18 January 2012 Last updated at 17:31

In pictures: Costa Concordia search and rescue

A scuba diver rests on the rocks as he looks at the Costa Concordia cruise ship (18 Jan 2012)

A search and rescue operation is continuing around the stricken luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the coast of Italy on Friday.

Scuba divers inspect the interior of the Costa Concordia cruise ship through a breach in a window (18 Jan 2012)

Scuba divers have entered the ship through holes blasted in it to try to find survivors.

A firefighter hangs from a chopper over the Costa Concordia cruise ship (18 Jan 2012)

Other rescue workers have reached the ship from helicopters.

The confirmed death toll is now 11. More than 20 people are still missing.

Chairs lie against rail on submerged deck of the Costa Concordia (picture taken 16 Jan 2012)

Chairs piled against a rail on the submerged part of the deck give a clue to the chaos and devastation that quickly overtook passengers and crew when the luxury ship listed violently and then foundered.

Night time images show passengers and crew bring rescued from the stricken ship

These grainy infrared images taken on Friday show people escaping down the side of the ship.

Rescuers work on the cruise ship Costa Concordia as lies stricken off the shore of the island of Giglio, on January 17, 2012

The angle of the ship after it ran aground made it impossible to launch some of the lifeboats.

Police inspect one of the holes in the side of the ship (January 17, 2012)

The ship's captain has been blamed for steering the vessel on to the rocks.

Captain Francesco Schettino of cruise ship Costa Concordia is led out of a vehicle as he escorted into a prison at Grosseto, 17 January 2012

He is under house arrest and could face charges of manslaughter, shipwreck or abandoning ship. He denies this and says he saved scores of lives.

Meanwhile, booms are being placed around the ship to prevent oil and other debris leaking into the waters near the island of Giglio.

Rotterdam-based SMIT salvage workers prepare their work of diesel recovery from the the cruise ship Costa Concordia (18 Jan 2012)

Workers from the Rotterdam-based firm Smit Salvage are expected to start pumping fuel off the ship in the next few days.

The cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on its side off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012

The Costa Concordia had been carrying more than 4,200 people when it hit the rocks.

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In pictures: Costa Concordia search and rescue

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