Posted on 04/18/2014 4:50:09 AM PDT by South40
Police say a high school vice principal who had been rescued from a sinking South Korean ferry has been found hanging from a tree.
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A police officer says the vice principal, identified only by his surname Kang, was found dead on the island of Jindo where rescued passengers have taken shelter.
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I read that a lot of students sank with the ship because they were told to stay in place because help was coming..........
Suicide? I wonder.
If he was responsible, then it makes sense. While I never have viewed suicide as anything but an offense against God, at least he had a sense of honor and was capable of shame. What a horrible thing, sitting on that island knowing that he sent hundreds of students in his charge to their deaths.
Doesn’t say if he did it or if someone else did... RIP.
WOW —
I question the suicide, too.
Responsible, really? Do you think that the Vice Principal ran the ship into a reef?
Survivor’s Guilt more likely.
I don’t understand why it sank? Overloaded? Terrorism? North Korea hit?
Read the reply to which I responded, make the logical connection between thar reply and my response, and get back to me.
I really don’t know. Sounds almost as if the load shifted.
I really don’t know. Sounds almost as if the load shifted.
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Since there doesn’t appear that there was a hull breach of any kind, a major shift of the load likely caused the ferry to list to the side which triggered more shifting and this continued until the ship capsized.
Maybe some high school joker decided to get everyone to move to one side of the ship and tip it like Guam?
According to what I’ve read, it sounds like human error compounded by further bad judgment. Allegedly the captain was not at the helm at the time but rather a rather inexperienced third mate, that the ship had been delayed due to fog and was trying to make up for lost time, that the ship started listing just after it made a rather sharp turn, possibly at too high a rate of speed, and that caused the ship’s load of cars and truck and freight to shift, causing the ship to go over on its side. And the death toll is likely as high as it is because the captain delayed evacuating for up to 30 minutes and instructions were given to passengers to put on their life vests but to stay put and await rescue (shelter in place?). By the time they realized the ship was going down, the captain and some of the crew had allegedly abandoned the ship, leaving the passengers on their own and or with confusing and chaotic instructions, but by that time many of them were now hopelessly trapped below deck.
Arrest warrants have just been issued for the captain and several crew members.
As to the high school vice principal’s apparent suicide; he was among one of the first passengers to be rescued. Not that he did anything wrong given the chaos of the situation or that he could have done anything more, but he evidently felt extremely guilty for having survived when so many of his students under his charge have perished.
Asian culture including that of Korea which shares some similarities to Japan, has a long history of so called “honorable suicide”. If a person thinks their actions have brought shame or dishonor to themselves and their family, they feel obligated to kill themselves.
Also turns out that the Captain was one of the first people off the ship, and he is safe and dry—until the parents of those drowned students get ahold of him.
Guess he went to the same captain school as Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino.
Students told to stay in place? Sounds eerily similar to the chicago catholic school fire in 1959(?) when students were told to stay at their desks.
Apparently so...the only question is: did the South Korean Captain have his girlfriend on the bridge at the time he hit the rocks?
(Asian culture including that of Korea which shares some similarities to Japan, has a long history of so called “honorable suicide”. If a person thinks their actions have brought shame or dishonor to themselves and their family, they feel obligated to kill themselves.)
How do we import that Into dc?
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