Italy cruise ship disaster: cries of honeymoon couple stuck in cabin His mother, Giovanna Lazzarini, 78, said she had only been able to speak to her son for a few minutes but hearing his voice was "like being born again." "He told me that his leg was a bit injured, but that he was OK," she said from her home near La Spezia in north-western Italy. Speaking to him was like being given a second life. If they'd told me he was dead, I would have died myself. As soon as I found out he was alive, I burst into tears. I prayed all day and all night that he would be saved. Passengers compared the scenes of chaos and panic, and the inadequate warning they said was given for the ship to be evacuated, to the sinking of Titanic nearly 100 years ago. Video footage of the disaster showed dozens of plates falling off tables, skittering along the floor of one of the ship's restaurants and smashing against walls. The Concordia, which cost €450 million (£372 million) to build, was at the start of a week-long tour of Mediterranean ports when it hit a rock off Giglio. The South Korean couple were found, dazed but unharmed, in their cabin in a dry section of the ship in the early hours of yesterday. Divers from the Italian coastguard and fire service ventured into the parts of the ship that were underwater and found the bodies of two elderly men inside the hull, bringing the death toll to five. Both were wearing life jackets and were found floating in a restaurant area towards the back of the ship. Their names and nationalities were not released. Cosimo Nicastro, of the coastguard, said rescuers were "hopeful" that other passengers or crew would be found alive inside air pockets within the ship. But divers faced a range of hazards as they swam inside the bowels of the cruise liner, including large floating objects such as mattresses and bits of carpet which could get snagged in their equipment, he said. The size of the ship, and the fact that it is tilted at an angle of nearly 90 degrees and half-submerged, is also making search efforts very difficult. Luca Cari, of the fire service, likened it to "a floating city" and said divers were painstakingly checking the 1,000ft-long vessel cabin-by-cabin, probing their way through the darkness. Giglio's tiny port, which is lined with cafes, shops and fishermen's houses, was crowded with tug boats, rubber dinghies and lifeboats from the cruise ship. Authorities said that 15 people remained unaccounted for, including passengers and members of the crew. Some of the missing are thought to be crew from Asian countries such as Indonesia, India, Bangladesh and the Philippines, who may not have understood instructions to abandon the ship. "The gash in the hull is at the level of the machine room, which means that all the crew's cabins are under water," said Sergio Ortelli, the mayor of Giglio.