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working for the Atlanta Police Department we had to know everything about the Midtown precinct. And this ship is like a floating city.”
    “That makes sense,” agreed Kate, placing her hand over her mouth to stifle another yawn.
    The captain droned on. “No matter how many stripes you have, requisitioning requires permissions. If I have a request, I give it to the executive chef and he gives it to the provision master. Oh, and we have an emergency backup generator on board to supply the freezer,” the captain added, shuffling his charges along to another area.
    “What’s in this area marked Secret?” Juliette asked.
    “This is our waste treatment area. We operate 24/7, and there are seven guys on two shifts in the garbage room. All waste on ship is processed in here. This is the third largest cruise ship in the world. With six thousand aboard, it’s like a small town, but we can’t get rid of the sewage until we’re twelve nautical miles off land.
    “We consume approximately 211,360 gallons a day of fresh water, and we’re also able to produce fresh water on board from sea water through the process of evaporation and reverse osmosis,” the captain explained.
    “We have twenty-three stations and a food drainage system. The food goes into the main tanks and is cut with blades and turned into slurry. We feed the fish in the Mediterranean, but we do not feed the seagulls.”
    He then led the group to the housekeeping department. “Housekeeping cleans twice a day,” said the captain, walking them through the laundry facilities while he spoke of the two tunnel-wash systems that could handle more than fourteen tons within twenty-four hours, the four wet-cleaning machines, the two dryers for the wet cleaning machines, and the nine medium washing machines.
    “That’s a lot of laundry,” said Juliette.
    The captain agreed and continued. “Our laundry master operates this shop 24-7, nonstop. There are twenty laundry personnel working three shifts. We clean napkins, towels, sheets and more; we wash and press. Yellow tags indicate clean; blue is dirty; red is special linen. We avoid cross-contamination in dry cleaning. We have two types of batch washing machines, a tumble washing machine, and a pressing machine. It’s a very high-tech operation. Every two and a half minutes we load another twenty-five kilograms of dirty clothes. The dryers are automatic. The soap is automatic. We do six pieces a minute of duvet covers, 30,000 pieces of linen, 15,000 napkins, 15,000 towels, and here’s the pressing area.
    “The towel machine folds the towels automatically. There’s a flatwork ironer for automatic folding. Then there’s spa linen, which is tumbled in the washing machine.”
    “I’d like to have some of those machines in my house,” said Juliette.
    “Wouldn’t everyone?” Kate laughed.
    “Now we’ll go up to the bridge viewing room. Everything goes through the bridge. Everything is under our control. We have all the information we need here.” Once there, the captain introduced them to First Officer Alonzo Gonzales.
    Will frowned as the first officer lifted Juliette’s hand and kissed it.
    “Where are we now?” Juliette asked the first officer.
    “We’re leaving Barcelona, and you can see all the sailing boats, so you have to be very careful to keep a safe distance from the traffic,” he said from in front of the radar screen. “The next closest port is one nautical mile away. Here’s the reporting point, the next and last ports of call, the number of crew and passengers, and the fuel gauge.
    “Our automatic radar plotting aids give the navigator a picture of the coastline, islands, beacons, other ships, and similar objects on the surface. Our GPS consists of twenty-four satellites in orbit around the earth, which allows us to maintain continuous tracking of the ship’s position, exact speed, and accurate time.
    “Weather updates are sent four times a day, and we log our weather in progress in