Summary: South Korea Ferry Disaster
•In the morning on 16 April ,2014, the South Korea Ferry sank on the way to Jeju. carrying 476 people, mostly secondary school students.
• In all, 304 passengers died in the disaster.[18] Of the approximately 172 survivors, many were rescued by fishing boats and other commercial vessels that arrived at the scene approximately 30 minutes before any South Korean coast guard or ROK Navyships.[19]