ship they couldn't get to it. is this the best system for lifeboat deployment? this is a 20-year-old ship. i look at that footage and i see the guy kind of going over there to that stack of lifeboats. isn't there a design that would fire these things automatically? >> there isn't. if you look at similar sized ferry passenger vessels what we call roll pack, roll on, roll off operating in the baltic, for example, you have lifeboats which are ready for people to get into and then have them lowered into the water and life rafts which have to be manually deployed, thrown into the water and passengers and crew would have to swim to them in order to get on board. in the case of the korean ferry there were only life rafts. because of the delay by the captain to order that the life rafts be deployed the ship was at such an acute angle they were unable to deploy them and as a result it just added to the