14/04/2016, A grandmother was crushed to death during a cruise on the Queen Elzabeth

as she was stepping from the tender on to the liner's floating boarding platform, in Cambodia, on a Cunard world cruise in April 2015. The tender is a boat used to ferry the passengers on and off the big ship in ports, where the big ship cannot dock,because the water is too shallow. I was not present when Mrs Atherton had died.I do not know who was at fault. What I do know is, that any person, who is disabled,old,or infirm,should never use a tender.Any-one belonging to this category will take umbrage with me,I know. But having been on so many ships and tenders,I can clearly see what is right and what is wrong. If you cannot get on the ship and off the ship by yourself, and if you do not have your own family and carers to help you, you have no business to be cruising. The staff are expected to lift,and push and even carry passengers sitting in wheelchairs! Yes, carry the wheelchairs with grossly overweight men and women sitting in them,who are not ill,just so fat from overeating,that their legs cannot carry the weight. Often I look in disbelief what the employees are expected to do. On Ventura four men had to push up the steps, yes, UP THE STEPS an elephant of a woman, weighing a ton. And not even a word of thanks,just moans and groans and orders from her and her husband. Her plate always overflowing with the fattest food,she was wheeled around the ship like a barrel of lard. Why should any-one have to carry this greedy person, when she cannot carry herself?