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 I'm surprised this part of the ship doesn't get used more. It probably does in sunnier parts of the world. After dropping us off in New York, the ship will be going on a little trip to the Bahamas for a few days. After that, some 1700 of the passengers who are currently on board, that's about 80% of them, will be getting back on board for the trip back to Southampton. It gets about a bit, this boat; it was in Norway about ten days ago. I had forgotten that until I saw one of the cabin stewards last night using bag from a shop called 'tennisshop.no'. It took me a while to realise just how high this deck is. A couple of times I came out of the computer room or cinema and started running up the stairs, only to find that I was out of breath before I got here. Thinking about it, I would never run up eleven flights of stairs on the land. I think it's because boats are long things that you don't realise this one is taller than any building in a typical town. It's also worth noting that in this era of satellite communications, there isn't one of those long HF antenna cables which were a feature of ships in the 20th century. UTC Time: 11:44, Sunday 01 July 2007 Local Time: 08:44, Sunday 01 July 2007 Estimate of longitude: 62° 56' 49.82" W = -62.947172° Estimate of latitude: 41° 21' 59.24" N = 41.366456° Possible error on position estimate: 5000 metres | |