South Korea ship: Third officer 'had the rudder'

The third officer was in charge of the ship that upset off South Korea, agents said, as jumpers attempted to get to the sunken frame.

What added up to 268 individuals - including scores of secondary school understudies - remain lost after Wednesday's calamity.

Twenty-eight individuals are currently known to have kicked the bucket and 179 were protected.

It is not clear why the ship sank, yet specialists have proposed it either hit a rock or turned forcefully, unbalancing the vessel as load moved.

The vessel - named Sewol - had been going taken away Inchon, in the north-west, to the southern hangout island of Jeju. It overturned and sank inside a time of two hours, authorities said. The ship sank inside two hours - it is still not clear why it upset

  has been under way. Terrible climate, poor perceivability and solid ebbs and flows hampered the jumpers' inquiry on Thursday.

Rescue work

The powers now say that jumpers have figured out how to get to the extension and restaurant of the stricken vessel, he includes, yet a large number of the understudies were thought to have been trapped on an alternate floor.

Air was additionally now being infused into the boat, two reports said, both to help any individuals trapped inside - however authorities have said that survivors are improbable - and to help refloat the vessel.

Coast monitor authorities, cited by AFP, say the bodies got were discovered drifting in the water, and none had been recovered from the boat itself.

Three rescue cranes have additionally landed at the scene, to raise the boat or move it to an alternate territory with weaker flows.

The BBC's Martin Patience, who is at the scene, portrayed "a totally urgent advancement for the families" as three more bodies were accumulated from the salvage site on Friday.

Many boats and several jumpers have been brought into the hunt exertion

"We will audit the choices precisely, as the rescue operations may harm survivors ambuscade inside," Yonhap newsgroup posting org cited a coast caretaker officer as saying.

In the mean time, specialists have expressed that the chief of the ship, Lee Joon-seok, was not in control when the ship ran into inconvenience.

"It was the third officer who was in charge of controlling the boat when the mischance occurred," state prosecutor Park Jae-Eok told columnists.

"Whether they took an exceptional turnaround... is under examination," he said.

"Despite the fact that surviving groups have distinctive confirmations about the circumstances, we've been researching the chief as he was suspected to leave the guiding space for an misty reason," Mr. Park included. Witnesses have blamed the group for advising travelers to remain where they were, as opposed to empty the sinking boat.

Messages and telephone calls from those inside painted a picture of individuals trapped in gathered passageways, unable to escape the extremely posting ship.

Exactly 350 of those ready for learners from the same secondary school in a suburb of Seoul who were on a field trek.

Their relatives have bear a long sit tight for news - their anguish aggravated by clashing data about amounts of survivors issued at an opportune time.

In an open explanation issued on Friday, groups of the missing called for more pressing movement.

"No one let us know about what happened and what was going on out there. There was not even a circumstance room in control by a minute ago Wednesday," an operator said.

"Our youngsters might be yelling for help in the solidifying water," he said. "If its not too much trouble help us spare our youngsters."