Award-Winning Animation: Two Contrasting Views of the South Korea Ferry Accident
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2015
- Richard Clive Holman Award was given in 2019 by Chartered Institue of Ergonomics and Human Factors for Effective Communication of the Value of Human Factors.
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The Subtitles in Spanish, Korean and English are Available.
Praise received so far.
“Excellent animation. Puts all the pieces together nicely. Fastest introduction to the “new look” in system safety you will find. ”
Richard Cook, Professor of healthcare system safety, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
“Your animation makes the point brilliantly. Next step: Getting people to view it, digest it, and change behaviour.”
Don Norman, Professor Emeritus of both psychology and cognitive science, One of the world’s most influential designers, USA
“I have watched the video with much pleasure! What a great piece of work. It is this kind of medium that we need more of in order to get the message through to those who would never read the books on this stuff.”
Sidney Dekker, Professor, Best-selling author on human factors & safety, Australia
“It’s very, very good. Clear, brilliantly produced and thought-provoking.”
Steve Evans, BBC’s Seoul Correspondent, South Korea
“This is so thought-provoking, learning in complex safety-critical environments, blame v just culture.”
Martin Bromley, Founder and Chair of Clinical Human Factors Group, UK - Фільми й анімація
I just cannot wrap my head around this: "The captain and crew abandoned the ferry after telling passengers to remain in their cabins."
I think I finally understand why. As mentioned the ship was hopelessly overloaded, so they had to empty the ballast tanks at the bottom, making the ship top heavy and very unstable (my jaw dropped when they mentioned this in the video).
The captain knew all this and was probably afraid the ship would capsize within minutes, killing everyone. It has happened before with the MS Estonia.
So they were fearing for their lifes and fled - which however is inexcusable and disgusting behaviour.
It is worth mentioning that 3 crewmembers actually died, saving as many as they could.
True. I hate it when people say, it was because the kids "obeyed" orders, like dude. It's like blaming the kids for dying! Don't other ferry tragedies hear the same thing prior to the disaster? And yet the stark difference is that for those where passengers were all saved, someone actually took the lead and took the responsibility to help them survive, in this case, it SUCKS that the captain and crew left first.
If you want to wrap your head around it, and if you have an hour or two to spare, watch the documentary "In the Absence" ua-cam.com/video/5_A8dq2fA5o/v-deo.html by Yi Seung-jun. As it puts texts (of students) and radio conversations (of officials) on top of video of the exact same times, the absurdity of the situation is brought home. You'll hear officials discuss/chat how landing a rescue official on the ship soon is crucial to look good --- at a point where the ship was already upside down and 99% under, showing just a bit of bow. You hear a phonecall from the President's office to the coastguard that it's important to save everybody, to get everybody off board and go systematically through each room --- as if that's not obvious; as if the President's secretary has any secret naval knowledge to dispense during a crisis... Then the President visits so an inexperienced diver with bad material has to put on a show. One thing after another.
The video takes only half an hour, you'll need the rest to recover, or pause throughout.
I'm on a cruise ship and it's tilted. I don't care what the captain said I'm leaving. I know my mind I'll be thinking pure negative things that I'm gone.
@@melanielazare9 yes but you have to take korean culture into account. The kids are though to respect and follow adults and figures of authority. Even the korean language is structured this way. That's why most of them follow the orders.
Even if it was an accident, there’s no excuse for the captain not warning the passengers to escape. I will continue to blame everyone who did not do the right thing.
just another human being a human, if you would lived his life you would have done the same (;
@@fea4851 Are you seriously defending someone who abandoned the ship and its passengers? That he is "Just another human"?
@@slim9768 yeah crybaby, because i hate murderers less then people who think they are better even if they arent
@@slim9768 and im very sure i would like you less then the ferry dude if i could see your lifes complete and compared
IDC what they told me to do. My azz would've been outside on deck. Not trapped in a room to die. That might've saved more lives had everyone moved to the opposite side of the boat to shift some of the weight. It would've at least stayed afloat longer. They should also have inflatables that deploy on the side of the ship, if sinking!!
The captain allowed his ship to be overloaded, ordered the ballast be pumped out and put an inexperienced person behind the wheel. However, had the captain refused to overload the ship he would have been fired and replaced with someone else who was willing to break the rules. I find all those who overloaded the ship responsible and guilty of murder.
Yes, but there was an epic failure in what could have been a sea/water rescue vs people ordered to stay put and officials charged with response failing in multiple ways and covering it up.
The captain could have been in dilemma for that and I feel bad for him, BUT he should not abandon the clueless passengers & save his very own ass the moment accident happened, that's what is unforgivable.
guess you didnt watch the entire video at all.
Regardless of that the coast guard refused to dive and rescue when ship capsized and ship the carried captain away was ordered to turn in siren but they refused. President asked for pics and videos of ship but they refused. Also they only used about 4 rescue boats out of 40
One word "corruption". The company got away with breaking many regulations and this is the result.
FireOccator they said the government officials but I only think it’s the company
i watched the kids' mobile videos the lifejackets they were wearing were older than they were, God knows when they were last checked/serviced
@@NGRevenant nice username
Corruption because they care about profit more than a human life 😢
@@haerincore.4572sounds like Norfolk southern. Profits first safety last
i heard SK government denied help of an American and Japanese navy ship
They denied any kind of help, even the expert in deep ocean rescue not allowed to volunteer
@@aura4844 navy seals turned away
their is video on you tube of seals turned away
they almost murder the 3 volunteer divers in the diving bell that Mr. lee jong-in set-up his wife give a 150,000 dollar because her and his husband is so sad to the accident and mr.jong-in is an expert divers. It's so sad how media and government official make them responsible by telling lies and faking everything. I felt bad for those people that waited to save in the air pockets of the ferry using the effectiveness of the diving bell, but it's sad that there's a devil people that will do anything just to stop their operation and can't proved how helpful it is. Just imagining students and people that fear in the dark of the ocean makes my heart and soul in pain. If government just step aside their pride and immoral act then there's a hope that these people will live their life today. I salute the volunteer divers, Mr Jong-in, lee sangho and his crew. I recommend you guys to watch the truth about this tragic accident on how media manipulated the one that came and willing to give hopes to the families that left behind.
@@BlackjackiesChannel You are right! Mr. Lee Jong In worked tirelessly and was emotionally overwhelmed when he was turned away, TWICE! And yes, the coast guard nearly killed his divers and destroyed a very expensive piece of equipment that could have saved people if they'd let him and his crew in on the third day. It's heartbreaking!
Ive watched so many videos and documentaries about this tragedy (including Diving Bell: the truth shall not sink with the Sewol video) and in my opinion the cruise's company, the captain and the SK government should be blamed.
It is (or was) very popular to blame the S. Korean government for the incident. In as much as they appear to have refused Japanese and American help you may be right that they bear a responsibility for the unusually high death toll when the ferry remained above water for at least three hours after capsizing. But a host of individuals closer to the scene and lower down in the chain of command are guilty of cowardice, probable corruption and certainly incompetance.
The owners, the captain, most of the crew, the coast guard, the government. They all had a hand in it.
While the hull was still clearly visible above the sea, the KCG instead of sending a diver to properly locate a potential air bubble inside the Sewol and supply an air hose, the diver simply tossed the air hose into the sea around the ship and said it was secured. All for the sake of making a good impression for the president and cameras. The ship completely submerged shortly after. There may have been passengers trapped inside air bubbles, but we'll never know. All they are now are memories to the people who knew them.
304 lives. 250 young students. It didn't quite dawn on me how devastating that loss of life is until I tried scrolling through an online memorial and viewing every single entry to pay my respects. These students had lives, aspirations, family, favourite music, birthdays coming up... And it wasn't just students, there were many others including younger passengers and elderly on board who also perished.
The most infuriating part of this tragedy is of course that the loss of life was completely preventable even as the ship listed heavily. The PA to remain in the cabins made by crew members and the captain, which continued to repeat while the captain abandoned ship and the cabins flooded, cost hundreds of families their loved ones.
Wait how is South korea what is in this i thought it wad north korea
Every link in the chain has corroded.
-The captain's incompetence (lack of leadership and abandoning ship)
-the crews lack of training (no idea how to handle the situation, delays on notifying authorities)
-company's greed for money (2x the ship's carrying capacity and adding extra cabin rooms on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors)
-government's corruption (letting companies get away with stuff)
-president park's lack of actually being president (plastic surgery for 7 hours)
Everything that could go wrong, will go wrong (Murphy's law)
Two words.......Diving Bell
The authorities didn’t let the person who had the diving bells use them. They had them all die in there and drown to death.
One important fact lead to this accident: far eastern mentallity. As a minor you do not speak up and you do not criticise superiors.
This has already lead to some accidents in the far east. For example, the co-pilot knew that a particular runway at Taipeh airport was closed due to maintanance. But the captain accidentally decided to take-off from this runway and the co-pilot did not say a word, even though he knew that the captain was wrong.
That is why some asian airlines send their chief-pilots for crew resource management training to western airlines.
it's so true. so true.... as someone who was biculturally born and raised in the US as a Korean American I could not help but keep thinking this... like the students were calmly following orders. But the total opposite would've happened in the US with American students and that might've saved more lives
I find it funny when all the "know it all" Americans start commenting on a foreign tragedy and link it to race and culture as though they know what they are talking about. How about you do the same for all the mass shootings and rioting in your own home country? Is that what the "perfect" culture is meant to look like? Actually hilarious
@@doggoswampu1450 Same shit happened 2-3 times before in Europe - Estonia, Greece (sank in South Africa, it's a Greek ship), and Italy, every time the cazzo refused to actually do anything about the shipwreck. Italians must be very amused about how asian thinking caused the Concordia accident.
@@doggoswampu1450 Chill the f out. Nowhere did they claim American culture is perfect. It's far from perfect. But it's a well documented fact that western cultures are more individualistic, and eastern cultures are more collectivist. A collectivist culture is great with something like covid- just look at how South Korea fared with covid compared to free thinking, individualistic USA. But with a situation like this tragedy, collectivist thinking may have lead to more deaths.
@@doggoswampu1450 and many if not most of the people I've seen commenting on this phenomena are Koreans themselves or biracial/Korean Americans.
The captain had a choice save them or just leave them & he did just that? This is heart breaking 😢
When i watch some documentary about this my heart crumble in into pieces
Best explanation ever with such amazing animation
Uweeeeee
You're here too? 👀
Your here too.
Bruh, can you stop, man? Ur seriously so damn annoying
Ohh here you are???i just came from shot on iphone..th!!!
Now I completely understand why my father never let me go in ANY trips without him or mom
True
That's true
My father is investigating Se-Wol-Ho. He told me that the students' dead bodies are missing their fingernails. They realize in the boat where the students were, was full of scratch marks. You can probably tell that they wanted to escape and live so bad. The other students who survived were at the very top floor of the boat and could see what was happening so they went out. The others who couldn't see the situation drowned. They believed that the crew would save them but they didn't. We can't blame it all on the captain and the others who never had a situation like this. I wish this kind of accident never happens again. 잊지않을게 🎗
June Kim apparently some of them had broken fingers from trying to climb out. I truly can’t imagine what their last moments were like
The tragedy has happened and there is little more that can be usefully said or done. But apart from the mystery of why the ferry capsized in the first place, there is the completely unsatisfactory order given repeatedly to the students to stay put and not move when the vessel was already tilting 60°. To me it seems extraordinary that the students were so disciplined that they obeyed, and that their supervising teachers did not act on their own initiative and herd them out of their cabins and out on deck.
@@Dylandog24 its part of east asian culture to obey authority and your superiors. sadly, this attitude helped cause so many unecessary deaths. its such a trajedy
The captain told them to stay put and escaped the children nonexistent to him
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Tragedy happened again tis 2022 Horroween stampage in itawan! N it will, bcos these tragedy seem like a chain reaction in Korea, what wrong!!??
I cried because of this incident. Until now, it must have been an angel. Good angel If it didn't happen like this, the siblings would have graduated for a long time.
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it's weird to make up two viewpoints when it's all a facter. It's important to discuss ways to prevent the same mistakes, but also to punish all negative contributers to the problem.
Seven years later this tragedy still feels like a nightmare to this day. My heart is with the parents faculty the survivors and the community affected by this unfathomable and unwarranted tragedy caused by human error and arrogance. Those involved who failed these kids and the parents along with their school will have a karmic debt to pay to god himself. The blood of those victims are on the hands of those involved. To watch in horror everything that took place shouldn’t have happened. Those precious children shouldn’t have experienced this kind of horror. We will never forget them and we will never forget the negligence that shouldn’t have happened at all. R.I.P. to the sewol ferry ⛴ victims 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺💐💐💐💐💐🌷🌷🌷🌷⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ xs 304
Well no one gonna talk about the animation itself?
I mean the topic is so interesting and rip for those who died, but the animation in this case deserves some praises
This must be shared with all in hierarchy of administration, businesses and management of all developing countries. The video talks about collective fault with system and should be taken as such.
WOW! this was so much more than I expected. I thought it was just 2 opposing accounts of the incident, but the idea of it being caused by complex factors is kind of reassuring.
This is a really unique analysis of the catastrophe and is probably relevant to accidents everywhere, thanks for this
This case will always have a place in my heart .
There’s so many tragedies out there in the world but even in 2022 I think about these student’s. Oh how scary it must’ve been for them .
Same I'm still here watching videos and crying the worst is that in another video I fought against people who defended the captain. How can they defend such a heartless man if we can call him a man
It doesn't matter how you slice it people screwed up. It is not important about what drove them. The bottom line is greed and incompetence cost hundreds of lives. Everyone involved of the company and crew are guilty so there is no point trying to excuse their behavior. Only a change in the societal and business pressures will prevent things like this happening.
Will not be happy for winning Award of this animation for this accident.
Honestly even if consider the complicated factors that led to the accident the element that is entirely inexcusable is the captain being one of the first off the ship without letting any of the passengers know what's going on. He placed his personal safety above the lives of the passengers he was responsible for and didn't even give them enough info for them to try to save themselves. That makes him guilty of murder from my perspective.
This does not explain the incomprehensible actions (or lack of) from the s.k. government post-accident.
It is truly horrifying and saddening that so many young lives were lost, likely and simply to protect some chaebol.
Yeah like no government divers were able to help retrieve the bodies after the tragedy, and civilian divers had to do it?? The civilian divers mentioned themselves that there were not enough divers. I just can't believe the fact that there were NO divers available to handle this type of tragedy.
The fact that 95% of the victims in the ferry were still alive DAYS after the ship sank. One girl and her friends even posted on Facebook that they're alive, yet the government said it's a fake account, despite the post listing specifically the names of the girl and her friends. And the mom even got the post's location tracked down and it was confirmed that it was posted at the location of the incident, and yet the government still did nothing. It's almost like they're deliberately letting the high school kids die. Not to mention when they retrieved the body most of them weren't even swollen, meaning they didn't die from drowning and that there were most likely air pockets in the ship, instead they probably died due to hyperthermia. Basically they could've saved most of the students if the government sent government divers ASAP. But nope, they fucking did nothing and the former president even suspended the recovery of the ship all of a sudden for some reason and it took them 3 years before they properly got the shi to resurface and be researched.
I think you have a good point with number 2, but I also think people who don't value safety and truth, or people's lives, should not be in ANY kind of position of power. Should not be in ANY kind of position to call the shots in a rescue mission. Until they can replace all incompetent and corrupt people, of course those pressures will still be there. A society that fuels immorality is what that is.
Do you think maybe if they could look ahead, they'd realize any fuck ups that they cause, directly or indirectly, would result in mobs of angry people calling for their resignation or even their demise? (AKA more pressure. Probably worse than work pressure. Because it involves being responsible for a terrible accident.)
Do you think they'd realize that covering it up actually makes it worse? It makes me angry. It happened 5 years ago and I am outraged.
Think of this on a smaller scale. A drunk driver crashes into a family. One member survives. It was an accident. Should they not press charges? There are thousands of drunk drivers. This could have been anyone.
Irresponsible people should be held accountable. They should learn from their mistakes. You kill someone, you go to jail. The drunk driver hopefully learns that driving drunk is dangerous. It doesn't matter how many times they've made it home safe.
Amen.
It will happen again, in other places, another time or place. It is not if but when.
Very true
Just Watch Diving Bell; Truth Sall Not Sink with Sewol ( Diretors cut/ free release)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please just watch this documentary, Only one reporter did this video
"Desire for minimum workload": goal achieved.
What a great point, there are so many individuals in this and just one of them could’ve changed this disaster
The biggest criminals here are first and foremost the damn captain, then sewol managements that allowed the ship to operates 3 times over its legal capacity and any politicians or media trying to make use of this tragedy for their own purposes. I think it’s very unfair to put all the angers to the Korean Coast Guard and to shut down this entire institution is making another horrific disaster.
I saw the Korean documentary video there was underwater collision reported by the eyewitness accounts hearing loud banging and also the ship was sailing in heavy fog
The ship was not sailing in "heavy fog". Various cell-phone snaps taken just before the incident prove this. And the raised hull does not show much evidence of an underwater collision.
It was overloaded
collision? 170ft deep. captain responsible for 300 deaths.loud noise cud be cars/trucks slid to side killing the balance
@@tomholland2707 yes the captains mate decided to make a sharp turn at full speed dislodging the trucks n cars on the car deck..They have recovered the footage showing it causing the ship to dip under water then that was all it took and it failed to right itself turning completely turtle, exactly like the Estonia and the herald of free enterprise..These ro-ro ferry’s are death traps fact..!!
@@Roscoe.P.Coldchain It even has an elevated center of weight compared to its original design, for loading more cars and people
Gyuchan, your analysis is spectacularly precise. Whenever I wish to shine a light on seafaring as a brotherhood of victims I mention your work and your name with enormous gratitude. God bless you !.
I feel like Spring Day MV is abt all of the 5 major accidents tht are mention in this video .
I can see the point this video seeks to make. Multiple, sometimes random factors coming together to make a perfect storm etc. but, specifically, I believe the largest failing came down to the captain who had it within his power to save life and didn't. By what is inferred in the video, this captain was used to sailing with overloaded vessels, critically so, in this instance. It figures that if there was a shift in the cargo brought about a change of course from 135 degrees to 140 degrees (source, Wiki page) - hardly radical - then the vessel was hopelessly top heavy. Now, on reaching the bridge, where unsuccessful efforts were already being made to reverse the list, how could he not have considered a worst case scenario of capsize, and how he could not issue a general alert to have passengers head to the ship's muster points. UA-cam is full of videos of passengers on cruise ships being readied for a POSSIBLE evacuation. I suspect he was overwhelmed with guilt about being in charge of a man made catastrophe and lapsing into complete denial. It is a reality that as a ship's list increases it becomes harder and harder for people to move up the decks from the lower cabin areas. Imagine, for example, a staircase 40 degrees off the the vertical. It's not a staircase any more and ascent becomes difficult to almost impossible. All the more so with large multiples of passengers in a state of panic and distress; and yet, at 30 degrees engine room crew at the bottom of the vessel made it off the ship without issue. I should say, I spent eighteen months working at sea as a Entertainments Officer with special emergency duties, either as OiC (officer in charge)or 2nd Oic of one of the ship's muster stations at which some 500 passengers and over two hundred members of the ship's crew would assemble. I can hardly explain the amount of training, seminars and drills we would conduct in pursuit of implementing a safety regime that was rigidly scrutinised by the International Maritime Organisation. Wherever we went in the world whether it was New York, Piraeus or Sydney, the respective coast guards had full autonomy to come on board and inspect our procedures. The certificates they would issue, assuming we had passed their inspection, were of limited duration and so our ship would have to re-qualify time and again. Unfortunately, it seems like the Sewol was only plying domestic waters and not subject to an inspection process of any rigour. A final thought, those children and their teachers were blameless. They were following instructions and cannot have appreciated the very grave danger they were in.
Ps. I will edit this submission in time. At the moment I am following several videos and there is quite a lot of conflict between them. One shows very detailed analysis to suggest there was no overloading. Elsewhere it remains suggested as a factor.
In your additional research, be sure to include 3 critical events in the life of 박한결 세월호 3등: The failure of the rudder in the hands of helmsman Cho; 2. 박한결 세월호 3등, upon the disembarkation of the Captain, First Officer, Second Officer, and the Chief Engineer at 0936, became the de jure Captain of the Sewol, but the ageist/misogynistic commentators seem unable to give the title, “Captain,” to a young (Asian) woman; 3. The report (seen only once) that Captain Park Han-kyul was pulled from the awash bridge window does not have a time-stamped video.
Good analysis. If we don't reflect on the system itself, the same system will push more new hires to the same position and when the balance is broken, new disasters will happen.
this is why it’s important to keep things balanced. never lose sight of where you come from and possible consequences. it’s never a good thing to be too greedy.
This video reminds me of a corporate video you were forced to watch and then sign off on for safety training.
I think the rescue was I disaster, when the ferry was almost totally upisde down, there was still people alive inside it, they could brreak the windows and rescue them, or maybe get some divers to try to rescue them.
I recommend you watch this documentary: ua-cam.com/video/0Ef9r0Slauc/v-deo.html
The wave currents were too strong for the divers yet they tried their best, it isn't that easy to just break windows and rescue them
Yeah but the thing is both japan and the Us offered help three times but they were denied and also the ferry took 1 hour to sink and to make things worse a oil tank that was huge contacted the crew and asked everyone to jump out so that they can be saved the oil tanker could carry up to 500 people if this isn’t blatant murder at it’s finest then i dont know what this is
Coast guard sd currents were too strong, they wd all drown if they tried. A diving bell/capsule would have helped but the (human) response was horrible. Coast guard have to rescue in water and on deck first then, if possible (they were tired /sick) those in cabins. Negligence all around.
while the students were drowning,they tried to break the windows with chairs.Officers saw them but they just looked at them and did nothing.
@@kimruby6965 I know, that is why I said it was a disaster
The captain did not act as a captain or an honourable hero who could save lives. It's such a shame for the captain to board a lifeboat minutes later, leaving almost half of the highschoolers in the ferry instead of continuing to guide them to save their lives on the speaker. The captain seem to be very inexperienced of what I've noticed to some videos of telling the student just to stay inside their cabins, which is really dumb for their situation, and then left the speaker, leaving the students trapped in their cabins.. They should've told them to go to any exit routes such as big port holes or windows they can break, or a near exit.
Lol the only view there is and should be acknowledged is the fact that they could have saved every single passenger on that ferry but didn't, to save their ass from the backlash after the truth will be revealed. 'Cause who cares about 200+ people when my money and reputation is in jeopardy right?
Schettino!
This animation is very well made!
Lesson i have taken from this disaster is to abandon the sinking ship asap. Reach on a higher ground.. where you can be rescued easily.
This is like when right brain mean left brain to turn on a light bulb. I love this. We need more.
Eu fiquei chocada ao saber desse fato que até então eu não conhecia.
Sou mãe de um garoto de 17 anos e me coloquei no lugar de cada pai e mãe que perderam seus filhos de uma forma tão cruel e irresponsável.
Chorei muito. Pois até então eu não sabia desse caso. Meus pêsames a todas as famílias que perderam seus filhos.😖
i agree that this was a complex situation and we should never look at things simply; but i feel by calling such a tragedy an accident or something to learn from completely disregards the people who were affected by the situation. i don't like the idea of basing the sewol disaster as a industrial/decision-making lesson. i feel there were some things that happened that shouldn't of happened that every person pursuing anything to do with organizing a ferry would know and not follow. even if the disaster wasn't avoidable, the communication was horrible. this was, to me, the main issue of the tragedy. r.i.p. to those who passed🎗️
I get what you mean, it is a tragedy and I feel for the families heavily. Losing someone is very painful, and having people cover it up and not properly provide safety for the people on board makes it even harder. However saying that this is something to learn from is completely valid because this must NEVER happen again. People who are not capable of protecting the citizens should not be in power, or in careers that will put them in a position where they have to save the lives of others. We have to improve the system to protect others, and if we don't learn from the past how could we grow? This situation only breaks my heart, they will never be forgotten no matter how many years go by.
Great analysis and thought. True on both points
Error, the ballast should have filled with seawater to the max because it was top loaded and unstable. The captain wanted to sail faster so omitted this mandatory ballast increase.
Where were the lifeboats located
more on above or in the section between the bow and the stern.
the problem was that the way the ship had listed, it probably would not have been possible to easily launch a single boat, let alone all of them. This was an issue on the Costa Concordia as well.
It would have been more prudent to get people to the outer portions of the starboard side of the ship, where they could have been reached by other ships, or worse case scenario be able to escape into open water, as opposed to being trapped in the ship.
The captain and crew should've at least told everyone to get to the ferry's deck... the students got trapped inside the ferry because they were told to stay still...
If only the captain told the students to get out instead of staying put .. it's heart wrenching to even think about suffocating under water unable to get to the doors , seeing people outside while you are desperately trying to escape, drowning , nobody helping you ..
Great video, very thought provoking.
Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏼
This is superb! Those Precious kids❤️💔❤️❤️🙏God Bless them & their families. I’m a seasoned professional journalist & this is the most heartbreaking tragedy done 9/11 imo God give strength & comfort to all affected❤️🙏🕊
The moral of the story: It's not safe when everyone is bald.
Good post, Good points. Doesn't change the *FACT* that the captain and crew were grossly, murderously, criminally negligent in their response to the disaster when the ship started to capsize.
Although it is true we need to look beyond blame and look at all factors leading to this disaster, and it is true that humans, properly trained and properly responding, can be the heroes who stop or minimize damage from many disasters, there are still some people involved in this accident (particularly captain and crew) who do need to be charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and punished for their overt, grossly negligent and incompetent performance in the disaster. There is no fixing this one if you don't make it excruciatingly clear that people are going to be accountable if they f*** up that badly.
Even with everything else leading to this accident - the captain and crew abandoning ship and leaving the passengers to die - especially telling them over the loudspeakers to stay in their cabins and await instructions, and the crew abandoning ship without giving any such instructions - is absolutely inexcusable.
Agree. The thing is, I find it odd that people seek truth when the truth is bared in front of everyone, and that is failure. Failure of the Captain and it's crew and it's company to secure safety, the government's failure to respond appropriately and responsibly and the passenger's failures by trusting the command/instruction . But please, don't hate me for saying the latter. I sympathize to those victims. I just want to emphasize that it's our behavior and our ability to react that should kick in whenever we're face with any kind of situation. Follow our instinct and do what we think is best w/o causing more trouble or panic. I am in no way have any rights to say a thing as I was not in the actual event however I wish that this kind of incident will never happen again.
Don't take it as if I was blaming the victims. No. Never. I just want to point out that we can only trust ourselves when face with danger. We can't expect other people to their job. They should but when push comes to shove, your on your own. Let's just educate ourselves. Learn from this. And remember to always, always trust our instinct but never panic....
I can't believe I only know this just today! I just happened to saw a post when I was scrolling fb. It is saddening. I cried watching some documentaries 😥
This disaster can be looked at as 2 separate events that lead to the "accident" .The first involving corrupt officials within government and company employees of witch the captain and crew were part of. The second actions taken by the captain and crew once this disaster started was to play the most pivotal part in this horrific story. The absolute cowardice and puzzling actions of the crew led to the loss of all who died. One thing this doc did not mention is that the captain and some of his crew removed their uniforms when being rescued so not to be identified by coast guard sailors. They did not inform anyone as to the safety of the passengers or what actions should follow they just boarded the small rescue boat climbed on and nothing. This is criminal. The most disturbing part of this story is the footage shot on cell phones by the students them selves , you can hear them joking about being rescued but also the tension in their voices. I can't imagine the terror in their voices as the water poured into their cabins and realizing their fate is doomed and they aren't being rescued and this is the end , its heart breaking. Just hope the next time you are travelling that the company you are using has hired the right individuals to get you home safely. Peace
WOW! Amazing work!. very smart analysis
Very well made video! Kudos to the creators.
Very well done video.
After watching many shipwrecks videos, they all almost have the same things in common. Negligence, corrupt people/company, greed, selfishness and overall people who are not doing things in a way that is best for the safety of the people on board or the ship itself.
I've seen stuff like this personally in other ways, people will cut corners and do things that could cause serious harm to people until they get caught or something happens, so its a matter of time until something bad occurs. It is very scary and happens way too much. In general, horrible things occur way too much, humans seem to not learn from the past so it keeps repeating.
The South Korea ferry accident is such a terrible tragedy, those kids trusted those in charge and thought they would be okay, they should all be alive. I hope they are in a better place.
very interesting. But in the end- the issue is not the accident or that the ship sank, but how it was handled and how people was mislead to stay whilst the crew left. nothing can defend that, no other human shall tell them to stay regardless of position. what a tragedy.
So Basically the Driver of the Ship was a Rookie and Killed many kids with his Horrific Decision of Sharp Turning a over loaded Vessel .Wow.. Fire the one who hired him and fire him to.
Oh thank God an english narration. I am trying to research this incident for a class. And it is so hard to keep good notes reading subtitles. Bless you. And Rest in peace to all those lost..
Blames happen when disaster strike , its the master full responsibity to bring ships and passenger to next port . overload on passenger are responsible by maritime authority and coast guard . They issue clearance to sail under capacity limits . Captain and deck officer are aware about ships stability booklet provided by a naval architect . Ballast management if need can be execute by chief officer onboard to keep GM in positive posistion
This is a good video that points out that safety rules are written in blood. Almost every commercial vessel, plane, vehicle, and building collapse disaster has its root cause in the "money first" mindset. This "money first" mindset has been going on for eons and it'll keep on going on. Blood is cheap and people easily forget when big profits can be made by neglecting safety.
You can run a business using a NOT FOR PROFIT model. It just means private capital shareholders do not get to skim off profits from the revenue steam. Market forces can still keep prices low through competition. But the not for profit business has less internal pressure on its resources and is more capable of maintaining and improving safety protocols.
The fact they were thinking about how it will be seen on the media /television then while they are supposed saving people is just ridiculous
Very, very good explanation on system thinking in safety area.
ua-cam.com/video/dhME_nj5CWc/v-deo.html. the truth about sewol
Extremely interesting video
My heart still brakes
Great video
This video does not really explore "all" solutions. Why should people either be blamed or learn from this tragedy ? Why can't it be both ? In a society that corrupt, not blaming people would send very wrong messages. Especially if it is very obvious that someone knowingly made wrong choices. Also science is very biased, as is the government and their investigations. So how could they learn from it ? The only solution is to get rid of those who are the "spiders" in the huge nets of corruption and tackle the hierarchy system.
the plain simple truth is that all situations cant be prepared for. the best we can do is try to train people with skills that will allow survival in multiple situations. tragedies will continue to happen throughout human existence. the best we can do is learn from them.
Video is interesting, but is more about the concept of outside pressures on indiduals contribute to human error. The accident itself is given only a cursory examination, and only acts as a setting for this discussion
Very true, we " humans'' are our worst nightmares.
I agree👍👍🤔🤔
7:30 now in 2022 ,the Itaewon crowd crush incident took place
The coastguard couldn’t do anything they wasn’t trained for this scenario.
Accident? No, they're murdered them, it's not an accident
So that's why things ended up being the way they are!
Mind-blowing explainTion
i just cannot grasp how in such a complex system that is supposed to help maintain safety for passengers failed on every single possible sector. if just one had done their job responsibly then this could have been avoided. You just need to rely on at least some people doing the job right. The fact that there were so many opportunities to still come back from this disaster and all of them were missed means that the whole system had 0 reliability which is absolutely insane.
I am sure the US/Japanese coast guard or the fisherman who helps can easily find a tool to break those windows only if they let them help freely and just let all the passengers float outside the ship while wearing a life vest, they can all safely float outside the ship while waiting for the boat to rescue them. I wonder what gives the Korean rescue team the idea to make them stay inside the ship while half of the ship is already underwater? like wtf? where is commonsense?.
A group of innocent children who were not involved in anything,paid with their lives ..💔
How many times have most of us done something we knew we shouldn't do when we are at work? Mostly to get production running at optimum despite company failings because we think we should help out and just maybe someone will recognise our heroic efforts. I don't defend the captain et al but these things happen every day, mostly they work out and sometimes not.
6:51 this was the most chilling part of the video
No matter what other side or background factors where involved here the captain is 100% to blame.
He is as his title suggests the captain and master of his vessel, he has the final authority and responsibility to safely guide his vessel.
He made unacceptable decisions, risked safety for profit, and is an absolute disgrace to the job.
in Russia this behavior called тяп ляп meaning "quickly and doesn't matter how",
WHICH MEAN STOP SHORTCUTTING AND MAKING PROFITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FOLLOW THE RIGHT ROUTE AND COMMUNICATION AND MAKING SURE WE FOLLOW ALL STRICT RULES AND REGULATION!!
470 people and they couldn’t even save half of them what a shame shows how slow and unprofessional they were !!! 💔
The captain chose a “ minimum work load “ euphemism for a lazy bastard !
Any country who allows this kind of tragedy to happen should immediately be eliminated from any government assistance.
Every American flagged passenger carrying vessel has a Stability Letter posted under glass in the wheelhouse required by the Coast Guard and checked by them during every annual inspection. I'm curious if S. Korea has something similar. That letter states in no uncertain terms the legal tonnage that can be loaded on a vessel and also states the ballast tanks and fuel tanks must be completely full before loading.
The relief captain was responsible for that aspect and placing a unqualified 3rd mate at the helm and going to bed is criminally irresponsible. That's the exact same error Hazelwood made on an oil tanker outbound from an Alaskan port. You know what happened there the only difference is one turned to hard and the other failed to turn at all.
The ages old story of profit superseding safety goes on and on because the owners only suffer a momentary monetary loss.
Totally agree after the accident its essential to take into consideration all the factors the pressure for profit, siphoning off money, possible corruption, work pressure on captain/crew, training & safety protocol, etc, however, at the actual time of the event the majority of those are irrelevant & about the only relevant issue at that juncture are the actions of the captain & crew, and tragically in this particular accident it would appear that it was more a case of inaction than action.
The students trusted the government that they will save them. But the government backstab them 😭
I guess the moral is, not to just focused on justice, but making sure it won't happen again. Learning from mistakes.
I think this is somewhat simplistic. You're not wrong that the issues are more complex than "blame the following parties and punish them". However, there should be some influence from professionalism; the rescue services in particular have much to answer for (you don't address their reasons for failing to even start some sort of rescue operation. Root cause analysis here says that the captain did a terrific job meeting the mandates of his company, but let's go to the map and recognize that the company's need for ever higher profits were of their own making, and would draw the ire of almost any reasonable population, and were the reason the captain felt the need to make ever more bricks with ever less straw. That is the kind of thing I, personally, cannot forgive. If my child had been on this ferry and died, I would have been baying for the head, not of the captain, but of the company president and board.
I hope they will learn from this disaster...
What we didn't know : The Sewol ferry was actually a very old boat that the Japanese used a long time ago.
I've heard of Captains like this before and that part doesn't surprise me, the part that does surprise me is the awful plan and handling of the children in the cabins that's what I thought was so cruel, it was like saying to them we need them to just stay out of our way in case we need a quick way to get out ourselves!!! That's what I'm thinking!!! I'm glad that the captain got a hell of a lot of time. And I wish alot of the people who handled the kids got just as much as the captain got that's pretty much murder, the way those people dealt with those poor children. Why didn't they get jail time??? Those poor people who are the parents of the children don't ever get to see there kids again, they deserve to have justice of some sort. And be as far as I'm concerned they better make it worthwhile for the parents at least. But everyone that was involved in the whole affair with the whole ship all the he way up to the coastguard should have been charged for incompetentcy, they especially knew what there jobs were and it was to save lives, did they? Doesn't look like it to me!!! And probably a whole lot of people as well!?? That whole senario was so sad and needless especially with the lives lost!!! God will be with your children spirit's and watching over your parents, blessed to the lord and his followers of angels!!! Amen!!!✝️🛐♾️❤️🇨🇦🎀🎄🎀🌈⭐☯️🛐✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️
I just cannot get my head around how horribly the ferry captain and crew as well as the Coast Guard reacted. With the ferry listing over 60 degrees and dead in the water, what could have possibly been gained to not order an abandon ship? The Coast Guard had no idea how to handle the scene. How is that even possible? I mean, even ordinary mariners would have done a better job and in fact they tried to but were ordered away from the scene by the Coast Guard! In America, there have been many incidents of vessels sinking. When the distress signal is sent, the Coast Guard will immediately notify all vessels in the vicinity to head to the scene and attempt rescue. That is, ALL vessels, tug boats, fishing boats, pleasure yachts, civilian day boats anything capable of providing assistance to the stricken vessel. Order them away from the scene? Unheard of. This isn't just an "American thing" but rather a long maritime tradition that every vessel on the water does its best to assist fellow mariners in peril.
Had the captain raised the alarm while telling the kids to come to the upper deck then I could see this as an attempt,
But as the footage shows the captain was the first to jump ship with no back up plan, if that is not murder then I don't know what is?