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My name is Doug Parker.

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. And Thanksgiving if you're listening to this on November 24th for our friends here in the U.S. Happy Thursday if you're listening outside of the U.S. Richard Sims is here with Cruise News, so we're going to jump right to that first. Hello, Richard. Hey, Doug, How are you? Good, man. It's been a long time.

I know. Well, you know, you've been at sea for a long time. So welcome back.

Thank you. Thank you. Jumping right into the news here. Diamond Princess returned to service for the

first time since the shutdown. Why is this such a big deal? This is a big deal because you may

recall that the Diamond Princess was sort of

the face of COVID and became sort of, you know, the thing that everyone associated with cruising.

Now, if you, there are some really good documentaries out there that you can watch about this

that really sort of illustrate that the problem was less to do with

the cruise ship itself than the way it was the situation was handled with keeping everybody

on board and not, you know, not letting them off so that they could, you know, prevent the

inevitable spread that happened when they were kept on board under these ridiculous circumstances.

But, you know, the Diamond Princess has not sailed since then.

And it's funny because when you think about it, I actually assumed that we were sort of done with the quote-unquote return to service stories because I thought basically everything had returned.

But this is the last in the Princess Fleet to return.

And it is, you know, I think it's, because it became the face of COVID, I think that does

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