Giglio, Italy (CNN) -- Divers trying to locate survivors of the Costa Concordia cruise ship used explosives to blow a hole in the hull to make an entry and exit point for search-and-rescue teams, Italian Navy officials said Tuesday.
The announcement came on the same day that the country's Coast Guard said it has located the second "black box," or data recorder, from the Costa Concordia cruise ship that wrecked off Italy's western coast, killing at least six people.
Operations were underway to retrieve the recorder, said Warrant Petty Officer Massimo Macaroni of the Italian Coast Guard.
Information from the device, along with that from another that has already been recovered and is being analyzed by prosecutors, will provide authorities with "a complete picture of how the disaster unfolded," Macaroni said.
Meanwhile, an Italian newspaper printed excerpts of a conversation between the captain and Coast Guards on shore during the incident.
Captain Francesco Schettino gave contradictory answers about whether he had abandoned the ship, prompting authorities on shore to instruct him to return to it.
"Commander, this is an order. Now I am in charge. You have abandoned ship," the unnamed Coast Guard says, instructing him to go back to the vessel and coordinate rescue efforts.
Prosecutor Francesco Verusio confirmed that the partial conversation printed in Corriere della Serra matched a transcript prosecutors had.
Authorities will question Schettino at a closed hearing on Tuesday, his attorney said.
Schettino is under arrest and may face charges that include manslaughter, shipwreck, and abandoning a ship when passengers were still on board, Verusio said.
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At the closed hearing, a preliminary investigation judge will decide whether Schettino will remain detained. The captain has not yet been questioned, but more than 100 witnesses, including passengers and crew, have been interviewed, the prosecutor said.
The captain's attorney, Bruno Leporatti, said in a statement Monday that Schettino was "shattered, dismayed, saddened for the loss of lives and strongly disturbed."
But, he said, Schettino is "nonetheless comforted by the fact that he maintained during those moments the necessary lucidity to put in place a difficult emergency maneuver ... bringing the ship to shallow waters." That move, Leporatti said, saved the lives of many passengers and crew members.
Italian prosecutors have ruled out a technical error as the cause of the incident, saying the captain was on the bridge at the time and had made a "grave error."
source:edition.cnn.com
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