boat back to shore. all right. what is i read reports that there was some noise before it started listing and tilting and then over and down. is there any sort of preliminary thought an to what has taken this ferry down? well, greta, they are still not too sure exactly what that loud thud was that some of the people who got off the boat say they heard before it started to tilt. of course, there is speculation it could be a rock. some maritime observers there say that the channel where the boat was passing through doesn t have those type of formations. so they are really not too sure. we probably won t know until they can actually bring the boat back to shore. this is a terrible story. absolutely terrible. jason, thank you. thank you. so how could a giant passenger ferry just sink? former coast guard captain peter boynton joins us. good evening, sir. good evening, sir. that s awful fast sinking, isn t it, for a
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operational environment. let s talk a little bit more about that, mario, because they re bringing in obviously these huge cranes. you heard what peter said the, if you destabilize it, run the risk, even if there are air pockets of getting rid of those and doing more harm than good. they have to be very careful with these cranes and any type movement of that vessel. i think what s most important about this is this water temperature. that hasn t been talked a lot about. people have survived in air pockets. but at 50 degrees the water is very cold. not only do they have to have air, they have to get up out of the water completely and get dry enough to stay warm. time is really a factor. if there s someone in there, every minute is what will matter getting them out. that cold water and cold environment makes survival less likely than the other situations we ve seen. chad, last we spoke the water
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dives on 3 to 4 knot current. that s really difficult to go the other way. easy to go with it but difficult to go the other way and swim with that current any length of time. you may have seen this picture from the situation room in korea. they re talking about where the ship was. it hit something here and floated to the north. then, what happened after that? let s show you why there is such a current here. take the location, south korea. that s where they were going, jeju, but they were skirting this tiny island there and that same guy and it it hit something and now moved up to the north. our team has this graphic and there s the guy and plotted it. there s where the course was and hit something and floating there in those currents as they go bark and forth twice a day at 6 to 7 miles an hour. i want to bringing up peter boynton founding co-director of
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