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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Rescue effort continues on sunken cruise ship

Divers of the Nucleo Operatori Subacquei Guardia Costiera (Coast Guard) conduct a SAR (Search and Rescue) operation that that led to the discovery of the body of a woman inside of the ship Costa Cooncordia on January 21, 2012 in Giglio Porto, Italy. More than four thousand people were on board when the ship hit a rock off the Tuscan coast. According to reports on January 22, 2012 complications have arisen establishing the exact number of missing passengers due to unregistered passengers that may have been onboard the vessel. Around 20 are believed to still be missing, with the official death toll now standing at 13.