[mike00632]

Do you normally "float" a cruise ship though? A more apt analogy might be "dock". Maybe a news report says that a vacation company has broken some regulation so the government docked a cruise ship, meaning they took away a cruise ship like you would dock someone points. It's ambiguous at best.

[animal531]

You could float the idea of it, and you might also think that to float a ship means the process by which it is landed in the water when coming out of a dock?