Boy and girl on Korean ferry drowned with life jackets tied together

[Jesus Malverde]

A boy and girl trapped in a sinking South Korean ferry with hundreds of other high school students tied their life jacket cords together, a diver who recovered their bodies said, presumably so they wouldn't float apart.

The diver had to separate the two because he could not carry two corpses up to the surface at the same time.

"I started to cry thinking that they didn't want to leave each other," he told the Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper on the island of Jindo on Thursday, near where the overloaded ferry went down last week.

The parents of the boy whose shaking voice first raised the alarm that an overloaded ferry was sinking believe his body has also been found, the coastguard said.

The parents had seen his body and clothes and concluded he was their son, but he has not been formally identified.

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[B2G]

1. They drowned with life jackets on?

How does that happen?

Heartbreaking.

[Jesus Malverde]

2. The students were told not to leave their areas while the captain and all evacuated.

The sense I got was they did not want 300 students moving around affecting the listing ship and told them to stay put.

The ship listed for a long time before it flipped and killed all the children.

[B2G]

3. My question was regarding the life jackets

How does one sink while wearing a life jacket?

[MattBaggins]

4. They were trapped when to boat flipped

Life vests don't help if you are trapped below deck and the boat flips

[Jesus Malverde]

6. thanks, seems obvious maybe I missed his question...nt

[TeamPooka]

5. Seriously? When the boat you are stuck in goes underwater.

[B2G]

7. Gotcha. Mulitasking does not help with comprehension skills.