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Can you imagine how it took 700-1,000 workers to build the Noah's Ark Encounter in the span of a year and a half? Yet it took Noah and his family of 8 to build the ark for 55-75 years? That's basically for each member of the family to do the work of 100+ persons. No wonder it took more than half a century! I guess you can read about something and not really think about how tough it must have been. I can see Noah's family probably thought he was a bit crazy? Even though they helped him build but they probably didn't hear from God or have the same close relationship with him. They probably were more sensitive to the laughter and jokes of the townspeople and they probably had more, "Lazy days" to where Noah had to push them to come help build. On top of any possible vandalizing attempts made by the people in those days. If they were so evil that God had to kill them off with a worldwide flood, who can say they didn't try to burn the ark down? The Bible doesn't say anything about what Noah's family went through while building the ark but they must have taken quite a ribbing for all this. Also, I wonder how long they lived in the ark after the flood? Even though God called them out but they would've had to sleep in it until all their homes were built?
As far as the tender/water taxi are they all mostly wheelchair accessible across the board no matter what cruise line you travel with or is this exclusive to Carnival?
Pasé Mi luna de miel en 1991 saliendo de Miami llegando hasta Ocho Ríos, Jamaica regresando por Cozumel, este barco vivió algo más de 30 años mi matrimonio sólo duró 16.
I'm sorry but this sounds like BS. First off, sounds like they are relying on a battery that doesn't necessarily exist? That is how it sounded. Either way, the only way this works is if they can store enough energy in the batteries for essentially the whole trip, because those solar panels are going to do next to nothing. That is not nearly enough surface area for the panels to generate the energy needed to move something that large. I am just not buying it. I mean maybe if its something like where the batteries have the capacity for 90+% of the trip and the panels recharge enough over the course of the trip to make sure the batteries can last the voyage. I just have to imaging with panels that size, you just saying "this ship can go slightly farther than without solar panels". If this was real, I have to imagine the design would at the bare minimum be essentially putting solar panels on nearly every surface. You need as much area as possible covered with panels to push something that large. And even then, does a cruise ship even have enough surface area to generate the power to push a cruise ship with solar? My intuition says no. When you look at the solar vehicles they build in colleges for instance (do they still do that? surely right?), they have the smallest profile possible and are made out of carbon fiber. Point being, when you see the lengths they had to go to get the weight and wind resistance down so the energy these panels produced could actually push a human (they race). They cover every inch of that craft, and while they can get decent speeds in their little "solar bike", think about converting that design to this massive heavy ship. Think about the size of the engines they use to push those massive ships and power the amenities. No damn way. Our solar panels are more efficient than when I was seeing these kids build these things in college 20 years ago, but not THAT more efficient. This is a vaporware ship.
Hi, this is me that you’re talking about. Very easy for people to throw stones and cast judgment when they were not in the situation my friend and I was put in. They made a mistake and they needed to cover up their mistake. I wanted to get another Covid test while I was on the ship and they said they would send a technician to our room to take it but when I said I wanted to watch the results come in, I was told they no longer needed me to take a second test. This outburst was after being held down in the belly of the ship locked in a room for three hours and then locked in our room for a day and a half. When I told them I had COVID three months prior and proved to them by emailing them my Results they said oh it was 91 days ago. If it was 90 days we would let it go. They just did not want us back out on the ship because they were afraid we were going to tell the vaccinated people that were not tested prior to coming on the ship that they were around unvaccinated people. At that time vaccinated people did not want to be around the unvaccinated. They effed up and instead of handling it in a diplomatic way they made a big show and production. Yes, that day I did lose my temper and I apologized to all the workers and if you listen to my video, you will hear me say it’s not anyone here, it’s the people that I dealt with. We were mistreated and I have video to prove it from the minute they stopped us to the minute we got off the cruise. Everyone here is so willing to jump to conclusions without knowing the facts. The fact is I did three Covid test prior to going on the cruise ship. I also did three COVID test after the cruise ship all six were negative. They lied! A lot of information about COVID and COVID testing has come out in the last year or so and I wonder if anyone’s point of view has changed!!
I'm sorry, but that last reason you listed about the price is just not true. It is not true that cruising is cheaper than getting on an airplane and going on a trip. I have first-hand experience in this. If you can't take a family of 4, in 2 seperate hotel rooms, on a 7 day vacation for less than $5000 you need to do more research because you can. Cruising is really expensive once you add all of the hidden fees and things in and the only way to make it cheaper is to go on the older or less nice boats or cruise lines.
You’re forgetting the hotel…. Transportation cost while you’re there…. All your meals…. And entertainment. (All comparable to the level you’re getting on a cruise…. I mean sure if your eating fast food every day and just sitting on the beach on a land based vacation, you could possible get it cheaper I guess)
Thank you for sharing. I want to go to the caribbean in October. What low peak mo.would you suggest i ought to take?? Awesome i fo. Thanks again Manhattan to Caribbean 4 10 days
Being my first video back…. I don’t expect many views or likes right away as RU-vids algorithm won’t promote the video until I start posting regularly again.
I'm glad you're doing well, Sal! OK, will you do cruise and other travel news/reports within 15 to 20 minutes? Let's see if robot Sal or AI Sal will do it or if the "real" Sal will do it. You brought out some Carnival cruise line news that you had the inside scoop because you were with them. I liked that. I hope YOU do the reporting and not some AI.
It will be a bit of both. Since I’m not always right in front of a camera and microphone, in order if you get the news out timely sometimes it will be an automated voice.
Glad to see that you’re doing this video and thank you and all the best to you and your wife and your whole family. We were wondering why we didn’t see your videos but we’re looking forward to the new ones. Thank you and take care. God bless.🛳️💖⚓️🙏🏼🥰
Welcome back Sal. Your plans for the future of the channel sound fantastic. Looking forward to continuing following you and Deb. We are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers for a complete recovery.
It is great to have you back. You are the first cruise RU-vid channel I ever watched. I have been subscribed since before the pandemic and will be as long as you are on here. I am happy to hear you are better and hope you become cancer free. Your friend, Glenn Gross
