First day on eclipse cruise
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At 3 PM on Wednesday we boarded luxurious Aquamarine for India's first eclipse cruise. About a thousand people on board had a great opportunity to watch century's longest annular solar eclipse from a point where it is best viewed from- in the world! For a whopping 10 minutes and 46 seconds. There are still 310 nautical miles to be covered and about a day and a half left before we view the celestial marvel in Maldives, but the excitement is already building up.
Let me tell you something about Aquamarine- it is a luxurious ship! I will not be exaggerating if I say it looks like the Titanic ship we saw in the movie. There are numerous restaurants, a swimming pool, a casino and a gymnasium. It is like a moving five star hotel.
I spoke to Mr Swaminathan Iyer, who took this cruise specially to see the eclipse. He is a teacher and cannot wait to go back and show the pictures of eclipse to his students. There are lot of kids on this ship who are very excited about the eclipse. In few hours from now SPACE will be organising a star party for the passengers who are already rushing to get themselves registered for that. Passengers will be looking at the stars and galaxies through special telescopes from the top deck of the cruise. I am also going for that and will get back with the details soon.
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Rati Chaudhary is a Principal Correspondent at CNN-IBN. After covering Science and Technology for six years she recently moved to the Citizen Journalist show. She likes the show as it helps her meet interesting people and also helps build some good karma. Believe it or not but Rati loves mathematics so much that she even graduated in the subject. A voracious reader and a total gadget freak, Rati can spend hours on a new gadget. If she is not at work, she will either be in the gym or watching a movie. Say ‘shopping’ and you will have her undivided attention.Recent Posts
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