In the fall of 1915, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance sank off the coast ... It was an 800-mile,16-day journey across freezing, rough seas whipped by hurricane-force gales.

She meant that both literally and figuratively. The 4,182-passenger Ovation of the Seas is the first Royal Caribbean Quantum Class ship based in Los Angeles — and also the largest ship ever to sail ...