Ship calamity: Too much payload helped sinking, police say

By Stella Kim, Jason Hanna and Ed Payne, CNN

Might 7, 2014 - Updated 1153 GMT (1953 HKT)

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Ship calamity created via freight over-burden

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

NEW: Not including the jumper, the calamity's passing toll ascents to 269

Approximately tied products helped reason the boat to overturn, specialists say

Ship conveyed more than double the payload weight it was permitted, police say

Jumper kicks the bucket throughout recuperation operation Tuesday

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) - The South Korean ship fiasco that killed more than 260 individuals a month ago was brought on partially by intemperate freight and a disappointment to secure that load appropriately, the joint police and arraigning group exploring the debacle said Tuesday.

It denoted the first run through South Korean specialists said what they accept prompted the April 16 sinking of the ship Sewol, which was convey 467 travelers and team - including more than 300 secondary school learners on a field trek - when it overturned.

Specialists said they've prosecuted four workers of the ship's holder, Cheonghaejin Marine Co., in the most recent two weeks, including a senior official Tuesday. Insights about the charges weren't quickly accessible.

Powers targeted the load Tuesday, saying its weight was more than twofold as far as possible.

The load wasn't tied legitimately - and the inexactly tied merchandise helped reason the boat to upset, senior prosecutor Yang Joong-jin said.

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"The lashing gadgets that ought to have held freight products unfaltering were detached, and a percentage of the group parts did not even know" how to utilize them accurately, Yang said.

Examiners had been examining the likelihood the boat toppled in light of the fact that payload moved and constrained the boat reeling.

No less than 269 individuals kicked the bucket in the catastrophe, which happened while the ship was setting out from Incheon to the resort island of Jeju, off South Korea's southwestern coast. Thirty-five individuals still are unaccounted for, as per the nation's coast monitor.

Authorities: Firm got $2.9 million for additional freight since '13

Tuesday's news came about a week after South Korean powers looked Cheonghaejin Marine's work places as a major aspect of a criminal examination.

This excursion wasn't the first run through the ship had abundance payload, the joint examination group said Tuesday.

Since the Sewol started the Incheon-Jeju course in March 2013, the ship conveyed overabundance payload 139 times, specialists said.

Cheonghaejin Marine earned an additional 62 million South Korean won ($62,000) for the overabundance payload on the April 16 voyage, and almost 3 billion South Korean won ($2.9 million) in additional benefit for the greater part of the abundance load that the ship conveyed since March 2013, examiners said.

Jumper passes on as quest for bodies proceeds

The bleak undertaking of recovering bodies from the sunken ship was managed a frightful blow Tuesday when an accomplished jumper lost awareness and kicked the bucket.

In any case the about 130 jumpers kept brushing the boat notwithstanding the misfortune of their associate, recognized as Lee. His full name was not given.

Five minutes into his swoop, he clearly had issues with his oxygen supply.

"When his partners went to spare him, Lee was oblivious and unable to inhale independent from anyone else," government representative Koh Myung-suk said.

Lee had been swooping for 30 years, authorities said.

Since the first day when numerous got away from the sinking ship, nobody has been discovered alive.

Throughout the weekend, South Korean President Park Geun-hye went by the port where the salvage operation is based to support families and empower jumpers.

Corralling the trash has been troublesome for hunt groups.

Beddings and clothes from the boat have been found up to 9 miles (15 kilometers) far from the mishap site, said Park Seung-ki, a representative for the salvage operation.

Vast stow and trawler nets will be set up around the submerged boat to get things that may glide away, he said. In the meantime, nearly three dozen boats will be clearing an oil slick from the ship, which is debilitating the business of the nearby anglers.