Posted on 09/20/2018 11:52:47 AM PDT by Simon Green
I am sure that is true (because hippos are amphibious).
I remember this because I had been watching MHZ the night before, and when I turned the tv on it the morning, it was running Arirang News, and it was THE story, for obvious reasons.
And the overload of this vessel made the "righting" attempts sluggish.
As for the captain: "[initially] Captain Lee also instructed passengers to stay put and did not change the order even as he was leaving the ship."
i believe another issue was the lack of any internal bulkhead on the car deck. These would have slowed loading and off loading. once the bow doors were breached there was nothing to stop the water filling the entire car deck.
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