The common space, at the bottom of the ship, has a 25-metre swimming pool, cinema, music room, dining room, and what the designers call "a perfect 30m beach".

Instead of armaments, hospital supplies and the materials to build a school were unloaded from a ship to the platform, and thence to landing craft which disgorged them onto a beach.

He claimed that he had been kept for eighteen hours a day in the hold of a ship docked in Long Beach, and deprived of adequate sleep and food.