Around 280 people are still missing a day after a South Korean passenger ferry carrying high school students on holiday listed to one side, tipped over, and went belly-up.  Some of the 179 survivors said passengers were ordered to stay where they were and await rescue as the disaster unfolded.

South Korean Coastguard and Navy divers got back in the water early this morning to rescue the search and (hopefully) rescue.  The US Navy also dispatched a ship to the scene to assist.

Video has emerged showing passengers wearing life jackets sheltering in place and waiting for rescuers.  It seems counter-intuitive, but those were the instructions coming from the loudspeaker.

“We were told to stay where you are, so we kept staying," survivor Hyun Hung Chang told the South Korean YTN news network.  “But later on, the water level came up.  So we were beside ourselves.  Kids were screaming out of terror, shouting for help.”

There’s disagreement about how many of the missing might actually still be alive, possibly trapped in air pockets inside the capsized “Sewol” Ferry.

South Korean Prime Minister, Chung Hong-won, said there was not “a minute or a second to waste” in the search for survivors.  He was later heckled at a gymnasium where families had gathered to await word of loved ones.  But security official Lee Gyeong-og said, “There is so much mud in the sea water and the visibility is very low.”

Survivors described feeling a bump or impact of some sort, which goes along with earlier speculation that the ships ran into some underwater rocks off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula.  Six people are confirmed dead.  At least some of those who jumped or made their way to the top of the ship were rescued.  Helicopter crews plucked some from the deck.