KWofPerth

On Ovation now.. Mystery Island and Port Vila cancelled due to bad weather. Heading from Noumea to New Zealand Bay of Islands instead.
 

I looks like Brilliance of the seas has been pulled out of Sydney for 24-25 season.  All port bookings for Sydney and the around Australia cruise have disappeared.
So only Ovation in Sydney for 24-25 season.
Hopefully it will turn up in Melbourne port bookings.

When Royal go back to Hong Kong, I think it will be with Spectrum and probably next year.
Singapore has been good to Royal and they won’t be deploying a old ship .It will be Quantum class or better.
I don’t think in will be a Oasis just yet and the only ship I can think of is Anthem.
Quantum class has been successful in the pacific and another would go well in the long term in Alaska,Los Angeles, Australia  ( Lelepa) and possibly even Tokyo.

Huge if true. Which I hope it is.

Not cool. Not cool at all.

Whoopsie.... someone had a bad day....
On a positive note... lifeboat floats.... tick

While it is pure speculation, I don't think an Oasis ship would be a particularly good fit for cruising around New Zealand. It seems to be far more suited to 7 nights to the Islands and back as the weather is warmer and more settled to make the most of all the outdoor experiences. Also, as @twangster said earlier it lends itself to a set repeatable itinerary, maybe just alternating between 2 groups of Islands and Lelepa, similar to an East / West Caribbean concept.
If it did come to NZ it would not be able to travel to Milford Sound as they want to remove large ships going into that region and that is probably one of the best attractions for cruising in NZ.
 

I'm guessing his final moment on board may have looked something like this

Amen. It's all but impossible to fall overboard a la some Scooby Doo bafoonery

It’s the tropics,no penguins.

This sounds like a movie. Avatar anyone?

If I was this individual the first thing he should do (assuming he gets release from medical center) is go down to the casino and make big bet. Has to be the luckiest person on the planet

Carnival cruise ship passenger’s miraculous survival after falling overboard | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

I'm sure it's being discussed.  Lots of things get discussed but never happen.  But if it was greenlit at corporate, I doubt they'd want the captain blabbing about it

I've learned to take what Captains say at their on board events with a huge grain of salt  having heard a number of whale tales.  
I'm not saying it isn't true, but I've heard some good ones I'm glad I never posted. 

Wouldn’t it be good. I thought one of the gurus he could confirm it.

Huge if true. Which I hope it is.

Huge if true. Which I hope it is.

I was just at the Captain’s corner on Ovation and someone asked about building smaller ships.
The Captain said Royal Caribbean is in the planning stage of a new class of ship. Something between Radiance and Voyager.
Has anyone heard of this?

Royal is back in Sydney.
This is probably the closest we will get to a oasis class in Sydney.

Yep statistics like that prove nothing. However the 2020 excess mortality figures are pretty clear cut. The world including cruising needed a pause to get things right and people protected but now everyone has had the chance to do that we should be moving on and cruising should be no different.

Got off quantum today and can confirm plenty of Corona on board!

Our cruise on Ovation has ended so I thought I would give my final thoughts.
It was great to be back on Royal after two years of shut down. Apart from the initial confusion during the boarding process they rest of the cruise has been very smooth and felt like any pre-pandemic cruise. The ship had around 3000 guests so was not full. This was great as there was always seats available in the Windjammer and other venues and at no time did the ship fell crowded. The crew is a couple of hundred short of normal so wait times could be a little longer than usual but not as issue for us.
The main disappointment I have is that Royal now charge for the North Star and iFly during non port days when previously this was complementary, bumper cars are still included.
The crew have worked very hard and some of them will be returning home in the coming months as their contracts end. Due to staff shortages the time between contracts is very short and the ones returning will be back after around 6 to 8 weeks. This is quite hard for some of them as the family time is very short.
The cruise following ours is a country and western/rock charter and the ship will be near capacity so that will be more of a challenge for the lovely crew.
While one cruise has ended we can now look forward to our next holiday on Quantum early next year knowing what a great experience that will be.