Italy's Maritime Ministry Director Comments on Costa Concordia Tragedy ROME, JAN. 18, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Search and rescue efforts are still under way as 21 passengers from the Costa Concordia cruise ship remain unaccounted for, after the giant vessel hit rock and began sinking Friday off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. As friends and family of the missing still await news of their loved ones -- including a Catholic couple from Minnesota who were excited about the chance to visit Rome during their two-week vacation -- public eye is turned on the tragedy and particularly the national soul-searching related to the captain's response to the wreck. Among those intimately involved in the disaster are the personnel from the Church's ministry to seafarers. Father Raffaele Malena was the chaplain on board and lived the wreck firsthand. Another priest, Father Lorenzo Pasquotti, parish priest on the island of Giglio, provided assistance to the survivors as they l...