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Because this is says that's still ongoing. here's what we understand. people on board say they heard a bump. sounds like they must have hit something. the water here is very well charted and very deep. that's unusual. they believe it could have been an explosion on board that gave that sensation. they were almost immediately told not to get into the rescue boats but to get into the water. the yellow sea very cold. quick-moving currents. there was a quick response from the south koreans. they brought amphibious vehicles out there. the water we're told is 40 degrees fahrenheit. very limited amou...

Some other kind of a mishap. here it sounds like they hit something. t got outside the channel and hit, you know, rocks or, you know, like the concordia, remember the ship in italy? as long as you stay in the channels there, dredge, very busy shipping lanes. if it did hit something i it could have damaged. not that they're not very strong. there are ferris all over the world. often when that happens, yes, that's what happens, the doors fail. >> you mentioned the "costa concordia" in italy. we covered that one extensively. there there was an issue that they couldn't access certain life boat s b...

Christine. >> some passengers heard this bump before the boat started policing and then tipped. do we know anymore about what happened here? >> all we have at this point is those other eyewitness accounts, one of the passengers say that the shock of that impact did make people fall over, people were injured at that point and that's when the listing started. so obviously the assumption is that the ship may well have hit something. we're not hearing that officially. we're just hearing this from eyewitnesses and those passengers that were on board at the time. it did go down fairly quickly. it wa...

Jon: just in to the fox newsroom, a new video of the rescue operation continuing, looking for survivors in that capsized ferry. the thing turned over, sank very quickly apparently, throwing hundreds of people in the water. and at last report, more than 200 were still missing. the ferry primarily was carrying high school students on an excursion to an island just off the coast of the main land. but it didn't reach the island. there are suggestions that it may have hit something underwater but whatever the cause, this thing went down very quickly and a lot of people are still missing. those who ...

Happened so quickly. but some eyewitness accounts suggest it may have hit something in the water. what more have you learned about that part of the story? >> this is what we're hearing in particular for one eyewitness who was a student on board. he basically said he heard a loud and bumping, crashing sound. people started to fall over, some people were injured. the ship started listing and sinking and it has happened very quickly. just an hour or two hours after the distress call happened we know the coast guard confirmed people were ordered to jump into the water. they'll have life jackets on...