stackyFACTSWhile modern cruise ships look like giant floating resorts, real ocean liners are built entirely differently. Since they have to aggressively smash through brutal oceanic waves instead of lazily hopping between sunny ports, their steel hulls are designed to be almost aggressively indestructible.
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