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in this video I'm gonna tell you about
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the most extreme makeover that a cruise
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ship can go through I'm going Beveridge
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are the tips of all travelers we're
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gonna take a look at the silver sea
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silver spirit being cut in half pulled
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apart and having a whole new midsection
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added to create a bigger longer and more
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glitzy ship grab your hard hat and let's
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go take a look at the silver sea silver
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spirit being cut in half Tyrion the
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shipyard it's a magnificent sight you
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have the huge silver spirit in the
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and alongside it is an already made
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midsection forty nine foot long ten
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decks high that's going to be inserted
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into the middle of the ship it's an
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incredibly fast process the ship arrived
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in the drydock about five days to six
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days before what you're seeing here now
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process that we attended to see was the
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last bit of cutting once it was cut
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there's a series of little trolley
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devices underneath the front of the ship
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which then takes the full weight of the
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ship and then begins to move slowly
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pulling apart the ship now it takes a
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almost a day to actually move the ship
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apart ops they do it really really
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slowly once it's far enough apart they
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then bring it on these little motorized
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trucks the midsection it's 49 foot high
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it's ten stories high it's absolutely
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enormous they just slide it into the
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push it back together and then begin the
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process of welding the ship back
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together and then they begin all the
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interior fit out and during that process
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a whole lot of changes I've got a hand
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on 34 new passenger cabins 20 new crew
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cabins but also importantly during this
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process they will increase the number of
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restaurants from 6 to 8 they'll be
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adding the arts cafe extending the pool
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deck revamping the spa and the fitness
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area the ship itself I think look
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fantastic with the mid section it looked
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a longer sleeker ship so why on earth
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are silver sea and not just building a
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new ship well this whole project
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including refurbishing the whole ship
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and some technical differences is going
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to only cost only I say around about 70
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million US dollars now that sounds a lot
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of money but if you bear in mind
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building a new ship can cost up to 500
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and above dollars so it makes huge sense
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if you want to expand capacity and
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really change a ship to cut in half an
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adamant section so that's why cruise
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lines like silver seed do this process
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no other bizarre side effects that are
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discovered of actually lengthening a
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ship is it actually will be able to go
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faster and become more efficient it's
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something to do with the physics of
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going through the water it's more
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streamlined and so actually it becomes a
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more efficient ship it's a magnificent
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experience seeing a ship in a drydock
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being worked on cut apart
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moved apart is quite incredible hope you
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