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Royal Caribbean’s Next Icon Mega Ship Adds Huge Glass Structure

Key Aspects: Meyer Turku shipyard has installed the massive AquaDome on Royal Caribbean’s Hero of the Seas. At 82 feet high and 164 feet wide, it is the largest single-piece glass and steel structure ever lifted on a ship. The AquaDome is one of the signature features of every Icon-class ship in the cruise line’s fleet. One of the most recognizable features of Royal Caribbean’s Icon Class has officially taken shape on the line’s newest ship. Workers at the Meyer Turku shipyard successfully lifted the massive AquaDome onto the 248,663-gross-ton Hero of the Seas on June 28,...