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Start trying to pull the boat back to shore. >> all right. what is -- i read reports that there was some noise before it started listing and tilting and then over and down. is there any sort of preliminary thought an to what has taken this ferry down? >> well, greta, they are still not too sure exactly what that loud thud was that some of the people who got off the boat say they heard before it started to tilt. of course, there is speculation it could be a rock. some maritime observers there say that the channel where the boat was passing through doesn't have those type of formations. so they ...

Sticking up. it's at least deep enough to swallow a ferry this size. do we know? >> we don't know -- >> i believe the depth in that area -- >> go ahead, peter. >> i believe it's 90 to 100 feet. at least the early reports suggest 90 to 100 feet. >> the conditions, you said it's cold, right, but it's fairly choppy, and in your experience with these things, you know, as peter said we're not sure, you know, what was happening inside of the ship. it was probably better for them to get off immediately. but you don't know. this happened 14, 15 hours ago, i would imagine, in darkness, you don't know a...

Trip, we just don't know. >> we're going to go to rob. peter just told us about what's happening inside the ship, but look at that water. you saw how choppy it is. the question is, is it easy, difficult, to veer off course in this area, rob? >> you know, it's a very tight area through there. there's a lot of shoels, a lot of small islands. anything at this stage is really supposition. you know, we have some blessings to count in that this occurred early in the day, in daylight, with relatively good weather, relatively calm conditions, and in an area that's relatively populous. there are major ...

>> again, as we just said, we have that new video in, we'll play that as we talk to the experts we have now. in boston is peter boynton, retired u.s. coast guard captain and co-director of the research institute for homeland security at northeastern university. in seattle, rob mccallem. he is an ocean search specialist and expedition leader. peter, first to you. i don't know if you can see this video, but does it give you any insight as to what happened on this ship? >> well, information at the beginning here is still coming in, but the speed at which the ship turned on its side and capsized c...

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