There's the story of a guy that was found alive in an overturned ship that sunk to the bottom IIRC.The one thing I find hard to believe is that they're saying the hundreds of missing might still be alive in air pockets? It's been a couple of days now in 50 degree waters. If anyone was alive, I don't think they're are anymore. So whatever the missing headcount is now... I'm more inclined to believe they've all drowned. :\
There's the story of a guy that was found alive in an overturned ship that sunk to the bottom IIRC.
That was in the Indian Ocean or some other very warm, tropical place. And the guy was the cook, a crew member who knew something about ships.
These were a bunch of mostly high school students who were probably great at being told what to do... like staying put while the captain saved his own ass.
Wow, you're a dick in these types of threads too?
So easy to criticize the captain from our safe, dry, comfy chairs. Here comes the water, you are as good as dead, what do you do? If panic is your answer I wouldn't blame you, but clearly people are quick to blame the captain.
He handled it as poorly and selfishly as he could have (if reports are true) but I can say I understand. I don't see him as a bad person for this. He reacted out of fear and events, including his own behavior, were at that point well out of his control.
Isn't it illegal for the captain to abandon ship before anyone else?
Prosecutors in South Korea filed for arrest warrants on Friday for the ships captain, the third mate and another crew member on criminal charges of deserting their ship and passengers after a ferry capsized and possibly trapped hundreds of people, many of them high school students on a trip to a resort island.
Vice-principal of South Korea school in ferry disaster commits suicide
(Reuters) - The vice-principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds of pupils on a ferry that capsized has committed suicide, police said on Friday, as hopes faded of finding any of the 268 missing alive.
The Sewol, carrying 475 passengers and crew, capsized on Wednesday on a journey from the port of Incheon to the southern holiday island of Jeju.
Kang Min-gyu, 52, had been missing since Thursday. He appeared to have hanged himself with his belt from a tree outside a gym in the port city of Jindo where relatives of the people missing on the ship, mostly children from the school, were gathered.
Police said Kang did not leave a suicide note and that they started looking for him after he was reported missing by a fellow teacher. He was rescued from the ferry after it capsized.
it sounds like Schettino's korean cousin was the captain.
I guess most of the missing persons are dead but who knows if a few are still alive.
Isn't it illegal for the captain to abandon ship before anyone else?
I think it's ridiculous these trapped kids didn't get as much international help as the Malaysian jet. Surely someone had the means to get those kids out of there quickly.
Jesus. Talk about guilt.
the currents are too strong to send down the divers, there already are cranes there to raise the ship a bit.I think it's ridiculous these trapped kids didn't get as much international help as the Malaysian jet. Surely someone had the means to get those kids out of there quickly.
Jesus. Talk about guilt.
The vice president of Danwon High School, who was rescued from the sunken ferry Sewol along with some students, was found dead in an apparent suicide Friday.
Police said officers found the dead body of the senior teacher, surnamed Kang, 52, hanging from a tree on a hill near a gymnasium on Jindo Island where family members were waiting for news of missing students.
A hand-written suicide note was found in his wallet.
I cant live on without knowing whether my students are alive or not. Please let me take all the responsibility as I pressed ahead with the field trip. Burn my body and scatter it on the site of the sinking, it read.
Police learnt he was missing after he returned from questioning by the Coast Guard at around 9 p.m., Thursday.
He reportedly tried to apologize to parents and family members of the missing students with his fellow teachers, but this was rejected.
Kang accompanied the students as head teacher on the four-day trip to Jeju Island. Despite surviving the accident he reportedly told teachers that he felt responsible for not saving the other students.
He was appointed to the school about a month ago.
I think it's ridiculous these trapped kids didn't get as much international help as the Malaysian jet. Surely someone had the means to get those kids out of there quickly.