Apex 2024 Dry Dock
The Apex is now scheduled for a dry dock in late October 2024 into November. I was wondering if anyone would know how extensive Celebrity dry docks are? Will it just be a "refurbishment" dry dock, just tidying up things, or will it be extensive, adding new venues and upgrades? Just curious, since we sail on her in February 2025. If nothing else, maybe she'll have that "New Ship" smell when we get on 🙂
That time in "moth balls" is worse on a ship's hull than operating. The anti-fouling paint on the bottom of the ship, designed to keep barnacles and seaweed from attaching, requires that the ship be moving a lot, so that the water flow past the hull cleans away the dead growth, and the depleted paint surface.
The "law" is SOLAS (Safety Of Life At Sea) Convention, the international safety convention, sponsored by the IMO (the International Maritime Organization. The IMO is a subsidiary o
