#1 YouTube video about a cruise ship

I cruised on the Carnival Spirit right after they added the "Green Thunder" waterslide in 2012. It's a vertical-drop waterslide where you start by standing inside a tube... and then the floor drops out from underneath you. It's the scariest and fastest waterslide on any cruise ship in the world.

I shot some video of the Green Thunder waterslide, did a little editing, posted it to YouTube... and promptly forgot all about it. It was just another in a series of cruise ship videos I've posted over the years. Most of them just get a few thousand views.

Imagine my surprise when the video went viral on YouTube! I think the first time I checked to see how the video was doing (a month or two after posting it) it had two million views! Since then, it has continued to be recommended and shared... and as of today it has been viewed over 22 MILLION times! It is not only the most viewed YouTube video about a Carnival cruise... it is actually the most viewed YouTube video about cruise ships, period.

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Congratulations. I am going to take a look at your video now.

Keith

I watched the video, well done!:D

Wanted to post again to say I enjoyed the video.

Keith

What all ships is this on?? I will seriously book one just for this..amazing (and terrifying). Thanks for sharing!

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I just thought I would mention that this video passed a new milestone today. It has now exceeded 26 million views on YouTube!

Also, since I made the original post about it here on CruiseCritic, CC added a new YouTube tag that allows us to post videos directly here in the forums.

So, here's my Carnival Spirit video that went viral on YouTube:

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