Largest cruise ship squeezes under Danish bridge

Nov 2nd, 2009 - ajc

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KORSOER, Denmark — The world's largest cruise ship has cleared a crucial obstacle on its way to Florida, lowering its smokestacks to squeeze under a bridge in Denmark.

The Oasis of the Seas — which rises about 20 stories high — passed below the Great Belt Fixed Link with a slim margin as it left the Baltic Sea Sunday on its maiden voyage to Florida.Story continues below ↓

Bridge operators said that even after lowering its telescopic smokestacks the giant ship had less than a 2-foot gap.

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