What happens if I am injuried while I am embarking or debarking from the cruise liner?
The carrier has an obligation to provide a reasonably safe gangway. This includes providing crew members to assist passengers if necessitated by the existing conditions. Cruise ships sometimes call at ports where they cannot tie up to a dock. In this event passengers are transported to and from shore by small boats called tenders. The cruise line under these circumstances has an obligation to provide a reasonably safe means for the passenger to get on and off the vessel. If the cruise line does not perform the tendering service with its own tenders, it owes passengers the duty to use due care in selecting an independent contractor to perform this service.
