Nineteen days after the cruise ship Costa Concordia crashed onto the rocks off the isalnd of Giglio, near Italy, Italian officials have finally released a list of the confirmed dead and missing. This comes one day after divers gave up searching for additional bodies in the wreckage due to weather and changing tides.
There are 17 confirmed dead, and 15 missing and presumed dead. Those not marked as crew were passengers on the ship.
Confirmed Dead:
- Maria Dintrono, Italy, 30
- Giovanni Masia, Italy, 85
- Luisa Antonia Virzi, Italy
- Sandor Feher, Hungary, 38, crew
- Horst Galle, Germany
- Gabriele Grube, Germany
- Egon Hoer, Germany
- Inge Schall, Germany
- Josef Werp, Germany
- Siglinde Stumpf, Germany
- Jeanne Gannard, France
- Pierre Gregoire, France
- Jean-Pierre Micheaud, France, 61
- Francis Servil, France 71
- Guillermo Gual, Spain, 68
- Thomas Alberto Costilla Mendoza, Peru, crew
- Erika Fani Soria Molina, Peru, 25, crew
Unaccounted for, presumed dead:
- Barbara Heil, United States
- Gerald Heil, United States
- Dayana Arlotti, Italy
- William M. Arlotti, Italy
- Maria Grazia Trecarichi, Italy
- Girolamo Giuseppe, Italy, crew
- Elisabeth Bauer, Germany
- Christina Mathi Ganz, Germany
- Norbert Josef Ganz, Germany
- Margarethe Neth, Germany
- Margrit Schroeter, Germany
- Brunhild Werp, Germany
- Michael M. Blemand, France
- Mylene Litzler, France
- Russel Terence Rebello, India, crew
In a related story, relatives of the only missing US citizens announced today they'll hold a memorial service.
The Star Tribune reported that the family of Gerald and Barbara Heil, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota will plan a memorial soon.
In a blog posting, the family wrote that "we are certainly disheartened... but understand and accept the decision to bring the search operation to a halt".
Attached to this article is a slide show showing as many of the dead and missing that we could find pictures for. If you have access to any pictures missing, please email them to us at editor@thecruisepaper.com.
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