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I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 4006.

Maybe you've heard the term dry dock, but what happens during a dry dock and what is it all

about and why are they so important?

This week, we're going to talk all about Royal Caribbean Cruise dry docks.

Here we go.

Royal Caribbean just finished up a dry dock for one of its ships' harmony of the seas, and

another ship is heading for a dry dock as well.

But what is dry dock?

What does that mean?

What does anything mean in life?

Well, we'll get to some of those questions here today on this episode.

And joining me to talk about dry docks and everything that it has to do

with whatever happens in those things is a good friend of mine commander don goldstein

retired the United States Coast Guard who has over 32 years of experience in marine matters

and also loves to go on Royal Caribbean Cruises. Don, welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast.

Hi, Matt. How are you today? Excellent. Excellent. It's good to have you on here to talk about Dry Dox because,

you know, part of this is, I think, number one, maritime matters or sometimes less understood by

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