Efforts to locate at least two dozen people missing from Costa Concordia intensified on Thursday. Search crews blasted holes in to the ship and brought in additional divers.
They've also changed their approach says Luca Cari, spokesman for the rescue teams.
SOUNDBITE: Spokesman for the firefighter units, Luca Cari saying:
"Today we used in another way of entering the boat from the top. Until now, we've tried to get in from the sea side but because we are worried about the bad weather coming, we tried this other method. In this case, even if the bad weather should make it impossible to come in from the sea side, we still can enter from the coastal side."
Rescue divers used torches to illuminate some of the ship's dark corridors. The large bell of the ship can be seen hanging from a submerged part of the vessel. The divers can also be seen at the cruise liner's large anchor on the sea floor.
Six days after the ship capsized off the Tuscan coast, hopes of finding anyone alive are slim. Increasingly cold weather and the ship's unstable position are complicating rescue efforts which continued after dark on Thursday.
Deborah Gembara, Reuters