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5 Best Celebrity Equinox Cruise Tips
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Celebrity Constellation's $50 Million Refurbishment

Carolyn Spencer Brown
Contributor

How do shipyard workers complete seemingly impossible tasks, such as painting the ship's bottom or making adjustments to propellers? Every two or three years, a ship goes "off the grid," so to speak, making a pilgrimage to a shipyard for maintenance. In industry parlance this process is called "dry-docking" -- which, as the term suggests, means that a ship is actually taken out of the water and hoisted onto blocks in a big, waterless basin.

Related: Cruising Before or After a Dry Dock: What to Expect


Updated January 08, 2020

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