Third survivor heard on sunken cruise ship

Rescuers reached two trapped honeymooners in the interior of a cruise ship more than 24 hours after it ran aground off a picturesque Italian island, killing three people, injuring 20 and leaving dozens unaccounted for.
The South Korean passengers, each 29, heard searchers calling out on the Costa Concordia, Italy's ANSA news agency reported early Sunday. They were located in a cabin and taken ashore. Video showed them being taken to a waiting ambulance.
The captain of the ill-fated vessel, which turned over on its side after the grounding, was arrested late Saturday and was being investigated for abandoning ship and manslaughter, a local prosecutor said.
With perhaps up to 50 people unaccounted for, divers suspended their efforts at dark, with plans to resume the search in the azure waters off the island of Giglio at dawn Sunday.
Accounts of the chaos from many of the 3,200 passengers were reminiscent of a maritime disaster 100 years ago this April -- the loss of the RMS Titanic.


The disaster happened just hours after the ship had left the port of Civitavecchia near Rome at the start of a Mediterranean cruise that was meant to take it to Savona in north-west Italy and then on to Marseille and Barcelona.
Within 24 hours of the accident, Italian prosecutors detained the captain of the cruise ship, 52-year-old Francesco Schettino, and first officer Ciro Ambrosio.
Italian media reports that Mr Schettino faces possible charges of multiple homicide and abandoning ship before all passengers were rescued.
He has worked for the cruise company, Costa Crociere, for 11 years and faces questions as to how his ship steered towards disaster in calm seas and on a well-mapped route.
Grosseto prosecutor Francesco Verusio told reporters the captain "approached Giglio Island in a very awkward way, hit a rock that stuck into its left side, making (the boat) list and take on a huge amount of water in the space of two or three minutes".
Earlier in the day, the captain told Italian television that the vessel had hit a rocky spur while cruising in waters which, according to the charts, should have been safe.


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