anderson. and the ships behind you seem pretty widely spaced out. why is that? reporter: because we re looking at now a week. it has been a week now since this accident happened. take a look, you can see that there are a number of ships all around us. some of those ships, especially the blue ones have trawlers out to their side, large nets and they re going fact and forth across this area, why? because of bodies drifting out to sea. that is the type of horror the country says they simply can t stand. they want to bring the bodies of the 15 and 16-year-old children back home. anderson? kyung lah, i appreciate it. i want to bring in the maritime safety expert, jim staples. and president of security dynamics and retired navy seal, brandon web, joins us. and the idea that the young man
important language not willing to go over to recovery quite yet. we appreciate the reporting. joining me now a man who knows the difficulties of this search. the author of the s.e.a.l. survival guide. also kim petersen, president of security dynamics, governor emeritus. we got some new tick tock details of what went down that night, kim i want to get with you. but when talking about what kyung lah was just describing, the visibility that s less than the length of your arm, the temperature of the waters, the task at hand as a diver try to help us understand just how impossible all that is? i mean that s the word pretty much near impossible to try and operate in that environment. temperature. visibility. and now that the ship is lying there on the bottom of the sea,
notified coast guard. we have the president of security dynamics. you have such a breadth of knowledge on items like this. we re hoping you can explain this. to novices, five or ten minutes seems lake a long time. it does. and it s inexplicable at this point. we re still trying to gather as much information as possible. we re not sure when in fact they began to deal with the event after it first occurred. what we ve heard from some of the crew members that have been rescued, the captain was brought to the bridge. we know he was not there at the time the incident first occurred. they realized that the vessel was imperiled, at that point, apparently word went out to the passengers, telling them to stay put. that may have been because the captain felt he was going to be able to stabilize the vessel and perhaps provide a more stable platform from which to launch an
government does not appear to be moving as quickly as they would like. but certainly, anderson, i mean, this weather is just terrible. it has been a very, very difficult 24 to 48 hours. it is unbelievable, kyung lah i appreciate it. joining us, maritime expert, and president of security dynamics and rescue diver, butch hendr k hendrick, president. what do you make of this? the idea the captain would have been able to get off this ship while others were being told to remain in place. i know you have been in touch with rescuers. what are they telling you about the conditions right now? well, getting back to your first point about the captain, what we have heard is that yes, he was one of the first individuals sorry, go ahead. one of the first he was one of the first people to be pulled out of the waters into a
crawling on the outside of the upended ferry. in doing so, they ignored commands shouted over the ship s loudspeaker. translator: don t move. if you move, it is more dangerous. don t move. all right. joining us now on the phone is ken petersen, he s the governor emeritus of the nonprofit parry time security council and president of security dynamics. and kim, there seems to be a contradiction here. there are some people who say the safest place to be on a ship is in the vessel or near the vessel. yet we saw, again, with this disaster that those who did jump off, those who fled as soon as they could, they seemed to be the ones to survive. so the question is, what s the right decision? well, it s very difficult to determine what actually happened and the time line associated with those commands from the bridge. some reports from survivors indicated that they were told to