South Korean Ferry Accident

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  Salvage Experts Start Survey of Sunken South Korean Ferry

  Chinese and South Korean salvage experts on Wednesday began an underwater survey of the sunken Sewol ferry -- the first step in the long, complex process of raising the 6,825-tonne vessel to the surface.

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  Appeals Court Convicts South Korea Ferry Captain of Murder

  A South Korean appeals court on Tuesday found the captain of the Sewol ferry that sank a year ago guilty of murder and upped his sentence to life imprisonment, a court official said.

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  South Korea to Pay About $380,000 for Each Student Killed in Ferry Disaster

  The South Korean government said today it would pay about 420 million won ($380,000) compensation for each of the 250 students who died or remain missing from last year's ferry disaster, in the first settlement offer to victims' families.

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  South Korea Ferry Captain 'Murdered' Passengers

  The captain of the Sewol ferry, which sank in April with the loss of 304 lives, murdered his passengers by intentionally abandoning them to their certain deaths, a South Korean appeals court heard on Tuesday.

• Owner of Sunken Korean Ferry Blamed for Five Earlier Crashes

  In the same narrow waterways where more than 300 people died this spring aboard the ferry Sewol, another ship owned by the same company crashed into an oil tanker 11 years earlier. The ferry's captain had chosen the difficult water path to cut a mere seven miles from its journey.

• Body Found in South Korean Ferry as Weather Eases

  Divers found another body trapped in a sunken South Korean ferry Tuesday as the search for more than two dozen missing passengers resumed after strong winds and waves halted the effort for three days.

• Divers Retrieve More Bodies in South Korea Ferry Disaster

  Divers have retrieved two more bodies from the wreck of the South Korean ferry that sank last month, as conditions on the ship further deteriorated, officials said Saturday.

• We mismatched bodies from ferry disaster: South Korea

  As visiting President Barack Obama offered South Koreans his condolences on Friday for the ferry disaster, the South Korean government conceded that some bodies have been misidentified and announced changes to prevent such mistakes from happening again.

• 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.

• Captain who left doomed ferry had 40 years at sea

  A colleague calls Capt. Lee Joon-seok the nicest person on the ship. With more than 40 years' experience at sea, Lee could speak with eloquence about the romance and danger of a life spent on ships.

• 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.

• 'It's difficult for the passengers to move,' said crew of South Korean ferry

  Here is the dramatic, confused exchange between a sinking South Korean ferry and maritime traffic control on the southern honeymoon island of Jeju after the vessel started to list at 8.49 a.m. last Wednesday (2349 GMT Tuesday).

• Four more of crew detained over South Korea ferry disaster

  South Korean prosecutors on Monday detained four more crew members in a widening investigation into a ferry disaster that left hundreds missing, presumed dead, local media reported.

• More bodies from ship; transcript reveals confusion

  Divers continued the grim work of recovering bodies from inside a sunken South Korean ferry Monday, securing a new entryway into the wreck, as a newly released transcript showed the ship was crippled by confusion and indecision well after it began listing.