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STORIES of heroics from the crew of a ferry that sank in South Korea are beginning to emerge, despite outrage from the public who are branding them "cowards".

Blame has fallen largely with the captain, pictured left[AP ]

It has been almost a week since the ferry which was carrying 476 people sank, leaving more than 100 dead and a further 200 missing.
Some 323 of those on board were high school students.
Public anger was quickly levelled at the captain, Lee Joon-seok, who fled the sinking vessel in one of the first rescue boats to arrive at the scene after ordering passengers to stay in their cabins and taking at least half an hour to organise an evacuation.
He and two crew members have been arrested, accused of negligence and abandoning people in need.
The country's President, Park Geun-hye yesterday described the actions of the captain and some of the crew as "unforgivable" and "murderous".
Six other crew members have been detained though prosecutors have yet to obtain arrest warrants for them.  
But conflicting reports of the conduct of the crew are starting to emerge, some of who gave their lifejackets to passengers and refused to leave until all students were off the ship.
Others worked from rescue boats to break windows with hammers and pull people trapped in cabins to safety.  
At least seven of the 29 crew members are missing or dead, and several of those who survived stayed on or near the ship to help passengers.
One of the first bodies recovered was that of 22-year-old crew member Park Ji-young, who helped students evacuate the stricken boat until the last minute, even though she wasn't wearing a life vest.

We did hard work, but no media are talking about that

Crew member

Passengers said she had told students that crew members must stay on the ship until everyone else leaves, and that she would follow them after helping passengers.
The wife of missing crew member Yang Dae-hong said her husband's last words to her were in a mobile phone call, in which he said: "I'm on my way to save the kids."
Oh Yong-seok, a 57-year-old helmsman, said he and four crew members worked from nearby boats to smash windows on the sinking ferry, dragging six passengers stuck in cabins to safety.
He told how he and a first mate - who is one of those detained - used his knowledge of the ship's layout to help direct rescuers as they worked to pull passengers off onto rescue boats.
He described how he and his colleagues remained at sea trying to help until an official who appeared to be from the coast guard asked them to head to land.
Speaking from hospital where he is being treated for an injury to his foot, He said: "We did hard work, but no media are talking about that.
"Instead, they say all crew members fled."
He went on to say that he was struggling to understand the actions of the captain, who some describe as kind-hearted.
He told how the captain had fallen into an iron door while the ship was listing, and thought he might have left the ferry as a result of his injuries.
But he was then was surprised to see him walking without problems on television.
He said: "The captain should have stayed there, even if it meant his death."
One crew member under investigation, an engineer, locked himself in a hotel room on Sunday night after telling fellow crew members he was going to kill himself.
However, when police entered the room, but the engineer appeared to be unhurt.
The engineer was among the two crew members detained Tuesday, prosecutor Yang Jung-jin said.
He had been held by the coast guard on Monday, but it was claimed it was for his own safety.