hey everybody its Bruce here with traveling with Bruce I've got an update
for you about the Carnival Vista cruise ship this is the ship that is only three
years old and has been having azipod propulsion issues or was they like to
see in the cruise business technical problems for about the last six weeks or
so the ship cannot run at regular speed and so they've had to alter all kinds of
her latest itineraries causing nothing but heartache for everyone involved and
the cruise line has been handing out cruise credits and free cruises going
forward for weeks now on this ship this ship is losing money every day she's at
sea now today is July the 2nd 2019 yesterday the 1st of July the ship
unloaded her passengers 4,000 passengers took on another batch of passengers and
is now running her very last 8-day itinerary into Mexico and back she will
be back in Galveston on July the 9th she'll then immediately offload her
passengers and leave Galveston and go right over to the Bahamas she's heading
to Grand Bahama she has to go to drydock there now normally the carnival people
would send the ship to the dry dock in Grand Bahama they have facility there
that can easily handle the ship the problem is that a few months ago about
three months ago the Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas was in drydock in the
Grand Bahamas and they had an accident inside the drydock where the ship listed
and tilted off to one side twisting the entire drydock unit causing
a crane to crash on the Oasis what a mess
well the ship was damaged but so was the drydock and even as we speak now as I'm
making this video for you here they cannot use that dry dock for repairs in
effect the dry dock facility in Grand Bahama is operating at about a 65
percent capacity right now and they're way behind on work so the Vista can't go
to Grand Bahama and go into one of the dry docks they're all used up so the
solution is Carnival has hired a drydock that is known as a floating dry dock
that is literally sailing to Grand Bahama as we speak this is a Norwegian
built vessel it's called the Boca Vanguard this is a huge huge machine
that is capable of submerging her platform under the water allowing a ship
to sail right over top of her and then they refloat the the unit right back up
and the ship is literally out of the water on top of a floating dry dock very
handy very portable and it can in effect go to the ship if necessary or could
meet the ship wherever it needs to meet it
so the Boca Vanguard is on the way to Grand Bahama she'll be there in the next
four three days she'll be there on the 5th of July the Carnival Vista will be
at the drydock on the 12th of July so the the bulk of Vanguard folks will have
about six or seven days to prep the vessel and get all of our workers and
and all the spare parts and everything lined up at that drydock facility before
the Vista arrives when the Avista gets there the boca vanguard will sink
herself below the waterline the vista will be brought in by tugs the entire
unit will be raised up again and now the vista will be out of the water and that
allows the technicians at that drydock to repair the two azipods underneath the
vista this will take about a week or so and the plan then is that the vista will
be refloated she will go through go through through a few tests to make sure
the azipods work and then she'll head back to Galveston to begin her seven-day
voyages again back into the Caribbean like she's supposed to that's the master
plan so we'll stay on top of this story it's gonna be a logistical feat here
we'll look for photos and videos and see how that goes but in effect that is
what's going on the like I say the boca vanguard
she's 825 feet long she's 220 feet wide she can easily handle the size of this
ship and and her tonnage even though the vistas 133,000 gross tons and she's a
thousand feet long and 120 feet wide not a problem for this floating dry dock to
pick out of the water and I'd get this work
now the question of course is the will the bearing work be sufficient and solve
this problem once and for all everyone's crossing their fingers and
we'll see what happens anyway there you go there's the the update from carnival
the hopes wishes dreams and aspirations of everyone involved and I'll stay on
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