Ferry Mishap

• Can South Korea Conduct Fair Trial of Ferry Crew?

  The defendants are surrounded by hostility in South Korea, all the way up to President Park Geun-hye, who has called the crew's actions murderous.

• South Korea Indicts Four Capsized Ferry Crew Members For Homicide

  The captain and three senior crew members of a South Korean ferry that capsized in April killing more than 280 passengers, many of them school children, were indicted for homicide on Thursday, a senior prosecutor said.

• South Korean Ferry Mishap Toll Rises to 273

  The toll rose to 273 Friday in one of South Korea's deadliest maritime disasters as divers searched the sunken Sewol ferry amid slower tidal currents.

• Diary Reveals Harrowing Search for Korea Ferry Bodies

  'What have we done to these children? Sorry, Sorry, Sorry,' reads an entry.

• South Korea Ferry Was Routinely Overloaded

  The doomed ferry Sewol exceeded its cargo limit on 246 trips - nearly every voyage it made in which it reported cargo - in the 13 months before it sank, according to documents that reveal the regulatory failures that allowed passengers by the hundreds to set off on an unsafe vessel.

• South Korean Divers Struggle to Open Blocked Ferry Cabins

  Some victims of the ferry disaster may never be found.

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  Divers battle darkness and fear to find bodies trapped in ferry

  Divers grope their way slowly through the dark corridors and cabins of the sunken Sewol ferry. Bodies appear suddenly, floating by in the murky water, buoyed by life-jackets or the bloat of decomposition, their faces etched with fear or shock.

• Toll in South Korean ferry mishap reaches 171: report

  The toll from a South Korean ferry that capsized and sank last week rose to 171 on Thursday but the recovery of bodies from the sunken ship proceeded at a slower pace

• Classes begin at South Korea school full of mourning

  Students in the city hit hardest by the South Korean ferry disaster returned to classes Thursday, their school campus a tragic landscape of yellow ribbons, chrysanthemums and photos of classmates and teachers who make up the vast majority of the more than 300 people feared dead.

• Korean prosecutors raid shipping safety watchdogs after ferry disaster

  South Korean prosecutors said on Thursday that they had raided shipping safety watchdogs as part of expanded investigations following the sinking of a ferry last week in which more than 300 people were killed or missing presumed dead.

• South Korean ferry turned further than third mate ordered: maritime professor

  A maritime professor who spoke with the third mate who was steering the South Korean ferry before it sank says he suspects a problem with the steering gear caused the sinking.

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  Children's bodies in ferry reveal desperate attempts to escape

  South Korean divers swam though dark, cold waters into a sunken ferry on Wednesday, feeling for children's bodies with their hands in a maze of cabins, corridors and upturned decks as they searched for hundreds of missing.

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  Acts of bravery emerge from pilloried ship crew

  As the ferry sank, some crew members gave their lifejackets to passengers. One refused to leave until she shepherded students off the ship, and was later found dead. Others worked from rescue boats to break windows with hammers and pull people trapped in cabins to safety.

• First sign of South Korean ferry disaster was call from a frightened boy

  The first distress call from a sinking South Korean ferry was made by a boy with a shaking voice, three minutes after the vessel made its fateful last turn.

• "No response" as Korea ferry crew asked for orders to abandon ship

  The crew of a South Korean ferry that sank with hundreds of people on board repeatedly asked officers on the bridge whether or not to give the order to abandon ship, but there was no response, a crew member has said.