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between the wheelhouse and control room, and between the two separated high voltage switchboards and the two separate cyclo-converter rooms.

Room with a View

In addition to mechanical and environ- mental achievements onboard Spirit, the ship is sure to garner top marks from the owner and cruisers alike. The trend for more outside rooms and more rooms with balconies has been building for years. On Spirit, Carnival and K.MY deliver with an amazing 70 percent of all staterooms featuring a balcony - 80 per- cent of which are outside staterooms.

This was made possible, in part, by designing a narrower superstructure, which allowed one more deck with pas- senger staterooms. There are a total of 1,062 staterooms, and Spirit has a pas- senger capacity of 2,680. In the super- structure. most of the staterooms face the sea. and the technical spaces, includ- ing the air conditioning machinery, are placed in the center of the ship, behind the passenger corridors.

Main Particulars — Carnival Spirit

Builder . .Kvaerner Masa-Yards' New Helsinki . .Carnival Cruises

Classification RINA

GT 85,700

Length, o.a .959.6 ft. (292.5 m)

Breadth, max . .127.3 ft. (38.8 m)

Breadth, dwl . .105.6 tl. (32.2 m)

Draft, dwl . . .25.6 ft. (7.8 m)

Main engines Wartsila

Machinery Azipod

Main generators ABB

Navigation system .STN Atlas NACOS

Passenger capacity, lower bed 2.124

Passenger capacity, max . 2.680

Passenger staterooms, total 1.062

Passenger staterooms, outside 849 (80 percent)

Passenger staterooms,balcony 750 (70 percent)

Main restaurant capacity . 1.300

Main show lounge capacity 1,170

Crew 961

Speed, service 22 knots

Machinery output 62,370 kW

Propulsion 2 x 17.6 MW

Spirit Earns The Green Star

Carnival Spirit fulfills RINA's new

Green Star environmental standards, consisting of two voluntary RINA class notations. Clean Sea and Clean Air. A leading feature of the Clean Sea nota- tion is that bunker tanks must be installed over double bottoms, to pre- vent accidental discharge of oil. Ships must also be fitted with holding tanks for all black and gray water waste, to prevent organic pollution, and must meet the standards set down in the vol- untary IMO Marpol Annex IV.

The Clean Air notation sets limits on

SOx and NOx emissions from engines, and requires compliance with the volun- tary standards of Annex VI to Marpol.

There is a three percent limit on sulfur content in fuel that can be burnt, and

RINA also sets requirements for refrig- eration gases and their containment in the case of an accident.

Carnival Spirit To Feature

Radiology System

A new state-of-the-art "tele-radiology" system enabling shipboard physicians to digitally transmit X-rays and other patient information to shoreside facili- ties for consultation on a broad range of medical situations will be featured on

Carnival Cruise Lines' new 88,500-ton

Carnival Spirit.

The new MedServe "tele-radiology" system, which was specifically tailored for the Carnival Spirit by U.K.-based

Integrated Dynamics, will utilize a high- speed satellite network link to transmit high-resolution digitized X-rays, elec- trocardiogram images and other patient data to land-based doctors.

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