A capsized Chinese fishing vessel was found in the waters west of South Korea on the 21st. South Korean coast guard is diligently engaged in the search and rescue operation.

However, there was another case, the Eastland, a ship that capsized in Chicago Harbor in 1915, and it killed 841 people that was 14 more than the passenger toll of the Titanic.

More recently, some 500 migrants died off the coast of Malta, when a group of human traffickers responded to the passengers refusal to move onto smaller vessels by deliberately ramming the boat that had carried them from Egypt. Less than a week later, dozens of asylum seekers perished when their boat capsized near the Libyan coast.