Recovery Operations

This picture released on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 by the Italian Space Agency (A.S..I.) and taken on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, about nine hours after the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground the Tuscan tiny island of Isola del Giglio, Italy, shows the hulk of the ship surrounded by rescuers and investigators boats. AP / Italian Space Agency

An excellent video narrative of the final track of Costa Concordia by Captain John Konrad is found at:

http://gcaptain.com/gcaptains-john-konrad-narrates-the-final-maneuvers-of-the-costa-concordia-video/?37941

He also provides a critique of the incident, "The 3 Most Fatal Mistakes" at:

http://gcaptain.com/costa-concordia-3-fatal-flaws-that-led-to-disaster/?37976

This aerial black-and-white video image shot with an infrared camera and made available by the Italian Coastguard Tuesday Jan. 17, 2012 appears to show passengers of shipwrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia slipping down the belly of the luxury liner one-by-one using a rope to reach a lifeboat, bottom left, late Friday Jan. 13, 2012 off Giglio Island, Italy. AP / Italian Coastguard