S Korea ferry: Bad weather hampers search for survivors - BBC
From the article:
Some of the passengers managed to jump into the ocean, wearing life jackets, and swim to nearby rescue boats and commercial vessels.
But several survivors have said that they were told by crew members not to move.
"We must have waited 30 to 40 minutes after the crew told us to stay put," one unnamed rescued student was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
"Then everything tilted over and everyone started screaming and scrambling to get out," he said.
Koo Bon-hee, 36, told the Associated Press that the rescue was not "done well". "If people had jumped into the water... they could have been rescued. But we were told not to go out."
This is like when they told people in the twin towers to stay put. Honestly, if I'm ever in a disaster the last thing I'll do is rely on authorities.
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17 Apr 2014, 9:14 am
