Photos: South Korea ferry sinks with 476 people aboard

Yoo Dae-gyun, eldest son of the sunken ferry’s owner, is surrounded by reporters at the Incheon district prosecutors’ office in July. A South Korean court convicted three relatives of the owner and other associates of corruption, about four months after the owner was found dead. Yoo Dae-gyun was sentenced to three years in prison. (Han Jong-chan / Associated Press)

An unidentified family member of passengers aboard the sunken ferry Sewol cries in October as she demands maximum punishment for the crew members during their trial in Gwangju, South Korea. (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)

Family members of passengers aboard the sunken ferry Sewol wipe away tears Nov. 7 after South Korea’s National Assembly in Seoul approved plans to disband the coast guard in the wake of criticism over its failure to rescue hundreds of passengers when the ferry sank. (Lee Jin-man / Associated Press)

Portraits of the victims of the sunken South Korean ferry Sewol are seen with yellow ribbons at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul in October. (Jung Yeon-je / AFP/Getty Images)

Relatives of victims of the South Korean ferry sinking stage a sit-in protest demanding a meeting with President Park Geun-hye on a street near the presidential Blue House in Seoul. (Jung Yeon-je / AFP/Getty Images)

A bereaved man clutches a portrait of the daughter he lost in the ferry sinking as he joins families of other victims in a protest near the presidential house in Seoul. (Kim Chul-soo / EPA)

In an image taken with a mobile phone by Park Su-hyeon, one of the South Korean high school students lost in the accident, and released by his father, students are shown in life vests inside the ferry before they realized it was sinking. (Park Su-hyeon / Associated Press)

In video clips from the cellphone of victim Park Su-hyeon that were released by his father, teenagers unaware of the danger talk of taking selfies, wonder if they’ll make the news and discuss posting about the excitement later on Facebook. (Park Su-hyeon / Associated Press)

An image from the mobile phone of sinking victim Park Su-hyeon taken aboard the ferry. (Park Su-hyeon / Associated Press)

Students at the Ansan Olympic Memorial Hall weep and attach messages to an altar that offer their wishes for the safe return of those aboard the sunken South Korean ferry. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)

In Ansan, South Korea, flowers sit on the desks of Danwon High School students killed in the sunken ferry Sewol. (Yonhap / AFP/Getty Images)

Search and rescue teams take part in recovery operations at the site of the sunken ferry Sewol off the coast of the South Korean island of Jindo. (Ed Jones / AFP/Getty Images)

A man pays tribute at a group memorial altar for victims of the ferry disaster off Jindo Island in South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)

People hold candles at a vigil for students killed when a South Korean ferry capsized. (Kim Doo-Ho / AFP/Getty Images)

Flares light up the sea as South Korean coast guard vessels conduct recovery operations at the site of the sunken ferry Sewol off the coast of South Korea. (Ed Jones / AFP/Getty Images)

Bodies of passengers aboard the Sewol ferry, which sank in the water off the southern coast, are carried by rescue workers upon their arrival at a port in Jindo, South Korea. Divers continued the work of recovering bodies from inside the sunken ferry Monday, as a newly released transcript showed the ship was crippled by confusion and indecision well after it began listing. The transcript suggests that the chaos may have added to a death toll that could eventually exceed 300. (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)

A relative of a passenger aboard the sunken ferry Sewol, which is in the water off the southern coast, watches the official list of the dead victims at a port in Jindo, South Korea, on Monday. (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)

A relative of a passenger onboard capsized South Korean ferry Sewol weeps in an area where family members of victims of the disaster are gathered at Jindo harbor. (Nicolas Asfouri / AFP/Getty Images)

A South Korean army medic assists a family member of missing passengers on the sunken ferry Sewol at Jindo gymnasium on Jindo Island in the southwestern province of South Jeolla, South Korea. (Jeon Heon-Kyun / EPA)

South KoreaNavy’s Underwater Demolition Team members work during a search operation for missing people at the site of a ferry sinking off Jindo port on Jindo Island in the southwestern province of South Jeolla, South Korea. (Kimimasa Mayama / EPA)

South Korean Coast Guard officers conduct a rescue operation around the passenger ferry Sewol sinking in waters off the southwestern coast of South Korea. (Yonhap / EPA)

A woman cries at a port in South Korea near where a passenger ferry sank with hundreds on board. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)

An aerial photo shows rescue operations for passengers aboard a South Korean ferry that capsized. Nearly 300 people were missing. (Yonhap / AFP/Getty Images)

South Korean Coast Guard officers conduct a rescue operation around passenger ferry Sewol, sinking in waters off the coast of South Korea. (South Korea Coast Guard / EPA)

A still image taken from video shows a helicopter rescue of passengers stranded on a ferry sinking off South Korea’s southern coast near Jindo, south of Seoul. (Yonhap / Associated Press)

Relatives of missing passengers of the South Korean passenger ferry that sank Wednesday gather at a gym in Jindo to await news from rescue teams. (Jung Yeon-Je / AFP/Getty Images)

South Korean Coast Guard officers conduct a rescue operation around the passenger ferry Sewol, sinking off the southwestern coast of South Korea. (South Korean Coast Guard / EPA)

A mother weeps as she and others search for their children’s names among a list of survivors rescued from a ferry that sank off South Korea’s southern coast. (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)

A child rescued from the sinking passenger ferry Sewol receives medical attention from doctors at a port on Jindo Island, South Korea. (Yonhap / EPA)

An injured passenger is transported by rescue workers after passenger ferry Sewol sank in waters off South Korea’s southern coast. (Yonhap / EPA)

Relatives wait for news of those missing after a passenger ferry carrying 459 people sank off of South Korea’s southern coast. (Jung Yeon-Je / AFP/Getty Images)