South Korea ferry sinks carrying 459 passengers

[Matthew]

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

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

[Brad]

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

[buttons]

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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[karter]

omg @ the suicide tho

god i hate when these things happen to kids

[Matt]

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

[IzzyUhh]

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

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[wixard]

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

[karter]

oh god, I can only image what that Vice Principal is going through.

he's dead

[Matt]

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

[Eric]

He hanged himself from a tree