''Adventure of the Seas'' is a operated by

Royal Caribbean International Royal Caribbean International (RCI), also formerly known as Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL), is a cruise line brand founded in 1968 in Norway and organised as a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Group since 1997. Based in Miami, Flori ...

. The vessel was launched and entered service in 2001. Registered in the

Bahamas The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to ...

, ''Adventure of the Seas'' has cruised from ports in the United States and Europe to sites in the

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

, Canada and Europe. The ship has a and is long with capacity for 3,807 guests.

Design and description

''Adventure of the Seas'' is the third of five s measured at , and . The vessel is long with a

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of at the

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and at the extreme. The vessel has a

draft Draft, The Draft, or Draught may refer to: Watercraft dimensions * Draft (hull), the distance from waterline to keel of a vessel * Draft (sail), degree of curvature in a sail * Air draft, distance from waterline to the highest point on a vessel ...

of and a depth of . The vessel is powered by a diesel-electric system composed of six

Wärtsilä Wärtsilä Oyj Abp (), trading internationally as Wärtsilä Corporation, is a Finnish company which manufactures and services power sources and other equipment in the marine and energy markets. The core products of Wärtsilä include technol ...

12V46 engines for a total of driving three

ABB ABB Ltd. is a Swedish- Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. The company was formed in 1988 when Sweden's Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA) and Switzerland's Brown, Boveri & Cie merged to create ...

Azipod Azipod is a trademark azimuth thruster pod design, a marine propulsion unit consisting of a fixed pitch propeller mounted on a steerable gondola ("pod") containing the electric motor driving the propeller, allowing ships to be more maneuverable ...

s and four

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s. 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-Yards Turku New Shipyard in Finland. The ship's

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was

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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

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along with Margaret McDonnell and Richard Lucas of the

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. The vessel is operated by

(RCI) and is registered at

Nassau, Bahamas Nassau ( ) is the capital and largest city of the Bahamas. With a population of 274,400 as of 2016, or just over 70% of the entire population of the Bahamas, Nassau is commonly defined as a primate city, dwarfing all other towns in the country. ...

. ''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 The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...

and Canada and from European ports to

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, 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.

COVID-19 pandemic

During the

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, on 22 May 2020, ''Loop Jamaica'' reported that five 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 19 May with 1,044 Jamaican workers aboard. All Jamaican workers were to be repatriated and tested for the virus. Those not of Jamaican nationality, stated to be over 300 people, were not allowed to disembark. By 24 May, nine crew members in total had tested positive; by 26 May, 19 in total had tested positive, and 624 negative. The ship remained in the

St. Maarten Sint Maarten () is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 on an area of , it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the north ...

area during the pandemic. On 19 March 2021, it was announced that Royal Caribbean would resume cruise services in the Caribbean, with ''Adventure of the Seas'' operating from Nassau, beginning in June 2021. Despite the ongoing pandemic, guests would be allowed to board the ship after having shown proof of vaccination and the entire crew would be vaccinated. In November 2022, Royal Caribbean updated its policy and stated that "Pre-cruise testing is no longer required to sail, with a few exceptions. At this time, only the following sailings have pre-cruise testing requirements: For Cruises from the U.S. and Caribbean with stops in Colombia, Haiti, or Honduras From Transatlantic Cruises For Cruises from Australia."

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