
