Ship search finds 12th body, captain’s documents

January 21, 2012 at 10:39p.m.

GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Divers plumbing the capsized Costa Concordia’s murky depths pulled out the body of a woman in a life vest today, while scuba-diving police swam through the captain’s cabin to retrieve a safe and documents belonging to the man who abandoned the cruise liner after it was gashed by a rocky reef on the Tuscan coast. Hoping for a miracle — or at least for the recovery of bodies from the ship that has become an underwater tomb — relatives of some of the 20 missing appealed to survivors of the Jan. 13 shipwreck to offer details that could help divers reach loved ones while it is still possible to search the luxury liner. The clock is ticking because the craft is perched precariously on a rocky ledge of seabed near Giglio island.