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malaise

(269,026 posts)
Mon Apr 28, 2014, 09:08 AM Apr 2014

Watch the coward captain jump ship and leave those teenagers to drown

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/south-korea-ferry-divers-renew-search-bodies
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Footage of the captain and crew being hauled to safety from the sinking ferry Sewol was released on Monday as South Korean investigators expanded their inquiries into the rescue operation.

In the video clips released by the South Korean coastguard, the captain, wearing only a sweater and underpants, is shown leaping on to a rescue boat from the sinking ferry, which is tilting at about 45 degrees.

Others, who appear to be crew members, slide down from the bridge to the coastguard boat holding ropes. The video also shows about half a dozen people, apparently passengers, wearing lifejackets in the water near the stern of the ship.

According to Kim Kyung-il, a coastguard official, the ship's crew members did not tell rescuers that they were crew and those on the first rescue boat to arrive said the situation was so urgent that they could not check.
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