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Welcome back to the Grand Bahamas shipyard where the Carnival Conquest overhaul is
already in progress.
I'm Peter Gonzalez and I'm showing you
how we make FunShip 2.0 a reality.
It took four days for 900 workers cruise work around the clock
to remove everything from fixtures to floors.
That means work is being done on every deck.
I'm standing in the up dining room upper deck and downstairs
hundreds of hungry workers just arrive for today's lunch.
Throughout the fourteen days dry-dock
dock these workers will eat almost
almost 40 thousand meals.
To put that into relative terms,
you eat three meals a day and that would take you about 37 years.
We are now in the end of dry-dock and the best part about that is
you no longer need to use your imagination
to see what the spaces are going to look like.
To give you an example, this stateroom used to have windows that were 3x4.
Now they are floor to ceiling.
Here at the dry-dock
every member of the team has a specific job.
From electricians to interior designers
they are all cards in the machine.
The efforts of these team members can be noticed in just about all guest areas,
but one of the largest jobs
is the one you'll never see.
So I had a chance to meet up with Jan-Erik, and when you have questions about
dry-dock
he is the man to talk to.
And he showed me what's going on
under the blue line.
There you have the thrusters.
They are used mainly for maneuvering.
They are 2,500 horse power each.
2,500 horse power each? And there are six of them
That's like thirty-six muscle cars!
These are the blocks where the Conquest rests on during her dry-dock.
Now, to give you an idea
I'm about 6 feet tall and
these things are taller than I am.
Blocks just like this one
run the entire length of the ship from bow to stern.
It is very important that the ship is positioned
exactly on these blocks.
There are basically internal pillars
that have to meet these blocks
and it's very important that they do position the ship exactly on
So right now
now I'm holding up the ship. Right?
Can I get that on camera? He, he ...legitimately holding up the ship.
He, he ...legitimately holding up the ship.
You are a strong man. You're welcome everybody. You're welcome.
We do have some waste. We do separate the scraps out. What happens to that
stuff?
The yard is recycling a lot of the material and being reused.
The silicone paint, the blue paint that you see here is all about fuel saving.
In this dry-dock we just did a touch-up.
The whole condition of the paint was in a very good shape. How effective is that paint?
To me as somebody from land, I would never think that paint is so important.
No, it is very important.
We see a big fuel saving.
Sometimes three, four, five, six percent and it's big, very big.
great big you can do it at least in the
You can do the calculations. It adds up.
There's no resistance there. I mean, it is like a dolphin, a big dolphin.
How is it that
you guys are able to do all of this in fourteen days?
It takes a lot of planning. We need at least eight to nine days in dry-dock
to do all this work.
It's a continuous operation, 24 hours.
I think everybody's going to like all the changes.
Well the changes we are doing upstairs with all the new hotel renews ...
I mean, it's great.
We're doing a lot this time
and the ship is going to look brand new.
So, it's crazy because you come to dry dock and you see all of this work
going on upstairs and you have no idea
how much is going on under the surface. You really have to be here to understand.
I mean, basically
this is the reason why we are going to dry-dock. It's everything that is below the blue line.
So, what does all this mean to you...
So, what does all this mean to you...
It means, everyone's hard work will transform this...
into this!
Thanks for watching the transformation of the Carnival Conquest.
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