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🗓️ 1 March 2011

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week we sit down and talk with Carnival Cruise Line's Ship Architect & Designer, Joe Farcus. Joe tells us what goes into ship design and the upcoming Carnival Magic.

Stewart Chiron, the Cruise Guy, updates our Cruise News. Hear about NCL pulling out of Mazatlan, more ships going to St. Kitts, more delays because of fog, and the drug bust in the port of Montego Bay.

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard to Cruise Radio, your home port for everything, cruising and more.
0:06.8	Subscribe to our newsletter and weekly radio show at CruiseRadio.net.
0:12.7	From the Cruise Radio Studios in Jacksonville, Florida, I'm Matt Baskford.
0:17.3	And I'm Doug Parker. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn. We're all there at cruise radio.net. On this show, very excited to have the man. Joe Farkas, ship architect and designer. If you have sailed on a carnival ship, this guy created it. We'll talk to him in just a moment. But first, Stuart Shiran, the cruise guy is with us. Hello, Stuart.
0:38.0	Hey, Matt.
0:38.4	Hey, Doug.
0:38.9	Hey, man.
0:41.1	NCL pulls out of Mazadlawn.
0:41.6	Why? Well, NCL, like Disney, has pulled out for the season, but actually, NCL's not returning to
0:47.2	Mexico, so they're gone indefinitely from sailing there.
0:51.4	Last week, two men were shot and killed outside a hotel back entrance.
0:58.1	It was not near the cruise ships, but unfortunately it was enough for MCL to say,
1:03.9	we're done with what's going on, all things considered, and they're going to be like Disney are going to spend two days
1:13.4	out in Cabo San Lucas instead. They're just not going to take a chance.
1:17.3	Hmm, that's good. Fog issues again over the weekend for, was it just Carnival this time,
1:21.6	or was it for Royal as well?
1:22.6	It was Carnival and Royal Caribbean on Sunday. The fog was just too great.
1:28.7	They had zero visibility.
1:30.4	So instead of the ship arriving around five or six in the morning, the ship didn't arrive until after 10,
1:36.5	and that just delayed departures for both ships.
1:40.7	And look, it happens.
1:43.2	And, you know, passengers have got to understand that the cruise lines
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