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  If
you care to click on the 'thumbnail'-sized photos, you will reveal
full-sized versions of some unusual photos taken by Canadian Phil
Mitterhauser, in St. George's Harbour, Bermuda, when the cruise ship
Norwegian Majesty was, literally, cut into two halves and a new section
added amidships, while she remained in the water! A photographic record
was kept of the whole operation and, although the only images made
available to us include photographs of photographs, you can see pretty
well what was done.
 Here,
Melinda Mitterhauser, Phil's little daughter, explains the layout of the
cruise ship for those of us unfamiliar with the many decks and
corridors... they train them very young these days!
 Although
the wheel is about the right size for Melinda to handle, it's still a
bit high up. Perhaps in a few years' time Melinda will be able to see to
steer this vast ship?
  In
the meantime, one of the officers shows interested parties around the
bridge, where the radar displays St. George's Harbour in all its green
glory...
Our thanks to Phil and Melinda for
sharing their adventures aboard this massive cruise ship, a regular
visitor to Bermuda, bringing holiday makers from Boston. At
approximately US$100 per day per person, guests told us that it was the
best value-for-money vacation available anywhere. The ship takes two
days to reach Bermuda, stays three days and returns to Boston after
another two days.
"For US$700", said a gentleman
on his fourth cruise with the same ship, "There is more
entertainment, food and novelty than you could possibly expect for that
sort of money elsewhere." It does sound very tempting.
Phil and his wife Shelley run the Bermuda
Island Water Ministries, looking out for the welfare of visiting
cruisers and making newcomers to the island feel welcome.
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