'[52] Chonghaejin's budget for the safety training of the crew was US$2, which was used to buy a paper certificate. to determine the identity of those remains. [298] A Chinese consortium, Shanghai Salvage Company, was contracted by the South Korean government to carry out the salvage operation. [220], The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries revoked Chonghaejin Marine's license to operate ferries on the Incheon-Jeju Island route in May 2014. [219] Four other company officials were also taken into custody. [170] According to CNN and its affiliate YTN, six people died. At this point, 196 personnel, including 82 in the SSU and 114 in the ROK Naval Special Warfare Flotilla were involved in the operations. At 12:00 noon on 16 April, only 50 centimetres (20 in) of the bulbous bow was above water; at 1:03 p.m., the ship was completely submerged. [149] The Navy also established a military control tower on a Dokdo-class amphibious assault ship. 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[173] Over the course of the following months, the death toll rose into the hundreds. [29]:34[49] Only 761.2 tons of ballast were taken on board, the ballast tanks had not been properly maintained, and the previous voyage was made without making further adjustments to the ballast during the journey. What about the lives of our children? [2] Im Januar 2016 galten noch immer 9 Menschen als vermisst. [109] As passengers stayed in their cabins as instructed, Captain Lee and his crew abandoned the ship. [159] An Undine Marine diver died on 6 May,[160][161] followed by another diver's death on 30 May. [163][164], The government announced on 22 April 2015 that it had approved plans to salvage the wreckage of Sewol in hopes of finding more information about the sinking and recovering the bodies of the nine victims still missing. Lee then replied that there were too many passengers for the helicopter. He was previously due to serve a 36 year sentence but this decision was overturned as the captain was given a harsher sentence after an appeal's court found him guilty of murder. Hide Caption 39 of 55 [238], Following appeals by prosecutors and the accused, on 28 April 2015 Captain Lee was found guilty of murder and his sentence increased to life imprisonment, while those for 14 other crew members were reduced to a maximum of 12 years, including 10 years for chief engineer Park Gi-ho, whose murder conviction was overturned. [144] At 12:30 a.m., hull investigations were started by the ROK Coast Guard with the help of flares. Nov 11, 2014, 12:29 PM IST 세월호) war ein RoPax-Fährschiff, das am 16. [196] South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo argued that the discharging of ballast water was a cause of the incident. The ferry captain was found guilty of homicide in 2015 and sent to prison for life. "[237], In the cases against officials over the overloading of cargo, Kim Han-sik, Chonghaejin Marine's chief executive, was found guilty of negligence and received a ten-year prison term. Cho's testimony did not notably differ from that of Park. [186] The existence of the sudden turn has been confirmed by the analysis of the ship's AIS data. [64], Right before the incident, Park and Cho were standing side by side near the ship's wheel at the bridge. [244][245] In 2016, the full extent of Choi's ties to Park emerged in South Korean media, which caused a corruption scandal that ultimately resulted in Park's impeachment by the National Assembly on 9 December 2016. "[76], As Cho sharply turned the wheel from 135 to 150 degrees, Sewol began to list to port and tilt towards the water. [263], Barack Obama, then President of the United States, sent his condolences, stated that the United States would help in the search for survivors, and during a state visit to South Korea presented a magnolia tree from the White House to the high school. [84] During this time, Park was crying, as she was taken aback by the sudden incident; this lasted until at least 9:06 a.m.[78][85] With the engines off, Sewol became unable to change directions and began drifting sideways. [271], On 27 April, Jung Hong-won, the prime minister of South Korea, accepted responsibility and announced his resignation. The Korea Coast Guard set up a rescue operations headquarters at 9:10 a.m.[129], Patrol Vessel No. [126] Conspiracy theories were also present in the aftermath of the sinking. [253] The disaster is also subject of another documentary in 2016, After the Sewol. "[284], On 22 April, a netizen made a post encouraging others to take part in a yellow ribbon campaign on KakaoTalk. [102], At 9:23 a.m., the VTS ordered the crew to inform the passengers to wear life jackets. [92] At 8:52 a.m., he called the national emergency service number and reported to the Jeollanam-do fire station that Sewol was capsizing. Because the ship did not stop its rightward turning, it was eventually facing a 145-degree course. [189] Experts such as Lee Sang-yun, a professor and head of the environment/maritime technology institute of the Pukyong National University, also agreed.[190]. [268] Xi Jinping, the President of China, sent messages on condolences to Park. 245 victims of them were teenagers. [200][201] This possible cause has also been supported by the captain,[202] as well as Lee Sang-yun. When Lee inquired about the rescue, the VTS replied that patrol boats were due to arrive in ten minutes and a helicopter in one minute. Three minutes later, the Jeju Coast Guard called the Mokpo Coast Guard and discovered that a patrol boat had already been dispatched. [136], At 2:42 p.m., 150 special forces personnel from the ROK Army Special Warfare Command, including 40 scuba divers, were sent for the operation. Lee Joon-Seok, the captain of the Sewol ferry, plus two navigators and a chief engineer could receive the death sentence if convicted, although that penalty is very unlikely to be carried out. Shipping is regulated by the Korean Shipping Association, which is also an industry trade group, which experts consider a likely conflict of interest. [115] Some passengers who climbed to the top of the ship or jumped into the water were rescued. The ROK Army sent units including 150 Special Warfare Command soldiers and eleven ambulances. The court concluded that Cho, who was flustered by the ship turning faster than expected when he was following Park's order to turn to 145 degrees, was attempting to turn to the left when he took Park's order to mean a turn in the opposite direction. Ferry Sewol’s captain Lee Joon-seok, 69, was found guilty of gross negligence and received a 36-year sentence in prison, but he was acquitted of murder in the trial that spanned five months. [111] The captain was rescued around 9:46 a.m.[112][113], As the ship capsized, some passengers followed the announcements to stay put, even as the water came in. [37], On 15 April 2014, Sewol was scheduled to leave the port at Incheon at 6:30 p.m., KST. [116], Videos recording passengers during the capsizing have been recovered. On April 16, 2014 the Korean-flagged passenger ferry M/V SEWOL sank resulting in a large loss of life of the passengers. The VTS retracted the warning around 8:35 p.m., and the Shipping Association removed the restriction on Sewol's departure after checking the weather conditions with the operator of the Palmido lighthouse and consulting with the Korean Coast Guard. Criticism has ranged from anger at the lax regulatory environment which may have contributed to the safety violations that could have sunk Sewol,[257] to anger about the rescue operations,[258] to anger at Park Geun-hye, then President of South Korea, whose approval ratings fell from a high of 71 percent before the disaster to "the 40 percent range" weeks afterwards. [199], Renovations which added extra passenger cabins have been proposed as a main secondary cause by Kim Gill-soo (김길수), a professor in the maritime transport technological department at the Korea Maritime University. Of the approximately 17… [96] Around this time, the crew began communicating with the Jindo VTS, which was closer to their location. [260] Many parents of the victims of the tragedy have been expressing deep anger at the government, ranging from reportedly berating Prime Minister Jung Hong-won[261] to shouting at President Park Geun-hye,[262] to parents staging protests at the presidential palace itself, partly inflamed by a reported remark by a senior news editor at the government-influenced Korean Broadcasting System that the number of dead in the ferry tragedy was "not many, compared with the number of people killed in traffic accidents each year". [26], Three crew members, Park Ji-young, Jeong Hyun-seon, and Kim Ki-woong, are credited by survivors with staying aboard the ferry to help passengers escape. [198][215][216][217] The other eleven crew members face lesser charges of abandoning the ship and ship safety offences. This scenario was confirmed by simulations separately run by the expert advisory panel on the joint investigation team, the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering, and the Advanced Marine Engineering Center of Seoul National University. [134] At the same time, the Ministry of Health and Welfare sent emergency vehicles and the first squad of the Disaster Medical Support Team (재난의료지원팀) to Jindo. [citation needed] The ship was then towed and loaded onto a semi-submersible vessel, Dockwise White Marlin. [218], On 8 May, the chief executive of Chonghaejin Marine, Kim Han-sik, was arrested and faced charges including causing death by negligence. This is the story of MV Sewol… Despite the ship's maximum allowance for 987 tons of cargo, Sewol was carrying 2,142.7 tons of cargo which had been improperly secured. [91] Other crew members corroborated this order, instructing passengers to stay put. 123 failed to raise Sewol, and chose to call for other ships on the radio. 123 began rescue operations at 9:38 a.m., with the dispatching of a rubber boat. They (the defendants) deserve worse than death. [69], According to the joint investigation team, the sharp turn was a combined result produced by the steering error and the lessened restoring force caused by overloading; investigations did not show any malfunctions with the generator or the battery. [26] An arrest warrant was also issued for Yoo Byung-eun, the owner of Chonghaejin Marine, which operated Sewol, but he could not be found despite a nationwide manhunt. [29]:40, As Sewol approached the fatal turn, breakfast was being served in the cafeteria. The jailed former captain of the sunken Sewol ferry does not want to talk about the tragedy, a prison official says. The sinking of MV Sewol (Korean: 세월호 침몰 사고; Hanja: 世越號沈沒事故),[16] also called the Sewol ferry disaster, occurred on the morning of 16 April 2014, when the ferry was en route from Incheon towards Jeju in South Korea. [102] At 9:25 a.m., the VTS asked Captain Lee to decide quickly whether to evacuate the ship, stating that they did not have enough information to make the decision. [213][214], On 15 May, Captain Lee, First Mate Kang Won-sik (who was responsible for managing the ship's ballast), Second Mate Kim Young-ho, and Chief Engineer Park Gi-ho were indicted on charges of homicide through gross negligence (also described as murder), which carry a potential death penalty. [155] The divers' entrance was later labeled a 'failure' by the Central Disaster Countermeasure Headquarters. [98][99] At 8:56 a.m., the Jeju VTS called the Jeju Coast Guard. [29]:40 Immediately after giving the order, she heard Cho exclaim "The wheel isn't working" in a flustered voice, after which the ship started listing. The sinking of MV Sewol (Korean: 세월호 침몰 사고; Hanja: 世越號沈沒事故), also called the Sewol ferry disaster, occurred on the morning of 16 April 2014, when the ferry was en route from Incheon towards Jeju in South Korea. [156] On 19 April, a Navy petty officer who was injured during rescue operations died. [29]:36–37 The regular captain of Sewol, Captain Shin, had warned Chonghaejin about the decrease in stability and attributed it to the removal of the side ramp, later claiming that the company threatened to fire him if he continued his objections. [158] On 24 April, the CR200 'Crabster' robot was sent to the rescue site. 212 ] by 26 April, North Korea sent its condolences who climbed to scene! 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