Search of Costa Concordia Resumes Massimo Percossi/European Pressphoto Agency Rescue teams departed the Costa Concordia cruise ship off Italy's coast after an early operation on Saturday. GIGLIO, Italy - A week after the Costa Concordia ran aground off Giglio Island in Tuscany, divers resumed their search of the wreckage on Saturday after suspending their work the day before because of shifting by the ship. The search for the more than 20 people still missing cannot be carried out if the ship is not stable because the rescuers would be in danger. The $450 million ship, owned by a subsidiary of Carnival Cruise Lines, apparently departed from its normal route on Jan. 13 and struck rocks that tore a gash in the hull. At least 11 people have been confirmed dead. Early on Saturday, rescuers started blowing new holes in the ship's hull, an operation that allows divers to access the submerged part of the ship more easily. Firefighters inspected a dry area of the ship overnight, getting through the narrow corridors from the cabin's windows to examine sections of the bridge. Morning efforts focused on parts of the bridge around the assembly point, where five bodies were retrieved on Tuesday. After a week in the cold January waters, it is very unlikely that more survivors will be found. Among the most recent items recovered from the ship were a Madonna and baby Jesus from the ship's chapel, retrieved Thursday night and early Friday. A search of the shipwreck was suspended for most of Friday, after the wreckage shifted about 12 centimeters, about 5 inches, toward the open sea, prompting fears the ship could roll off a rocky ledge and fall deeper into the sea. There are also fears that the Costa Concordia's fuel could leak, polluting the pristine Tuscan waters around the island. The ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, 51, is under house arrest at his home in Naples as prosecutors prepare formal charges that are likely to include manslaughter and abandoning ship. Captain Schettino has been vilified by his employer and much of the news media for crashing the ship, failing to notify the coast guard promptly and climbing into a lifeboat while hundreds of the 4,200 passengers and crew were still scrambling to escape. Captain Schettino's lawyer has said that his client saved "hundreds, if not thousands" of lives because he brought the ship close to shore after it hit a rock. After supporting Captain Schettino in the initial hours after the shipwreck, Costa Cruise CEO Pier Luigi Foschi spoke of "human error," but also granted legal assistance to the captain. Later in the week the company suspended Captain Schettino, withdrew legal support for him and declared it would be an "injured party" in the prosecution, a move that would allow it to seek damages in the case of a guilty verdict. On Friday, while the company faced growing criticism in the media for underestimating the scale of the emergency, Mr. Foschi said on Italian television that Captain Schettino did not provide information on the gravity of the disaster, either to the company or to the crew, after the ship struck the rocks. Captain Schettino said only that he had "problems" on board but did not mention hitting a reef. Likewise, Mr. Foschi said crew members were not informed of the scope of the emergency. In amateur video made public on Friday, crew members were telling passengers to go to their cabins as late as 10:25 p.m., more than 30 minutes after the ship had struck the rocks. The call to abandon ship sounded just before 11 p.m. An audiotape of the Concordia's first contact with maritime authorities following the collision has a Concordia officer repeatedly saying that the ship had experienced a blackout, even though it had hit the reef more than half an hour earlier. In an interview published by the La Repubblica newspaper, the ship's doctor, Sandro Cinquini, recounted the final moments of panic on the sinking ship in the early morning hours of Jan. 21. He said he kept calm because he could see the shore nearby, but some passengers were jumping into the dark waters. "I am not sure who gave the abandon ship signal, nobody was following orders or procedures in the end," he said. People had abandoned the ship well before any order. Among the missing are two Americans, Gerald and Barbara Heil, a retired Minnesota couple married for 43 years. Members of the Heil family published an online statement on Friday thanking Italian and American authorities for help in trying to locate the couple.