TORONTO - The Concordia rammed a reef Jan. 13 on the tiny Tuscan island and capsized a few hours later just outside Giglio's port with several thousand aboard for a Mediterranean cruise. On Wednesday, officials confirmed 8 more bodies were found including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl.
Global News looks at some of the numbers emerging from the Costa Concordia cruise disaster:
Number of people onboard when ship ran aground: About 4,200 people, most of them Italian passengers. The 12 Canadians on board made it out safely.
Total death toll: 25 bodies have now been found and 18 of those have been identified.
Number of passengers and crew members still missing: 7 people are still missing.
READ MORE: List of dead or missing from the Costa Concordia cruise ship
Latest news development: On January 31, Italy's Civil Protection agency said that technical studies indicated the deformed hull of the ship created too many safety concerns to continue the search within it. Relatives of the missing and diplomatic officials representing their countries have been informed of the decision, it said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for Civil Protection, Francesca Maffini, stressed that the search for the missing would continue wherever possible, including on the part of the ship above the water, in the waters surrounding the ship and along the nearby coastline.
Earlier this month, prosecutors accused Capt. Francesco Schettino of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning his ship before all passengers were evacuated during the grounding of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. In an audio conversation released shortly after, Capt. Gregorio De Falco of the Italian coast guard in Livorno repeatedly orders Schettino to return to the ship to oversee the evacuation, while Schettino resists, making excuses that it's dark and that the ship is listing.
Schettino faces a possible 12 years in prison if convicted of the abandoning ship charge alone.
Preliminary losses from having Concordia out of operation (at least through 2012): Between $85 million and $95 million, along with other costs. The company's share price slumped more than 16 per cent on January 16.
What’s next for Concordia? Italian authorities had already begun shifting their focus from finding the missing to preventing an environmental disaster. The ship contains about 500,000 gallons (2,400 tons) of heavy fuel and other pollutants, and fears are growing that those pollutants could spill out, damaging a pristine environment that is home to dolphins, whales and other marine life.
Franco Gabrielli, the head of Italy's civil protection agency, has it could take a full seven to 10 months once a contract is awarded to remove the 950-foot-long (290-meter) ship, raising deep concerns among residents who make their living from fishing and tourism.
Other Costa Concordia facts: According to Continental Airlines, the ship’s name, Concordia, symbolizes peace and harmony among many different peoples, and pays homage to Europe and some of its more important cities including Paris, Rome and London.
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