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To be inflated. >> they have to be pushed over the side of the ship, some meters, 35 feet, where they would then deploy and the passengers and crew would have to get down the gangway to the water line, or in a worse case situation actually throw themselves off the ship and then swim to the life rafts. so life rafts are a far more precarious way to evacuate from a ship than a life boats. but as i said, the sewol didn't have life boats. >> and now in the cafeteria, it is believed a lot of the missing bodies may be there. again, this is a delicate question, but is there any way at this point that...

There was a young girl in a life jacket who was found, she had drifted out to sea. so divers have been focusing on areas outside the ship. but they still believe the inside of the ship, now the fifth floor area, is what they're searching, that's still their primary focus. >> will ripley, live in jindo, thank you for that, and for the work you've been putting in hour after hour. if you think about the numbers on this story, there were 29 crew members, 29. 22 of them survived. and of the 22, half of them have been arrested. 11 of them. including the captain. i want to bring in christine dennison...

The disaster would not have been this bad. among the first to be rescued, kim says the captain and other crew members were already on dry land by the time he got there. while the captain ran away to save his own life, she gave her life to save others, says this family friends. we are so proud of her. park's relatives tell cnn they want to follow her example of thinking of others, although they say they could never do anything as courageous. park dropped out of college two years ago when her father passed away to help support her family. she was transferred to the sewol just six months ago. a s...

Captain jim staples, a marine safety consultant. i want to get your reaction to that crew member. 22 years old. and yet she defied orders and went with logic. >> yeah, it's just a shame that she had to lose her life. we were talking about what could have been wrong, what did go wrong. the inactions of the captain. it's a breath of fresh air to see that this young lady, miss young, stood up to the challenge. she knew what to do. she knew her responsibility was to get those people out of that cafeteria and get them to safety. and she gave her own life for doing that. she's a national treasure fo...

I just -- i can't wrap my mind around that. as a ship captain, i'm sure it's even tougher for you. >> absolutely. just the statement about the young man holding on to the microphone and telling people to stay where he was. yet this young lady knew what the right thing was to do. she knew to get everybody off that ship. it sounds to me like she should have been the one in command of that vessel and the gentleman that was in command was absolutely not making the decisions in the best of the passengers and the crew. it's just sinful that she had to give up her life. like i said, she's an absolute...