Italian emergency officials say they are calling off a search for missing people in the submerged part of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, due to the danger to rescue workers.
Experts can begin pumping fuel from a capsized cruise ship as early as Tuesday to avert a possible environmental catastrophe and the ship is stable enough to let search efforts go on for those still missing, Italian officials said.
Italian officials say divers have pulled out a woman's body from the capsized Costa Concordia, raising to 13 the number of dead in the Jan. 13 accident off the Tuscan island of Giglio.
Italian Coast Guard divers have found a woman's body in a corridor of a submerged section of the capsized Costa Concordia, raising to at least 12 the number of dead in the cruise liner accident.
Carnival Corp., the parent company of Costa Cruises, has announced a comprehensive audit and review of all safety and emergency response procedures across all 10 of the company's cruise lines.
The lawyer for the captain of the cruise ship that ran aground off Italy says the captain is "deeply shaken" by the loss of his ship and the loss of lives.
Mike Stoll and Addie King, a married couple who live just a few blocks from the Manasquan River, were in calm waters off Tuscany chatting over risotto and potato and leek soup in the second-floor dining room of the cruise ship Costa Concordia.
A couple from Brick was among those aboard the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia when it began to sink off the Tuscany coast and survived to tell their story.
During the 6pm hour yesterday Jeff and Bill were discussing the Costa Concordia cruise ship that is shipwrecked off the Tuscan coast. The guys ripped the Captain for making such a poor navigational decision but also for leaving the vessel prior to all of the passengers being rescued!