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Cnn's pauline chiou is following developments, live for us in south korea. bring us up to speed, pauline. >> reporter: well, christine, the promising news is that those two divers were able to enter the ship. the bad news is that they came across a lot of challenges. they said that there were a lot of obstacles in the water and there were rough current. now, here's what happened during the dive operation. the two divers were able to put a guide line in place. this is a line that attaches the divers to the rescue vessel. this line was intended for those other 17 divers to be able to get into th...

Right now, but that number is going to go way, way up. officials expect the death toll to rise dramatically with some 271 people still missing. cnn's pauline chiou live in south korea for us this morning with the very latest. good morning, pauline. >> reporter: good morning to you, john. we have an update on that dive operation that you touched on. the coast guard has given us more details. they said 17 divers were involved in the operation today. two of them were able to enter the ship and they were able to get to a certain area where they could put a guide line in place. this is a line that ...

So they would have had to find a space to climb up into. that's -- a rare thing to find on the boat. they are just going to have to take a systematic approach and search the ship. i think that maybe the cranes will help. they will be more stable and i think that will change things if the -- when the cranes can get will and can stabilize the ship. >> with the cranes, walk me through that process. how would that work? how would that help? >> well, right now, i heard -- reports on the water everywhere from 500 to 700 feet. here's helping it remain stable enough. when the cranes get there, if the ...