One hundred-eighty-one people have now been confirmed dead in the sinking of the ferry and one-hundred-twenty-one others remain missing.
In waters off Korea's southwestern coast... where the accident happened.. search-and-rescue operations are now into the tenth day.
Not a single survivor has been found since the ferry capsized last Wednesday morning.
For the latest, we now go live to our Song Ji-sun , at Paengmok-hang Harbor - the nearest point of land to the accident site.
Ji-sun.

The rescue operation continues... although currents in the area are forecast to get stronger again from today. Twenty-two more bodies were recovered from Thursday to this morning-- and the death toll now well exceeds the number of survivors... standing at 1-hundred-81... with 1-hundred-21 still missing underwater.
The divers focused their search on the third floor where the cafeteria is...and on the fourth level of the ship, where the cabins of most Danwon High School students were located.
Divers also said there were no air pockets present inside the sunken ferry...reducing the chance of possible survivors after the ship submerged completely underwater.
But the search will continue... as parents of the missing have requested the ferry not to be lifted out of water until every body is recovered from underwater.
Five cranes are on stand-by but no one assumes the lifting will take place any time soon.

And, Ji-sun,... we understand that the families' frustration with the search operation has boiled over... there was a row between the parents and the authorities there. Can you tell us more?

Yes,... exhausted and angry parents of the Danwon High School students are showing very, very strong distrust of the ongoing search-and-rescue operation.
They sat down with the oceans minister and the coast guard commissioner from Thursday evening... questioning him for hours about whether enough was... and is.. being done.
The parents want more diving distance lines to be installed on the fourth deck of the sunken ferry where most students are expected to be... and they are demanding more civilian divers be brought into the operation.
Families of the missing are convinced the authorities did not go forward with the rescue operation as they had been told... and it's pretty clear, at this point, that private divers who volunteered to take part in the rescue operation -- pulled out after conflicting with the Navy and marine divers.
Parents want them back in the water as they think there are not enough divers out there to recover the bodies of their children.
There are also allegations the authorities only allowed a certain private company to dive.... and that company reportedly has links to the ferry's operator Cheonghaejin.
The oceans minister has been talking with the families since around 5.p.m. Thursday afternoon... and the parents are demanding he stay on site until the last student is brought back on shore.
They are not allowing press inside the tent... but some parents are reportedly out on the waters on the barge where divers engage in search operation... and are demanding each and every process is reported to them immediately, on-site.
This was Song Ji-sun reporting live from Paengmok-hang Harbor in Jindo.

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