Cruise ship slips under bridge with 2ft to spare

THE world’s largest cruise ship cleared a crucial obstacle yesterday, lowering its smokestacks to squeeze under a bridge in Denmark.

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

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