Two ships named after GAIA

 

1991: the Viking long ship GAIA

 



The Viking longship GAIA in front of the UN in New York City

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The GaiaShip Foundation sponsored the voyage of a full-sized replica Viking longship named GAIA to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The ship sailed under the UNICEF banner as an ambassador from all the world's children and her 'cargo' was thousands of messages of hope and concern from children along her 15,000-mile journey from Norway. These messages reminded world leaders of the pledges made at the UN World Summit for Children in 1990 for a better world for all children.

 



 

 

 



The Gaiaship

© 2002 Gaia Ship Foundation

 

2002:

Innovative, environmentally friendly design

 

The renowned Danish naval architect Tage Wandborg has already developed a design for the second vessel. GAIASHIP will be 236 meters (about 774 feet) in length, with a displacement of 33,236 metric tons and a gross tonnage of 58,400 GRT. She will carry 1,400 passengers in very high quality accommodation, plus 550 officers, staff and crew.  The design and construction of the vessel is wholly environmentally friendly, with gas turbine engines, solar panels,  refuse incineration and recycling.

 

The GAIA Globe

 

The major feature is a gigantic globe, 6 decks high and located amidships. Within this globe is a main deck where each of the world's major religions has its own holy place, side by side, with an opening onto a walkway round a staircase and an elevator. The deck below is for the politicians and bureaucrats, with a conference and meeting suite allocated for the use of the United Nations. The deck above forms a common religious/political meeting place where everybody can get together to strengthen what is, despite all our differences, our natural common fellowship.

 

Special GAIA features

 

Apart from the features listed above plus the usual restaurants, bars, theater, pool, casino and shops, GAIASHIP will - more unusually - include:

 

• A Zodiac Boating Center for marine environment education and passenger use
• An underwater marine educational laboratory
• The Gaia gallery, lounge, library and boutiques
• An advanced Information, Media and Information Technology Center with onboard GAIASHIP television station

 

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