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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2011

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

One of the former navigational officers from the legendary SS United States talks about that experience and his new book, "One with the Sea: An Inspiring Rags-to-Riches Saga of the Son of an Irish Immigrant."

Hear a listener review of the Explorer of the Seas and Cruise News.

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0:00.0	Okay, standby.
0:02.2	Broadcasting from the Cruise Radio Studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:06.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:07.8	Hey, I'm Matt Baskford.
0:08.9	And I'm Doug Parker.
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0:14.0	On this show, we'll talk to a gentleman who was once a navigational officer aboard the SS United States.
0:20.2	Maritime Attorney Jim Walker will talk to us, and we'll get a review of the Explorer of the Seas by listener David Stern. But first, Stuart Sheron, the cruise guy is here. Hi, Stuart. Hey, Matt. Hey, Doug. Hey, man. Let's get right to it. Royal Caribbean announced that they're going to be upgrading a lot of their ships. Now, is this an industry first to be upgrading so many ships at one time?
0:39.3	And it's the whole fleet, I understand?
0:41.5	It is fleet wide, and no, it's not the first time.
0:44.4	Holland America actually did something like this.
0:47.9	Carnival has done, you know, something close to that.
0:51.6	Yeah.
0:52.0	You know, as far as the update.
0:53.3	But Royal Caribbean is going to be spending about $300 million between now and 2014,
1:00.0	which is the next time they're going to have a new ship hit the water.
1:03.9	And what they're going to be doing is going to be taking a lot of the very highly acclaimed features of the Oasis class ships and making them more available on the other ships.
1:15.7	They're going to be expanding the Wi-Fi.
1:17.7	They call it pervasive Wi-Fi.
1:19.3	We still don't really know what that means.
1:21.3	I mean, we know what pervasive means.
1:23.3	But from what I'm told that the Wi-Fi, instead of just being in hotspots on the ship,
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