450 Carnival's Forgotten Ship + Norwegian Epic Review

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We get a review of Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Epic. Plus, Jake Williams from the Canceled series on YouTube talks about his latest project, Carnival Cruise Line's forgotten Pinnacle-class ship.

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0:40.1	Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. Coming up on this week's show, we'll talk to Jake Williams. He did a YouTube series. Or actually, he has a YouTube series called Canceled. And he featured one of Carnival's projects that they scrapped called the Pinnacle Class,
0:43.5	which was essentially supposed to be one of the first Oasis-class ships.
0:47.7	Carnival scrapped it, Royal Caribbean, wound up launching a huge ship.
0:49.7	So Jake Williams is stopping by in just a couple of minutes.
0:53.8	I'm going to roll a little generic this week because, well, as of right now, there's no internet here.
1:13.5	And also, the past 48 hours have been cleaning up a family house here in Jacksonville. So mind is shot. No internet. Yeah, probably going to go into Dunkin' Donuts to upload this show. So with that said, we're going to go right to Jake. Hey, Jake, what's up, buddy? Thanks for being here. Thank you very much for having me. Okay, Jake, I got to tell you, just from the research I've been doing since I watched your documentary,
1:19.3	this ship was freaking mind-blowing, man, a mountain, a monorail, a lazy river.
1:22.6	Give us some background about this Carnival Pinnacle Class Project.
1:29.2	Well, the Carnival Pinnacle Project, that started way back in, I believe it was 2004 when Carnival sent out a memo to their top executives to say, hey, let's create this mega ship
1:37.2	unlike any other.
1:38.4	And what most don't know is this was kind of a war between Carnival Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean.
1:45.3	Royal Caribbean was working on Oasis and Carnival was working on Pinnacle. Pinnacle obviously never came to fruition,
1:51.1	but Oasis did. And Pinnacle was just this incredibly massive ship, almost on the same scale
1:58.5	as Oasis of the Seas. You say incredibly massive. How massive?
2:02.7	So it would have been at least 5,000 passenger capacity.
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