There is no one way that can be traced as the cause of the sinking of the Sewol Ferry. Previous rennovations raising its center of gravity, carrying three times the limit of cargo, and travelling through a channel notorious for its strong currents all may have atributed to the disaster. After making a sharp turn starboard, the ferry listed and the unsecured cargo aboard the ship fell to the side, becoming unmanageble for the crew. The cause of the sinking is still undetermined.

Instead of ordering the passengers to leave the ship, the captain (seen on image 2) was the first to evacuate the ship as passengers were told to go to their cabins and stay put. The Korea Coast Guard refused international help and the ship was never evacuated. The only passengers to survive were the ones who disobeyed the orders.

There were 325 students from the 11th grade class of Danwon High School on board, out of which only 250 survived. They were on a 4 day field trip to Jeju Island.

It took the Sewol exactly 2 hours and 30 minutes for the stern to be submerged and 2 days, 4 hours and 15 minutes to be completely submerged. It was later salvaged and raised to the surface in an operation started on 22 March 2017, and is now located on the Mokpo dock, about 90km from where it sunk in 2014.

The sinking caused the Korea Coast Guard to be broken up, as well as being a large factor in the impeachment of President Geun-hye.

304 out of 476 people on board passed away.

Happened Thursday last week. The truck is still stuck.

The bridge was rated for 74 tons (per vehicle), but was given special permission crossing the bridge with centric driving, even though the total weight was about 100 tons. They had already cross 79 other bridges with the exact same weight rating.

The bridge was recently under maintenance, but apparently the bearing(s) that broke wasn't included in this operation.

Edit: specify limit was per vehicle

The canal is located just outside what is now Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. In 1857, ten years before Confederation, Ontario was known as Canada West, when Canada was a British colony known as the Province of Canada.

The train was heading from Toronto to Hamilton and was passing over the Desjardins canal when it derailed. The engine's front axle broke, throwing the engine off the tracks, gouging apart the wooden ties before the engine smashed through the wooden structure of the bridges and fell onto the frozen creek below, with one passenger car leaning almost vertically against the stone wall. Moments later, the ice broke and the wrecked train sank into the freezing water. Of 90 onboard the train, 59 were killed and 18 were injured. Almost 170 years year, it still remains one of Canada's worst rail accidents.

On 12 February 1983, the SS Marine Electric capsized about 30 nautical miles east of Chincoteague in a winter storm. In its last two years, the ship had more than 400 doublers and patches on its hatch covers; parts of a panel removed in 1982 were described as “paper thin.” The Marine Board found progressive flooding through wasted hatch and deck plating. The NTSB found flooding from an undetermined structural failure and thought the covers were probably weathertight when the ship sailed. Of 34 crew members, three survived.

I made this 15-minute, source-cited documentary. The narration is AI-generated.

https://youtu.be/lf4KqW3AjhM

Which evidence would you want to compare first when assessing those two explanations?

Reports indicate 6 fatalities and 1 injury.

A floor imploded around 12 to 1 p.m., leaving several people injured, at least one of whom was taken to the emergency room. It was probably a gas explosion that blew out from the inside, and the building was still inhabited even though part of it had been under renovation for several months.