GIGLIO, Italy, Jan 17 (Reuters) – A stricken Italian
cruise liner shifted on its rocky resting place as worsening
weather disrupted an increasingly despairing hunt for survivors
and authorities almost doubled their estimate of the number
missing to 29 people.

As the Costa Concordia’s owners accused their captain of
veering too close to shore in a bravura “salute” to residents of
a Tuscan island, the giant ship slid a little on Monday,
threatening to plunge 2,300 tonnes of fuel below the
Mediterranean waters of the surrounding nature reserve.

GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) – A stricken Italian cruise liner shifted on its rocky resting place on Monday as worsening weather disrupted an increasingly despairing hunt for any survivors among some 16 people still missing.

As the Costa Concordia’s owners blamed their captain for veering shorewards on Friday in a bravura “salute” to residents of a Tuscan island, the giant ship slid a little, threatening to plunge all its gigantic carcass and 2,300 tonnes of fuel below the Mediterranean waters of the surrounding nature reserve.

GIGLIO, Italy, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Rescue workers
searching the half-submerged hulk of an Italian cruise ship for
missing passengers and crew recovered a sixth body on Monday,
more than 48 hours after the vessel capsized off Italy’s west
coast.

The captain of the 114,500-tonne Costa Concordia, arrested
on Saturday, was accused of manslaughter and abandoning his ship
before all of the more than 4,200 people on board had been
evacuated.

GIGLIO, Italy, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Rescue workers
searched the half submerged hulk of a capsized Italian cruise
ship for 14 people still missing on Monday, more than 48 hours
after the huge vessel capsized, killing at least six and
injuring more than 60.

Three people, a South Korean honeymoon couple and a member
of the ship’s crew, were rescued on Sunday and police divers
also recovered the bodies of two elderly men, still wearing
emergency life jackets.

GIGLIO, Italy, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Italian rescue
workers searched the hulk of a partially submerged cruise ship
for 15 people still missing on Monday, more than two days after
the huge vessel capsized, killing at least five people and
injuring more than 60.

The captain of the 114,500 tonne Costa Concordia was
arrested on Saturday, accused of manslaughter and abandoning his
ship before all of the more than 4,200 passengers and crew had
been evacuated off the west coast of Italy.

GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) – Residents of the Italian island of Giglio opened their doors to shipwrecked passengers and rescue teams and worked round the clock to keep them fed and warm after a giant cruiseliner capsized in their quaint port.

While many of the more than 4,000 passengers of the liner Costa Concordia were bitterly critical of the ship’s crew, they were full of praise for the inhabitants of Giglio where they were washed up in the early hours of Saturday morning.

GIGLIO, Italy, Jan 15 (Reuters) – Divers found the
bodies of two elderly men inside a capsized cruiseliner on
Sunday, bringing the known death toll from a spectacular
accident off Italy’s coast to five, with another 70 people
injured.

Divers and other rescuers were painstakingly checking
thousands of cabins on the Italian liner Costa Concordia for 15
people still unaccounted for after the huge vessel foundered and
keeled over with more 4,229 passengers and crew on board.

GIGLIO, Italy, Jan 15 (Reuters) – A South Korean
honeymoon couple and an injured crewmember were plucked from a
capsized Italian liner on Sunday, more than a day after it was
wrecked, as rescue workers struggled to find any others still
trapped on board.

Teams were painstakingly checking thousands of cabins on the
Costa Concordia for people still unaccounted for after the huge
vessel foundered and keeled over with more than 4,000 on board,
killing at least three people and injuring 70.

PORTO SANTO STEFANO, Italy (Reuters) – About 40 people were still missing Sunday more than 24 hours after an Italian cruise ship with more than 4,000 on board capsized off Italy’s west coast, killing at least three people and injuring 70.

The captain of the luxury 114,500-tonne Costa Concordia was being held in jail accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, Italian police said.

PORTO SANTO STEFANO, Italy (Reuters) – At least three people were killed and rescuers were searching for other victims after an Italian cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground and keeled over in shallow waters.

Dozens were injured and around 50 people remained unaccounted for after the 114,500-tonne Costa Concordia hit a sandbar near the island of Giglio off the coast of Tuscany as passengers sat down to dinner on Friday evening.