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Originally Posted by CAnderson
What I find fascinating is that Constellation has never had thrust bearing failures that have the other ships have had, and as I recall, Alstom swears the same bearings that were refitted to Constellation before it went into active service are the same ones being used in the other 3 ships. Go figure. It's no surprise that Celebrity/RCCL went elsewhere for their new builds... heck, they're still trying to recover all of their losses from Alstom and Rolls.
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We've had this discussion somewhere before. 
I do remember reading that some improvement of some kind was made to the pod system on Connie before it entered service. I have no idea what that might have been and as Chris stated, it doesn't seem like any body else knows for sure.
I guess a possible answer would involve the speeds required for various itineraries.
Maybe the Connie has operated on itineraries that don't require higher operating speeds and thereby the mechanism that has failed is not subjected to the stresses involved in higher operating speeds.
Another possibility would be the water temperature inherant as the ships sail on certain itineraries, or the range of temperature variance.
I know I'm fishing here and would imagine that these and many other factors have been looked at to explain the lack of problems with the Connie's pod system.
Another possibility is that the Connie is past due to have a major problem the longer it goes without having a problem. 
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