Panic on the bridge and the ship's hull as a trap: The tragic sinking of the "Sewol"

hope fades. With each passing day, every hour, every minute.

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hope fades. With each passing day, every hour, every minute.

The noise from the hull are long since been silenced. The Savior involve only dead bodies from the sunken shipwreck.

104, it was on April 21.

The drama surrounding the lower ferry “Sewol” shocked South Korea.

Five days after the accident is the last hope of still survivors among the yet to find 198 missing, broke.

The Ferry with 476 people on board capsized and sank on April 16.

What exactly happened is still unclear.

Fact: At the port of Incheon on the northwest coast of South Korea, there is thick fog. The Sewol running late from.

Among the 476 passengers on board are 324 students and 15 teachers of Danwon School. In the early morning hours of 16 April, the ship reduces suddenly after left. Passengers report that there had been a loud bang and then screeching noise. An hour later applies the “Sewol” sharp. It is still unclear why. Experts suggest that the sharp bend the charge – including more than 150 cars – slipped and brought the ship to capsize

The Department dispatches a distress signal.. At this time, the ferry is a 5-degree angle in the water.

around half past nine reach first Coast Guard vessels and helicopters that ferry disaster. Meanwhile, the ship is already 60 degrees tilted in the water. It is believed that the captain, the 68-year-old Lee Jun Seok, only now ordering the evacuation. Reports

Several survivors later that they had not heard any calls for evacuation. On the contrary, they were asked not to move.

This also sets the recorded radio traffic between Ferry and Port Authority close. Consequently, there is unfortunately time on the bridge, the pure panic. The records show that the crew was reluctant to evacuate the ship, as dangerously inclined to this page. About an Half an hour after the ferry had come in an inclined position, shares a crew member of the harbor Jindo with that it would be impossible to give the passengers instructions over the public address system.

The representative of the shipping control reciprocated, yet they should passengers instruct to put on their life jackets and as many layers of clothing. “Will the passengers be rescued immediately after the evacuation?”, Then asks the crew member. “Let them carry at least one rescue ring and let it swim. Now!” The representative urges again.

Then he addresses the question of the “Sewol” has it but obviously not properly understood “The captain should make the decision themselves and evacuate We know the situation is not good enough The captain should make the final decision and decide whether to evacuate the passengers or not…”

“The’ve I never asked, “answers the” Sewol “. “I asked: If they are now evacuated, they can be rescued in time” The question is legitimate, because in the area there are strong currents.

9.45 clock counter the first passengers to be rescued by helicopter. The ferry turns on and on, slipping deeper and deeper.

At about 10:30 clock towers, only the front end of the head opposite the vessel out of the water.

rescue workers assume that the missing persons were trapped inside the ship and came out no more time .

With nightfall, the vision deteriorated. The search for survivors continues with floodlights. 164 people rescued at this time. 250 are still missing. For the members who in a gym are located on the island of Jindo vanishes hourly hope of rescue.

On Friday evening, announce that the “Sewol” was controlled for evil time point but not the master, but of a less experienced officer. The 26-year-old will have the difficult route, which is known for its strong currents and leads you past a chain of many small islands, traveled for the first time.

Lee is accused left the sinking ship in the lurch have to. Survivors later, the captain and many crew members left the ship first. the suspicion that he had been drinking, Lee rejects. The captain, the officer as well as a Another crew member be arrested.

At this time, a long time nothing more to be seen from the ferry.

Several floating cranes are brought to the crash site to erect the 6800-ton ferry again.

But heavy seas hampered the maneuver.

On Saturday, divers try to penetrate into the interior of the ferry. For the first time corpses sighted in the sunken wreck.

This can not because of the strong currents but to be rescued from the cab. Among the persevering in Jindo relatives of the missing growing despair and anger. The slow pace of recovery and the frequently changing information gnaw at her nerves. It even comes to a clash with the police. As about 100 members want to leave the resort island by a bridge to protest in the capital, Seoul

From Saturday night, they are forced by police to repentance. Till Sunday evening more than a dozen deaths are pulled from the sunken ship .

In addition to hundreds of divers are now also remote-controlled underwater drones deployed to scour the interior of the wreck.

According to experts, the views are, however minimal, that passengers in the face of dwindling oxygen could in a bubble survive several days.

hope has long since turned into mourning.

Until Monday about 240 passengers still listed as missing. Most of them are students.

For them, however, there is no hope. Many relatives and parents are now gone to the port of Jindo since the salvage now progressing very quickly. They want certainty about the fate of their missing children.

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Panic on the bridge and the ship's hull as a trap: The tragic sinking of the "Sewol"