Your tender is your lifeboat

Surprisingly, there are only 13 or 14 lifeboats on each ship but, they each hold 200 people. I'm not sure I would like to be stranded on one of these for any length of time however, they lower two or more to take passengers to shore when no docking is available. On this cruise we tendered to Cozumel because the docks were destroyed. Here in Panama, we tendered because we will go on a shore excursion and meet up with the ship after it returns through the locks (We did not go all the way through) Grand Cayman also has no large docking facilities so we needed a tender here too. At least we know some of the lifeboats work.