You are listening to this is Cruise Radio Rewind. Real reviews from real cruisers.

I'm actually recording this episode of Cruise Radio Rewind in the Miami International Airport at Terminal D49.

And I'm being looked at by a lot of people, but it's all good because we have to keep the show rolling.

So, yeah, heading back to Jacksonville, just got on with the, what was the christening today, a naming ceremony,

Princess Cruz's brand new ship, Sky Princess.

So that's on the way on our first Caribbean sailing as we speak.

Was on Norwegian sky over the past few days went over to the Bahamas was

supposed to go to great stirrup key but bad weather stopped us from that more on that later though

if you want to see like the full recap it's on the website at cruiseradio.net msc cruises opened up their

new island msc ocean key reserve on December 5th. And while here in

Miami, I had a chance to talk with Ken Musket. He's the chief operating officer of MSC

Cruises, USA. So we'll jump to that interview first, and then following Ken, while I was sailing on

MSC Merivia, I had a chance to catch up with a passenger on board to get his thoughts of Merivia in kind of the 2019 version of MSC cruises and what he thinks of it.

So we'll jump right to that after Kin's interview.

Joining us again is Ken Muscatizzi, C.O. of MSC. Cruises, North America.

Good to talk to you again, man.

Great to be here. Thanks for having me.

MSC. Cruises Ocean Key Marine Reserve. Talk to us a little bit about it. Look, this has been an unbelievable process. It's been close to a four-year process of taking

a island very near Bimini that was a sand extraction, almost a dumping ground, unfortunately,

and spending the last four years in building it into a beautiful paradise.

So it is officially named a marine reserve because we've protected 65 miles around the island

to be a marine reserve, very much focus on environmental sustainability

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