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There's an unintentionally hilarious PR video doing the rounds, which shows happy shiny computer generated white people living it up in the suites, the restaurants, bars - then towards the end you see some of the service staff, and they're all black and hispanic.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 04:32:38 AM EST
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Having worked on several of these giant cruise ships supplying 'artworks', in cooperation with the US architects - WBL Inc. and the RCL-owned art division - International Corporate Art, I have some small insight into this particular corporate mind.  The ships btw are built at Naantali, Finland.

I had the same relationship with Metallica concerts - hate the show, but you gotta admire the logistics. I was asked to bid on Oasis, but offers had to be in dollars, so I declined. 7 ships ago they were a very useful client - endless budgets and artistic freedom, with 50% up front and 50 on installation, and paid on time.

The Dante's inferno stage of red steel welding at the beginning was mostly done by highly skilled Finns and Estonians. And most of the cabins are built as complete modules in Finland with all services incorporated - they are slotted into place and hooked up. But come the fitting stage (more than 14 months) for all the other spaces on board, the ships were a hive of multiculturalism.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 05:18:42 AM EST
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