A stricken Italian cruise liner shifted on its rocky resting place on Monday as worsening weather disrupted an increasingly despairing hunt for survivors and authorities raised their estimate of the number missing to 29 people.
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 its whole gigantic carcass and 2,300 tonnes of fuel below the Mediterranean waters of the surrounding nature reserve.
Firefighters rappel from a helicopter over the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island January 16, 2012.ReutersThe Costa Concordia cruise ship is seen after it ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island January 15, 2012. ReutersA 13th body was recovered from the Costa Concordia on Sunday. ReutersA view shows the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island January 15, 2012.ReutersRescuers stand in a boat next to the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island January 15, 2012.ReutersA view shows the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship lying on its side after being holed by a rock off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island January 15, 2012ReutersThe capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship is seen from a rescue vessel near Giglio, Italy, January 13, 2012 in this still image taken from an amateur video shot by a German passenger and obtained January 14, 2012. ReutersRescue workers climb on the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island January 16, 2012. ReutersThe Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground off the west coast of Italy, near Giglio island on Jan. 13. ReutersRescue workers inspect the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island January 16, 2012. ReutersA view shows the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island January 15, 2012.ReutersAn Italian Coast guard diver inspects the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island January 16, 2012.ReutersRescue workers inspect the side of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island, January 16, 2012. ReutersA view shows the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship lying on its side after being holed by a rock off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island January 15, 2012. ReutersRescue workers inspect the side of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island, January 16, 2012. ReutersThe Costa Concordia cruise ship is seen off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio Island January 16, 2012. ReutersA person recovered from the Costa Concordia cruise ship is lifted into a helicopter with the help of Italian rescue workers after the cruise ship ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island January 15, 2012.
ReutersThe Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island is seen, January 16, 2012.ReutersPeruvian crew member Erika Soria poses in front of the Costa Concordia cruise ship in this undated handout photo. Erika is one of the missing people from the Costa Concordia cruise ship after it ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island.ReutersAn oil removal ship is seen next to the Costa Concordia cruise ship as it ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island, January 16, 2012. Reuters
