JINDO, South Korea: Four days after South Korea's shattering ferry disaster, grieving relatives were split Sunday over whether to approve an end to the search for survivors and let cranes raise the vessel to the surface.
There are five giant floating cranes at the scene, but President Park Geun-Hye gave her personal assurance to the families of the hundreds still missing that salvage operations would only begin after all hope of finding survivors was extinguished.
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