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Happen faster? >> exactly. on a ship, one thing that protects it from damage is to have compartmentattions so that you have water tight bulk heads the length of the ship. if there is damage throughout the length or the water tight boundaries are not maintained, then there could be progressive flooding. >> how the crew responded becomes essential. we have to find out whether or not they were closing those doors to stem literally tide entering. then we hear that only one of the life boats was depl...

Some other kind of a mishap. here it sounds like they hit something. t got outside the channel and hit, you know, rocks or, you know, like the concordia, remember the ship in italy? as long as you stay in the channels there, dredge, very busy shipping lanes. if it did hit something i it could have damaged. not that theyre not very strong. there are ferris all over the world. often when that happens, yes, thats what happens, the doors fail. >> you mentioned the "costa concordia" in italy. we cove...

Christine. >> some passengers heard this bump before the boat started policing and then tipped. do we know anymore about what happened here? >> all we have at this point is those other eyewitness accounts, one of the passengers say that the shock of that impact did make people fall over, people were injured at that point and thats when the listing started. so obviously the assumption is that the ship may well have hit something. were not hearing that officially. were just hearing this from eyewi...

Start trying to pull the 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...

Of south korea. we heard from one of the students who was on board and managed to get off the boat that he said he felt a bump and then many people fell over. then the ship started listing. and then it started to sink. they were basically given life jackets an told to jump t in the water. it is cold water. and we are hearing that really the chances of survival are really about two hours in that water. its about 11 hours since the first distress signal went out. chris? >> paula, one last quick qu...

The vicinity of where the ferry sunk off the coast of south korea. we are standing by, we are not conducting any search and rescue operations this evening, but the ship has been in contact with the on scene commander from the republic of korea navy and coast guard. and we are standing by and we have informed them that we are ready to assist as required and well be ready to assist with our capabilities, just as soon as we are requested to do so. >> when they decide they need some help. so tell me...

>> theres discreptcy in numbers at this point. as you can imagine as this is early hours of this disaster. it happened two hours ago, we understand. this ship that was heading from the capital to jeju. it was 9:00 in the morning that there was a distress signal. there were 350 people on board. theres discrepancy in the numbers. 86 they say have been rescued at this point. we heard a live press conference that said everybody on board was with ordered to jump off the ship and jump in to the waters...

Happened so quickly. but some eyewitness accounts suggest it may have hit something in the water. what more have you learned about that part of the story? >> this is what were hearing in particular for one eyewitness who was a student on board. he basically said he heard a loud and bumping, crashing sound. people started to fall over, some people were injured. the ship started listing and sinking and it has happened very quickly. just an hour or two hours after the distress call happened we know...

That could have been part of the reason why they jumped in the water. but we dont know about the life rafts. we didnt see any from the pictures. doesnt mean they werent there. >> paula, listing, solid rationale there. let us know what you learn there from the families. horrible waiting gim game for them. as this rescue operation for these nearly 300 missing continues, they are facing a lot of variables there. there are the currents, very quick there. and the water temperatures themselves are g...

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