New RCL points

On 1/24/2011 7:12 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:51:31 -0600, Janet Wilder
wrote:

On 1/22/2011 8:37 PM, Gadget World wrote:
All he water on modern cruise ships is distilled.

Sea water is used to cool the engines and the steam produced is the
distilled water that is used for drinking, bathing, cooking etc on the
ship.

In the old days cruise ships had to buy water at the ports. Now cruise
ships make their own distilled water while they cool the engines.

If you need distilled water, just turn on your tap and get all you want.

It's been any years since the cruise ship would warn passengers not to
use too much water as they make all they need, distilled, pure, clean
and free!

Inspector gadget


There are still minerals in the processed water. AFAIK, it is not
distilled, but desalinated and purified by reverse osmosis. R/O still
leaves minerals in the water. I have an R/O machine in our home and we
were told to only use distilled water in the Bi-pap machine.

I did ask the cruise line about it and was told that the tap water could
damage the machine. That is why Royal Caribbean and Celebrity provide
the distilled water. Do you really think they'd give it to us for free
if it wasn't necessary?

My thought would be that they can give it to you for free because it
doesn't cost them anything.

Some of the water is R/O, some is distilled and some they get in port.
We use the R/O or distilled water in our batteries on the boat but we
are very careful about using water from the port. We sometimes test
by making a bottle of sun tea. If it turns green, we don't fill our
tanks with that water.

On the current ship we are on (Enchantment of the Seas) they have two
distilleries and two R/O units. They get sea water and flash steam
it. They don't collect the A/C condensate.

The distilled water we have been provided on Royal Caribbean ships is
bottled in plastic jugs with a label and a sealed cap. It's the kind
one purchases in a drug store or a supermarket. I am reasonably certain
that they don't make this on the ship.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
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