UpdateCellphone video depicts students joking before sinking of South Korean ferry
Cellphone depicts light-hearted banter, with one person saying scene was 'getting like the Titanic'
A cellphone video of students aboard a South Korean ferry minutes before it capsized and sank shows them laughing and joking about the Titanic as the Sewol began to list.
The initially light-hearted exchanges are rendered all the more poignant by the fact that the video was taken by a 17-year-old student whose body was later recovered from the submerged ferry, along with his cellphone.
"Hey, rescue me," jokes one male student, while another suggests the video would be "fun to put on Facebook" later.
"It's getting like the Titanic," says another as the Sewol begins to list further to one side.
The in-built timer shows the student, Park Su-hyeon, began recording at 8.52am on April 16, several minutes before the crew sent out the first distress signal.