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On the rocks. not on the lifeboat. by the way, the captain says the rocks that tore the ship open, were not on any nautical maps and you heard the coast guard earlier say they were clearly on those nautical maps. >>shepard: we are getting word that the crash could make for some big changes in maritime law. >>trace: the old saying is that maritime laws are written in blood, the results of old disasters and you go back 100 years to the titanic and they changed the steel the ships were made of to make them less likely to crack in cold weather. in this case the passengers had in guidance and were ...

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Landed in the waters off japan. that caused an evacuation drill so they could see what they would do in the event of an actual attack. these are the kinds of preparations people in the region are making as they continue to watch pyongyang and they see these tests are not subsiding. that, despite these very strong warnings that have come not just from other countries in the region, but also as far as the u.s. as for provocative measures like this failed launch this morning, the tact we see from washington is the same, giving the launch little credence, the white house saying very little publicl...

Testify in the court or not. but as a witness i can say that i left the deck at 23:auto following an order from the captain who told me to go to the third deck to get into a life boat that could take more people. >> 23:50. that's 11:50. we know because the coast guard has the recordings that the captain was in that life boat being told to go back on the ship at 12:40 in the morning. jon? >> jon: there is more proof now that the crew didn't know what was going on? >> yeah. i mean, you talk about passengers for the first hour this ship was actually going down, they were roaming the decks, lookin...

Board that ship and the chaos and they were kind of wandering the decks looking for guidance. looking for a way to get off. the ship had just left port and they hadn't done their evacuation drill, international law allows 24 hours for that and the experts say that will likely change as will, they believe, the laws governing the behavior of captains. the old saying is that maritime law is written in blood because they are the results of disasters, even 100 years ago, shep, after titanic, the laws had sweeping changes then. >> shepard: trace gallagher live tonight in los angeles. trace, thanks. ...