The government has resumed efforts to bring the Sewol ferry to a port after works were suspended for the whole day on Wednesday due to treacherous weather conditions at sea.
 
The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said on Thursday that it resumed work at 8:50 a.m. to remove the wing towers of the semisubmersible ship onto which the Sewol is being fixed.
 
The ministry said it has removed two of the four wing towers and is now working to remove the remaining two wing towers as well as the structures supporting them.
 
Since Tuesday, the ministry has suspended welding work aimed at fixing the ferry to the semisubmersible ship after it found several pieces of bone suspected to belong to the nine missing victims of the Sewol. The remains, however, turned out to be that of an animal.
 
The removal of the wing towers had also been suspended since late Tuesday due to waves reaching up to two-point-two meters high.
 
Once the wing towers are removed the semisubmersible ship will carry the Sewol to a port in Mokpo on the southwestern tip of Korea, sailing 105 kilometers for eight hours.
 
When the semisubmersible arrives in Mokpo, the Sewol will be separated from it and moved onto land, while seawater and oil mixture are drained from inside of the ferry.