South Korean Ferry Mishap

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Ferry didn't take hard turn before sinking: South Korean officials

  South Korean officials say their earlier conclusion that the sunken ferry had made a sharp turn shortly before the disaster was incorrect, and that the vessel changed course much more gradually.

• South Korea ferry mishap: death toll increases as more bodies pulled out

  Divers began retrieving bodies on Sunday from inside the submerged South Korean ferry that capsized four days ago with hundreds of children on board, as families angered by the pace of the rescue efforts scuffled with police.

• Arrested captain of South Korean ferry says evacuation was delayed for safety

  The arrested captain of the South Korean ferry that capsized with 476 people on board said on Saturday he had delayed evacuating the ship because of the sea conditions and the absence of rescue ships.

• Ferry mishap: 'Surviving alone is too painful', said South Korean vice-principal's 'suicide' note

  A high school vice-principal rescued from a sinking South Korean ferry that sank with hundreds of his students on board was found dead on Friday, police said, in an apparent suicide.