Carnival Cruise Ship Explored On Science Channel Series

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico: Carnival Cruise Lines was featured on the Science Channel during the series of "How to Build...Everything" as it unveiled the Carnival Miracle cruise ship during a "do-it-yourself guide for building humanity's greatest inventions" episode.

The Science Channel series debuted on Wednesday, June 22, as a new educational TV show that features what actually goes into constructing a modern-day cruise ship with educated views along the way. Science and engineer experts explain the concepts of buoyancy and water displacement with fun and easy to grasp concepts, and this episode just happened to be about a Carnival cruise.

According to the official "How to Build ... Everything" press release, the show features a cast of clever personalities from a comedian to an astronaut. The show offers brilliant commentators that take the audience through each project.

"We continue to explore the ingenuity behind engineering and manufacturing while introducing a new group of this generation's science vanguards," Marc Etkind, general manager of Science Channel, said in the original press release. "It's a great time for Science Channel as we fuel the brand with mind-blowing content."

Structured in the spirit of a home installation guide, each half hour episode of "HOW TO BUILD... EVERYTHING" breaks down the step-by-step process behind some of the world's most complex apparatuses in a way that armchair engineers and curious minds can follow. From an Apache helicopter to a hovercraft, a cruise ship or a satellite, each episode features three machines as part of a tongue-in-cheek instruction manual.

As for the Carnival Miracle, the segment highlighted the 2,124 passenger ship’s bridge, engine room, restaurants, bars, lounges, and other below-deck spaces. It also reveals some cruise ship secrets from behind the scenes on this Spirit-class vessel. The segment is actually remarkable as the Science Channel describes everything in layman terms for the audience.

The Carnival Miracle made its first maiden voyage on February 27, 2004 to the Bahamas. The Spirit-class cruise ship has a gross tonnage of 88,500 GT, a length of 963 ft (294 m), and has 12 decks.

On this ship, Carnival is currently offering 2 different 7-night sailings out of Long Beach (Los Angeles). One itinerary goes to Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Cabo San Lucas and the other travels to Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Lucas.