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My name is Doug Parker.

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of

Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. A review of Carnival Horizon this week at

eight nights sailing down to the ABC Islands from Matthew. He's checking in with us in just a bit.

Staff writer Richard Sims cruising around Alaska this week. We couldn't connect because he was over in Glacier

Bay as I record this. You know, a couple of months ago, I got an email from some friends who

said, you've got to check this website out. So I got off the ship, and it was thecruesglobe.com.

And I was like, wow, this is pretty cool because it basically tracks your cruise on your voyage, the exact path your ship took.

After I was playing with it on the flight home, I thought, okay, I got to learn more about this.

So I checked out, did some research, and it turns out that the cruise YouTuber Emma Lattice from Emma Cruz is she's one of the co-creators, along with Matthew Jones, and they're both here on the line to talk about this app and answer some questions I had. So, Emma, Matthew, welcome. Nice to be here. Yeah, a lot to unpack here because this is a really cool platform, thecruesglobe.com. So we're going to get to all of this in a few minutes, but I want to hear the origin story. What made you want to create this? I think it was kind of naturally an extension

of the business that we set up a couple of years before. So the cruisemaps.com that some people

may have heard of is creating print keepsake maps of your exact cruise route based on

AIS satellite tracking data. And we just kind of from speaking to

thousands of customers there realized that there was this sense that crews had kind of been

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