Mitsubishi Floats Out AIDAprima

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries floated out AIDAprima from their shipyard at Nagasaki this afternoon.

The 124,500 - GRT ship was towed from the MHI Tategami shipyard to the Kojagi Dock during a one-hour operation. During the journey AIDAprima demonstrated its stability and buoyancy.

There will be extensive testing of various technical systems before fitting out begins at the Kojagi facility.

Delivery is scheduled for September 2015.

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Cruise News Daily Headlines for May 2, 2014

* Customizing So Everybody Gets What Makes Sense to Them
When you’re a global company with customers of lots of different cultures in many different markets, you know that language is only one difference among them. There are many differences, and MSC lives that every day and understands it as a fact of life.
   There's a whole new set of challenges involved when social media comes into the picture, and MSC has employed a solution.

* Water, Water Everywhere - on the Top Deck
Two cruise lines are giving us a behind-the-scenes peek at their top-deck water attractions.
   First up Carnival has their largest WaterWorks aboard Carnival Sunshine which just moved into its new home port at Port Canaveral. In their video, they take us below the deck to show us how they manage 48,000 gallons of water constantly being pumped onto Deck 10 (and above). 
   In their video, Royal Caribbean gives us a look at their FlowRider surf simulators. 

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Managing 48,000 Gallons of Water 10 Stories above Sea

The WaterWorks aqua park on the top deck of Carnival Sunshine is ten stories above the surface of the water and utilizes 48,000 gallons of water constantly being pumped through it. In this video, Carnival takes us behind the scenes (actually under them) to see how all that water is managed.

Flowing across the Royal Caribbean Fleet

In this video, Royal Caribbean tells us all about their FlowRider surf simulators which could originally be found on the top decks of their Freedom-class ships, then twin FlowRiders on the top decks of their Oasis-class ships, and are now being added to the top decks of their Voyager-class ships.

Cruise News Daily Headlines for May 1, 2014

* The Norwegian View
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* Another Opening Day
Seattle’s cruise season begins on Saturday (May 3) with the arrival of two ships.
   Holland America’s Westerdam is expected to berth at 5:45am, and Golden Princess should be alongside by 7:00am.

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