South Korea ferry sinks carrying 459 passengers

Almost 300 people remain unaccounted for after a ferry carrying 459 people capsized and sank off South Korea.

The ferry, carrying mainly school students, was travelling from the port of Incheon, in the north-west, to the southern resort island of Jeju.
A major rescue effort is under way, involving dozens of ships and helicopters. Those brought to safety were taken to a nearby island.
Four people are now said to have died and dozens of others have been hurt.

South Korean officials had earlier said that 368 people had been plucked to safety, but later said there had been a counting error.
They have now revised down the number rescued to 164.

Images showed the ferry listing at a severe angle and then later almost completely submerged, with only a small part of its hull visible. It sank within two hours of sending a distress signal, reports said.
There are fears this could turn out to be South Korea's biggest maritime disaster in almost 20 years, says the BBC's Martin Patience in Seoul.


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only the other day i was babysitting my little cousin and i was like 'are you excited to go to france' and she was like 'no' and i was like 'why?' and she replied 'incase the boat sinks' :(

What seems strange to me is that this happened in daylight, and there were at least some rescue services there - yet so many people are missing. Usually when these things happen it's the middle of the night, or no rescue services were there...

Why wasn't everyone waiting to be rescued?

did you also see the map of the location? seems so close to shore but maybe that's just me and it's actually miles off.

someone on reddit posted this that might answer your question but i still don't really get it, surely they would have had time to go upstairs?

'One survivor spoke to the media. "The ship suddenly started to lean and take on water. It's most likely that a lot of people in the lower decks had been unable to escape. Downstairs were restaurants, shops and entertainment rooms, and those who were there are feared to have failed to escape."'

ugh I hate boats. WHY IS NOTHING SAFE

I doubt every passenger could have fit on the top deck waiting for rescue... have u guys not seen titanic

wasnt the 102nd anniversary of Titanic yesterday or today :O

ive never gone on a large boat anyway hate boats

this is breaking my heart i don't wanna read about it anymore, all those kids on board

here's footage from the rescue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka14Ee9vobc


if it's true that the captain told them to stay still and didn't call for help straight away, and that's the reason so many of them stayed on the lower decks i hope he gets time for it, what an absolute ****


right back to revision, peace guys

So many rescue services but so little people waiting to be rescued - sounds like the whole 'Captain didn't issue order to evacuate immediately' might be true.

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this is breaking my heart i don't wanna read about it anymore, all those kids on board

here's footage from the rescue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka14Ee9vobc


if it's true that the captain told them to stay still and didn't call for help straight away, and that's the reason so many of them stayed on the lower decks i hope he gets time for it, what an absolute ****


right back to revision, peace guys

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Bloody hell at that video!

all those poor people :( this is actually so awful. eurgh that's disgusting if the captain told them to stay where they were

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...7_964x1259.jpg
Rage: South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won (left, in glasses) is shielded by his bodyguards from a bottle of water thrown by an angry relative of passengers on the capsized ferry Sewol. Nearly 300 people remain unaccounted for

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...2_964x1310.jpg
Desperate: A relative of a passenger on board a sunken ferry in South Korea slaps a government official


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...15_964x690.jpg
Agony: A list of survivors is attached to the wall of a gym in Jindo. Terrified parents approach to see if they can find the names of their children


how horrible, they stopped searching at night? like i know theres no light but that's when it's most crucial to go wtf. families getting their own boats and going out, id do the same but then imagine people waiting for rescue and there's a boat there but they're only looking for their family. & srsly imagine going up to that board frantically looking for your relatives name and not seeing it or seeing it but it could be someone with the same name :/

nooooo the last photo noooooooooo why must this happen to children

14 confirmed dead yet no one be else has been rescued? dno if that's people who they are only just confirming or people who were rescued and died after?

keeping up to date on here http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...r-live-3418429

theres a 5 year old girl been rescued but her parents and 6 yr old brother weren't so idk what happened there, she must have been alone if they weren't rescued with her?? :/


o n that lady in 3rd pic found that her son was recused btw @karter; phew

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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...7_964x1259.jpg
Rage: South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won (left, in glasses) is shielded by his bodyguards from a bottle of water thrown by an angry relative of passengers on the capsized ferry Sewol. Nearly 300 people remain unaccounted for

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...2_964x1310.jpg
Desperate: A relative of a passenger on board a sunken ferry in South Korea slaps a government official


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...15_964x690.jpg
Agony: A list of survivors is attached to the wall of a gym in Jindo. Terrified parents approach to see if they can find the names of their children


how horrible, they stopped searching at night? like i know theres no light but that's when it's most crucial to go wtf. families getting their own boats and going out, id do the same but then imagine people waiting for rescue and there's a boat there but they're only looking for their family. & srsly imagine going up to that board frantically looking for your relatives name and not seeing it or seeing it but it could be someone with the same name :/

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quite sickening to see all the cameras pointing at that woman in the last one :/ leave her be :( people don't need to be bombarded with cameras when they're finding out if their friends and family r still alive or not

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14 confirmed dead yet no one be else has been rescued? dno if that's people who they are only just confirming or people who were rescued and died after?

keeping up to date on here http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...r-live-3418429

theres a 5 year old girl been rescued but her parents and 6 yr old brother weren't so idk what happened there, she must have been alone if they weren't rescued with her?? :/


o n that lady in 3rd pic found that her son was recused btw @karter; phew

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people could be alive if there are air pockets in the boat

other than that they can't confirm a death unless they have a body, unless thats what you mean, whats taking so long to pull out bodies?

ok this is hard to describe
they were reporting 179 survivors removed in the first day, after that they haven't pulled anyone else out dead/alive have they? because every report still says 179 have been rescued
2 confirmed dead early on then 9 then 14, so did they pull out 14 dead in the first few hours just couldn't confirm it?

18 confirmed now, unless they're being found in the water

why dont all boats have special rooms with tanks of air so people can survive for weeks
this happens too much

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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...7_964x1259.jpg
Rage: South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won (left, in glasses) is shielded by his bodyguards from a bottle of water thrown by an angry relative of passengers on the capsized ferry Sewol. Nearly 300 people remain unaccounted for

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...2_964x1310.jpg
Desperate: A relative of a passenger on board a sunken ferry in South Korea slaps a government official


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...15_964x690.jpg
Agony: A list of survivors is attached to the wall of a gym in Jindo. Terrified parents approach to see if they can find the names of their children


how horrible, they stopped searching at night? like i know theres no light but that's when it's most crucial to go wtf. families getting their own boats and going out, id do the same but then imagine people waiting for rescue and there's a boat there but they're only looking for their family. & srsly imagine going up to that board frantically looking for your relatives name and not seeing it or seeing it but it could be someone with the same name :/

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Have you ever tried looking for items in the ocean at night time? It's not an easy task and the temperatures and current weather hasn't been helping them.

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why dont all boats have special rooms with tanks of air so people can survive for weeks
this happens too much

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Money and I don't even know if that would help realistically.

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why dont all boats have special rooms with tanks of air so people can survive for weeks

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You'd have to effectively build a submarine inside every ship. Not exactly cheap, practical or even all that helpful 99% of the time.

Such a sad story :(

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all those poor people :( this is actually so awful. eurgh that's disgusting if the captain told them to stay where they were

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Obviously no-one yet knows what really happened but the captain maybe thought the ship would stabilise. If the ship really did tilt as quickly as reports are suggesting then it would have been pretty impossible to use the life boats etc. and with the water being so cold and the currents being so strong, people would probably have died of hypothermia had they jumped in the sea. He probably feared the chaos that would ensue had he told them to evacuate straight away

some people jumped into sea as it was going down and some that jumped got rescued idk about them all, there's not much detail
i think they only used 1 out of 47 of the lifeboats on the ferry
& the captain is under fire cause he told them to stay on the ferry then he was one of the first to go out and get rescued, captains are supposed to wait until everyone is off before they go apparently.. but he's a 68 year old man or somethin what else was he to do

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some people jumped into sea as it was going down and some got rescued idk about them all
i think they only used 1 out of 47 of the lifeboats on the ferry
& the captain is under fire cause he told them to stay alone then he was one of he first to get rescued, captains are supposed to wait until everyone is off apparentyl.. but he's a 68 year old man or somethin what else was he to do

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yeah its something like 29 of the 30 crew members survived yet over half of the passengers are still to be found :(

its too early to speculate imo, probably if he'd called for evacuation immediately then more people would have survived but really he was in a tough situation, you'd be inclined to wait to see if it stabilises than to tell everyone to escape ASAP which would have caused absolute chaos. Perhaps that is what he was doing, but then the ship sank unexpectedly quickly which is what doomed everyone... then again it was a ship which carried cars and no doubt you can expect them to sink faster than just passenger ships..

dunno really, need to wait to see. Hopefully more people are rescued but its looking unlikely now

This is depressing. I heard this on the radio this morning coming to work. They said a lot of them were teenagers

28 confirmed dead, think it's bodies pulled from the sea which answers my previous question
n i hope this ain't true :
10:10 am
Vice principal Kang is understood to have been rescued from the sinking ferry, which was carrying 325 high school students and 15 teachers from his Seoul school.


Many of those students are among the 270 still missing.


Yonhap News reports the teacher was found hanging near a gym on the island of Jindo


10:03 am
News of further tragedy reaching us via South Korean news agency Yonhap News this morning - the vice principal of the high school whose students are missing in the ferry disaster has been found dead in an apparent suicide.


The teacher from Danwon High School has been identified only by his las name, Kang, and was said to be 52.


He was found dead on the island of Jindo, where parents of the missing students are waiting for news.






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omg @ the suicide tho

god i hate when these things happen to kids

oh god, I can only image what that Vice Principal is going through. That would be horrible :(

It's so tragic that it's mostly school kids too. RIP

Its such a horrible thing to happen and to so many people :(

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that's terrible to think he probably died blaming himself if the trip was his idea or that he was responsible in some way/guilt ridden about surviving :(

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he's dead

oh what, i didn't see that part. Suicide whaatt. that's so sad

He hanged himself from a tree :(

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that's terrible to think he probably died blaming himself if the trip was his idea or that he was responsible in some way/guilt ridden about surviving :(

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Possibly parents of the school children blaming him too, that's so sad though :(.

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Arrest warrant sought for captain of South Korea ferry that capsized killing 28 - with 268 still missing

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UGH this is so horrible :(

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The South Korean coastguard say they have now recovered the bodies of 58 people who died on the sinking ferry.

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yea they finally got into the ferry but probs gonna take months to recover bodies
ifvonly they got in sooner :'(
readin it in detail is so horrible like literally falling on top of each other like dominos when it first started tilting.
but also some stories to restore ur faith inhumanity with survivors telling how they were saved by others

Imgur is relatively informative sometimes;

http://i.imgur.com/5aMeklP.jpg

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Park Ji-young, 22, female cafeteria worker, died helping evacuate passengers from Korean Ferry Sewol. The top ten ranking crew were first to board the rescue ship. Students asked why she didn't leave with them and she said after all the passengers were safe. She was an only daughter.

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This whole situation is so tragic :'(