Largest and Most Innovative 'Fun Ship' Set to Debut
May 1, 2016, from Europe
MIAMI, June 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival
Cruise Line is taking a fun and engaging approach to showcase the
construction of its newest "Fun Ship," Carnival Vista, creating a
series of monthly behind-the-scenes videos shot at the Fincantieri
shipyard in Italy, where the
3,954-passenger vessel is being built. The video can be
viewed
here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVtsmXbf5Kw&feature=youtu.be).
Host Peter Gonzalez – who has
traveled to 30 countries to create videos showcasing the "Fun Ship"
fleet – takes viewers on his 5,132-mile journey from Miami to Monfalcone, Italy, to document Carnival Vista's 26-month
construction.
In the first video, "Birds' Eye View," Gonzalez dons a hard hat
and ventures high above the Fincantieri shipyard to demonstrate the
incredible size of Carnival Vista while highlighting the
painstaking process for cutting and assembling the 150,000 tons of
steel needed to build the massive 1,055-foot-long vessel – the
largest in the Carnival fleet.
Gonzalez visits Fincantieri's fabrication bunker where he
follows workers as they cut, with expert precision, six-ton steel
panels that are conjoined into 1,000-ton sections positioned via
crane to form Carnival Vista's superstructure. Once the exterior
build-out is completed, workers will begin installing innovations
such as SkyRide, a one-of-a-kind suspended cycling experience, a
new 455-foot-long tube slide called Kaleid-o-Slide, and more.
Future segments in the series include preparations, both on
board and ashore, to create the line's first on-board brewery, a
below-deck look at the ship's technical spaces, and the logistics
of installing the three-deck-high IMAX Theater, the first on a
cruise ship.
Carnival Vista is scheduled to enter service from Europe May 1,
2016, then reposition to New
York for a series of voyages in November 2016 followed by the launch of
year-round Caribbean service from
Miami later that month.
Cruise fans, those new to cruising and travel partners can get a
preview of Carnival Vista at www.carnival.com/carnivalvista and
follow @CarnivalVista for regular Twitter updates.
For additional information, contact any travel agent, call
1-800-CARNIVAL or visit carnival.com.
Carnival can also be found on:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/carnivalcruise
Facebook Fan Page: www.facebook.com/carnival
YouTube: www.youtube.com/carnival
Instagram: www.instagram.com/carnival
Journalists also can visit Carnival's media site,
www.carnival-news.com or follow the line's PR department on Twitter
at www.twitter.com/CarnivalPR.
About Carnival Cruise Line
Carnival, a unit of
Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), is "The
World's Most Popular Cruise Line®" with 24 ships operating three-
to 16-day voyages to The Bahamas,
Caribbean, Mexican Riviera,
Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, New England, Bermuda, Europe, Australia, New
Zealand and the Pacific Islands. The company currently
has two 133,500-ton ships on order - Carnival Vista, scheduled to
enter service in 2016, and an as-yet-unnamed vessel set to debut in
2018.
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SOURCE Carnival Cruise Line