AIS and voyage data
Physical
Track and turn data fix the morning manoeuvre in the Maenggol Channel and the growing list.
The criminal file is rich: track, cargo, audio and a recovered ship.
What is thinner is a single agreed minute-by-minute of the first Coast Guard decisions.
Exhibits
Rebuild and stability papers
Document
Conversion drawings and stability calculations were compared with the ship as sailed. Investigators treated the 2012–13 rebuild as a cause, not a backdrop.
Cargo and ballast records
Document
Overload and under-ballast findings supported the conclusion that the turn could not be recovered.
Cabin announcements
Testimony
Survivors and recovered audio established the stay-put instructions that the Supreme Court treated as decisive.
Raised hull, 2017
Wreck
The intact-enough hull allowed a delayed interior survey and a search for the still missing.
Gwangju and Supreme Court opinions
Inquiry
The 2015 appellate and final judgments are the legal statement of homicide by wilful negligence.
How strong is the record?
Crew-conduct record90
Departure without evacuation is densely evidenced and fully tried.
Stability and cargo file82
Rebuild and load findings are consistent across investigation bodies.
Rescue-command timeline68
Who could have entered the hull, and when, remains more contested than the capsize physics.
Owner-network paper60
Chonghaejin’s group structure was partly mapped; Yoo’s death cut a criminal thread.
Evidence was sufficient for a life sentence. It was not sufficient to end argument about the state.
Public-record encyclopedia. Not legal advice. Not a how-to. Graphic detail is withheld. Wars belong in a separate atlas.