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It is a gigantic challenge and hour by hour the chances of anyone staying alive in these conditions is of course diminished. >> tom foreman, appreciate that. with me again now, captain jim staples, 20 years with the merchant marines. also, retired u.s. naevy captai and experienced diver bobby scholely. it's 1:00 in the morning where the ferry sank. time is so precious. every minute can mean life or death. is there anything these water search crews can do overnight in that water? >> well, i think one of the things we talked about if they can try to keep that air bubble maintained in that ship. ...

So those survivors have been pressurized. so it's like a diver who's been under the water in a pressurized compartment. so gas has gone into their tissues and so they have been pressurized. so they need to be decompressed. they can do that once they bring them to the surface in a recompression chamber. of course, the koreans need to make sure they have the recompression chamber set up. that's not life threatening. they need to get them out of there before the ship sinks. >> thank you. very well explained, captain bobby scholely. i want to go to paul now and talk about the legal challenges. arr...

>> yes, there could be a charge of reckless manslaughter. south korea belongs to something coupled the imo, the national maritime organization, part of the united nations, and they set the safety regulations for crews ships around the world. if there's a violation and it's a reckless violation that cost a lot of human life, this captain and others on the ship could be facing very, very serious charges under korean law. >> this is all just starting to play out. let's hope, though, let's hope there are survivors in there. wouldn't that be amazing? >> it would be an amazing situation. there may b...

You may not want cargo, may just want to consider it strictly a passenger vessel. >> thank you, bobby scholely, thank you, jim staples. now back to that search for the missing malaysian plane. you're looking at live pictures of the submarine like the one that could be used to pull pieces of wreckage from the bottom of the ocean. that gentleman you see there is none other than martin savidge. what are you going to show us? that's a beautiful shot, by the way. >> yes, isn't that a gorgeous background? this is horseshoe bay, british columbia. whether you use a manned submersible like this one o...

>> i want to bring in some people now. captain jim staples here, a 20-year master mariner with the merchant marines and he knows that south korean waters well. also bobby scholely, a retired u.s. navy captain. and our very own legal analyst paul calan here. captain staples, how does that radio communications sit with you right? the control center was telling the ferry to get passengers ready to evacuate. >> similar to what we saw with captain toshino, the first order of business was evacuate the passengers as quickly as possible. it sounded like the crew of the ship might have been carrying on...