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Updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 0:08 am TWN, By Gavin Jones and Antonio Denti, Reuters



	A fire services helicopter flies over the partially submerged Costa Concordia ship on Monday, Jan. 16 off the coast of the Isola del Giglio. The owner of the luxury liner that ran aground off the coast of Italy, killing at least six people, said its captain had made “errors of judgment” as the search continued for the missing. (AFP) More Photos (2)

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Captain held as Italian cruise ship toll rises to 6

GIGLIO, Italy -- 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-ton 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.

Francesco Schettino's employers, Costa Crociere, said he appeared to have made “serious errors of judgment” and had brought the ship too close to shore where it struck a rock that tore a large hole in the hull.

The disaster occurred as passengers were sitting down to dinner on Friday night, triggering scenes of panic with passengers jostling to get on lifeboats and some leaping into the icy sea.

Divers combing the vessel for 16 people unaccounted for said conditions had deteriorated since the weekend. “The sea is much rougher today, it's much more difficult to work,” one said.

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. The bodies of two French tourists and a Peruvian crew member were found on Saturday.

A sixth body, that of an adult male passenger, was found just before dawn on Monday, officials said.

Passengers say there were unexplained delays in organizing the evacuation of those on board and this had resulted in chaos. More than 60 people were injured.

The vast hulk of the 290-meter-long ship, lying on its side, loomed over the little port of Giglio, an island in a maritime nature reserve off the Tuscan coast.

A large gash could be seen in its hull but salvage experts said its fuel tanks did not appear to have been damaged, lessening the danger of an oil spill in the pristine waters.

Giuseppe Linardi, prefect of the city of Grosseto, told reporters the number of those unaccounted for stood at 16 but that could change slightly as passenger lists were rechecked.

Paolo Tronca, a fire department official, said the search would go on “for 24 hours a day as long as we have to.”

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