Divers enter capsized ROK ferry in hunt for survivors

A team of eight divers had entered a capsized ferry of Republic of Korea (ROK) on Friday and was searching for survivors. South Korean news agencies and television channels said. YTN television said that divers had searched the dining hall and cafeteria of the vessel, where many of the passengers, mostly high school students, were at the time of Wednesday’s accident. The ship is now fully submerged in waters about 25 km (15 miles) off the southwestern coast of ROK. Earlier in the day, investigators said that the 69-year-old captain may not have been on the bridge at the time the vessel heeled sharply and then capsized. “He (the captain) may have been off the bridge.. And the person at the helm at the time was the third officer,” Park Jae-eok, an official investigating the accident, told a news conference in Mokpo, a city close to the port where rescue operations are being conducted, according to Reuters.