ORIANA in high speed

Presently on a 17 night western Mediterranean cruise, and to prove our previous post, this image taken from the AIS website LocalizaTodo, shows ORIANA navigating at high speed on her route from Lisbon to Messina(2 days at sea).
She surpassed her service speed of 24 knots and achived some impressive 25,4 knots while transiting the Strait of Gibraltar this morning, even besides the intense traffic in that area, being the only gateway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
On a more uncasual note, captain Mark Symmonds shows why ORIANA helds the Golden Cockerel trophy, as the fastest ship in P&O's present fleet.

ORIANA in western med. waters inbound Messina, April 2010. © Steve Martin