Jansing and Co   |  January 17, 2012

Five more bodies pulled from cruise ship

NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports from Giglio Island, Italy where divers have removed five more bodies from the wreckage of the sinking cruise ship.

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>>> well, today there's been a lot going on. just moments ago, a group of special divers found five more bodies inside the ship's wreckage, raising the official death toll to 11. meantime there's growing outrage against the captain after an italian newspaper published a pretty shorking transcript of a phone call between him, who was apparently on shore and port officials. there's a long exchange with officials ordering him to get back on the ship and help save people.

>> the passengers were helping each other, the ones that are doing it, they're the cooks, the waiters, the housecleaning people. where's the officers? they're all gone. they're not there.

>> michelle kosinski is on giglio island with the latest.

>> reporter: as you said they were able to pull five more victims. we knew their plan, they were blowing these small holes, using explosives into the hull, as the best way to gain access. what they were looking for in particular they said was the first officer's room, where they expected to find the bodies of some victims. at this point we haven't gotten any more information, if there's more coming out from some other source, we haven't seen it yet in terms of whether the victims were crew members or passengers, where they're from, any more detail. it's been a busy scene. there are dozens and dozens of divers, special teams with the italian navy . some of them have been able to give us details. it seems like now they're trying to clamp down what comes out, but they're relentless, working nonstone. in this little old a tiny village on this small island , you see the villagers walking around and then crowds of people in dive suits, kind of all mingled together, wlb as if the entire island has broadband a rescue mission . michelle kosinski on giglio island , thank actual