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The Design Oasis chooses Chauvet IP65 fixtures for Jamrock Reggae Cruise

As Royal Caribbean’s “Freedom of the Seas” steamed out of port December 7, 2022, for the “Welcome To Jamrock Reggae Cruise”, Nesta Garrick, Abbas Ritscher and the entire team at The Design Oasis were grateful that they would be able to do something they’d never done before: leave all their fixtures unbagged overnight.

“This was the first time we didn’t have to worry about putting bags over our fixtures at the end of a long day”, says Ritscher, who oversaw the installation of the lighting rig on the ship. “That’s a tremendous time saver.”

Ritscher and his team were able to avoid the hassle of wrapping fixtures in plastic bags, because for the first time, since the cruise began in 2012, the entire rig was made up of IP65 rated units, most prominently the Color Strike M, Maverick Storm 2 BeamWash, and Rogue Outcast 1L  Beam from Chauvet Professional.

“‘Welcome To Jamrock’ goes from Miami to Jamacia and is out at sea or in port for five days”, says Ritscher. “Even when the weather is good, you get a lot of moisture in this ocean environment. Having the IP65 rated fixtures is really important.”

The lighting rig for the cruise was designed by Garrick, who also ran the lights for Damian and Stephen Marley, as well as many of the other headliner acts. Kenny Gribbon served as the LD for the other artists.

Garrick and his team used the IP65 rated rig to cook up a variety of dynamic looks on the open-deck stage, with plenty of aerial beams aimed at the ocean sky, back and audience lighting, and some pixel effects. Throughout the five-days of music, the stage was sometimes colored in intense monochromatic palettes, and at others in vivid Rastafarian red, green and gold.

Helping Garrick create his looks were 32 Color Strike M fixtures, which were flown on upstage truss and positioned around the audience area for side lighting. Drawing on the output of the motorized strobe’s tube elements, he was able to cover the entire deck with bright white light at times. During other moments, he relied on pixel effects from the fixture’s face to create colorful visuals.

The eighteen Rogue Outcast 1L Beam units were positioned at low and high levels on the downstage truss as well as on the downstage deck. Garrick used them to create aerial effects from a variety of positions.

The rig’s twelve Maverick Storm 2 BeamWash fixtures were positioned upstage and used as a traditional wash when they weren’t crisscrossing the stage with beams and backlighting performers.

(Photos: Chauvet Professional/The Design Oasis)

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