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I was on the Brilliance of the Seas and the Eclipse recently, and noticed that the Brilliance had a deck 13 but the Eclipse didn't. I checked other RCCL ships and some have a deck 13 but others don't.
It looks like NCL has them, but Carnival companies don't.
Any ideas?
Some of it might be due to local cultural or beliefs but sometimes it is traditional. For example since the Mardi Gras was the old Canadian Pacific ship Empress of Canada, she came with an Empress Deck. In 1972 Carnival spent as little money as possible to refit the ship so she still had an Empress Deck and when it came to the later ships they kept the name at first for similarity in the product and today it is just traditional have an Empress Deck on a Carnival ship.
The world was considered flat until science proved otherwise. Copernicus went to jail for contradicting the bible's error in the constellations, and proving it with science. None of our cruiseships would be here if not for the heretics.
It is amazing how people doubt science but fall far illogical mythology.
quote:It is amazing how people doubt science but fall far illogical mythology.
That's because people don't want to see what the real facts are. No one would rather try to find out the real answer. It's easier to believe a lie, because a lie is much prettier than the truth. I prefer the truth.
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