abandoning his ship and neglecting his passengers among other crimes. south korea s president is not waiting for a trial. she s calling his actions, quote, akin to murder. for its part, the ferry s owner has put out a statement that no corporate lawyer in america could possibly approve. and here it is. in english. quote, we prostate ourselves before the victim s families and beg for forgiveness. will say that several type timy mention accident and do say they re sorry. paul, i ll begin with you. first thing s first. most people would say if you re an attorney representing this ferry come, don t say you re sorry, not so soon, that could be big trouble down the road. unless you re from south korea. there s a culture that requires apology and the teachers, by the way, i don t know if you saw the piece about the teachers on the boat who survived appeared in
that submerged vessel. south korea s president says the failures of the captain and crew to protect lives is, quote, akin to murder. indictments come as four more crew members are arrested making for a total of seven crew members now charged. last hour on cnn s new day we heard from a cargo ship captain who serves as a mayor time safety consultant and. let s take a listen to what he says. captain, at what point when you re clearly in an emergency situation like this should it be suggested to put your lifejackets on and get ready to abandon ship? in initially when the ship was at ten degrees, if she didn t come back to up right just at ten degrees. at ten degrees they should be very concerned why she wasn t coming back. when she continued to go on, it should have been given immediately to launch the life rafts. the concern from the captain is
being found at this point, we understand from officials it is still a search and rescue operation. they said they haven t found air pockets yet but there s a possibility there may be because the ship hasn t completely sunk. this morning the investigation into what went wrong is ramping up. four additional crew members arrested overnight as the country s president blasts the ship s captain directly calling his actions, quote, akin to murder. he is now charged with negligence, though he was not at the helm his third officer was. prosecutors still accuse him of failing to slow the ship down, causing the ship to make an excessive turn. newly released calls between an unidentify crew member and boat traffic control shed new light on exactly what happened. our ship is in danger he says. the ship is rolling right now. by that time the ship had already tilted too far for the majority of passengers to move or to deploy life boats. five minutes later boat traffic control urged the unidentified c
south korea s president calling the actions of the sunken ferry captain and crew, quote, akin to murder. south korea s coast guard saying two more female bodies have been recovered from the sunken ferry, raising the confirmed dead to 64. but that still leaves 238 missing, and most of them are high school students. even though no survivors have been found since the ship capsized and sank on wednesday, searchers are not giving up. more than 500 divers continue to plunge into the frigid dark waters of the yellow sea and more than 34 aircrafts and 200 ships are helping with the difficult search. now, each time that searchers bring a body of one of the ferry victims on shore, families must identify their loved ones. and with many of the dead so young, the effort is taking its toll on everyone. even veteran emergency workers. we have the latest from jindo, south korea.
an unmanned sub is scanning the ocean floor again today, but is it even looking in the right place? as we find out more about the plane s trip off course. we are live in australia and malaysia tracking the search. good morning and welcome to early start. i m alison kosik. i m victor blackwell. it is good to be with you this monday morning. good morning. it is april 21st, 4:00 a.m. in the east. and we re beginning this morning with the search for more than 200 missing passengers from that south korean ferry disaster. the actions of the captain and crew described as akin to murder by south korea s president, with four more crew members arrested this morning. we re also getting new information about the chaos that unfolded in the moments before the vessel capsized and ultimately sank. let s get the latest from will ripley, live off the coast of jindo, south korea. akin to murder. strong words from the president, will. we re having problems with will s shot? all right, we ll try