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Celebrity Solstice Floats Celebrity Solstice Floats
In a major step toward completion, the hotly anticipated Celebrity Solstice, which officially debuts on November 23, was floated out Sunday at Germany's Meyer Werft shipyard. As befits the term, a "float out" is the step in the shipbuilding process in which the dry dock the vessel had been resting in is gradually filled with water until the ship floats on its own.
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