London and the monthly meeting of the Sewol Ferry Disaster a community action takes place monthly , this is the fifth year since the disaster which , occurred on the morning of 16 April 2014, when the passenger/ro-ro ferry was en route from Incheon towards Jeju in South Korea. The South Korean ferry sank while carrying 476 people, mostly secondary school students from Danwon High School (Ansan City). The 6,825-ton vessel sent a distress signal from about 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) north of Byeongpungdo at 08:58 Korea Standard Time (23:58 UTC, 15 April 2014) In total, 304 passengers and crew members died in the disaster. the tags where of the students names and form place , in total another two names where added , one was a diver who died during salvage , and the ferry captain who took his own life ,
Of the approximately 172 survivors, more than half were rescued by fishing boats and other commercial vessels that arrived at the scene approximately 40 minutes after the South Korean coast guard