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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2010

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week are are aboard the brand new Celebrity Eclipse. This is the third Solstice-class and is over the top remarkable! There is plenty of great interviews in this episode.

We have interviews with:

President and CEO, Daniel Hanrahan
TV Personality, Geoff Edwards (RIP)
Master Chef, Jacques Van Staden
Passengers

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard to Cruise Radio, your home port for everything, cruising and more.
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0:15.7	From the Cruise One Bubble Studios aboard the brand new celebrity eclipse somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
0:21.2	I'm Matt Baskford.
0:22.1	And I'm Doug Parker.
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0:29.3	Don't forget about premium content, giving you full access to our unedited interviews.
0:34.3	All the stuff that doesn't make it to the free shows each week. Just go to
0:38.3	cruiseradio.net. As Matt mentioned, we are aboard the Celebrity Eclipse, and what an
0:42.5	amazing ship this is. The ship is over a thousand foot long, 120 foot wide. It's got 17 decks,
0:49.1	basically 17 stories high, holds over 2,800 people, and was just involved in some humanitarian aid earlier
0:55.5	this year. Following, as you very well know, the eruption of the Icelandic volcano, which
1:00.8	shut down a lot of that European airspace, the brand new eclipse, which was fresh out of dry
1:05.2	dock, basically rescued 2,000 British tourists who were stranded in Spain and essentially shipped them back
1:12.6	to Southampton as an act of goodwill.
1:14.6	This is actually the third ship in the solstice class. There's the equinox in the solstice,
1:19.6	now there's the eclipse, with two more on the way.
1:21.6	We just came out of the press conference where President and CEO of celebrity Daniel Hanrahan was speaking.
1:28.1	And I posed this question to him.
1:29.9	Basically, with all the crazy stuff going on on new cruise lines, like rock climbing walls,
1:36.4	zip lines and flow rider surf machines, I wondered if celebrity was feeling any kind of pressure
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