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It was that the balance of the ship felt wrong. anderson. >> the ship's behind you seem widely spaced out. why is that? >>. >> because we're looking at now -- it has been a week since the accident happened. take a look. you can see 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. they are going back and forth across this area. why? because of bodies drifted out to sea. that's a type of horror that this country simply says it cannot stand. they want to bring the bodies of these 15 and 16-year-old children back...

This is extraordinarily stressful on these individuals. i know navy divers that have been involved in rescue efforts in the past that were much shorter and less stressful than this had to have psychological counseling because it was so disturbing for them. at this point risking lives when you have technology available instead is i think a good move on the part of the south korean government. >> what they are going through and the heroism of them to do this -- and they are doing it around the clock. captain staples, good to have you on. just ahead, breaking news on the underwater search for fli...

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? >>...

Investigation as to what happened. the time frame. and what his actual commands were as he was captain of that ship. did he give the evacuation orders? was it the third mate? was it somebody else? that's probably what they're trying to do is piece back together the event. >> captain staples, tell us how a ferry is different from a normal commercial ship. what is unique about a ferry that investigators have to look at? is it more prone to sink? >> well, no, it's not that. the uniqueness about a ferry is, obviously, this is, this one, it carries passengers. most commercial vessels, we only have ...

>> 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...