A total "of 29 persons, 4 crewmembers and 25 passengers" are still missing in the wreckage on Friday of "Costa Concordia, said Monday in a television program the commanding general of the Italian Coast Guard.
"An hour ago I received a report of the prefecture of Grosseto (center), and 29 people missing," said Marco Brusco.
So far the number of missing was registered by the authorities 15. According to Brusco, 10 Germans and 6 Italians would be among the missing.
Italian Rescuers suspended their search Monday night at the Costa Concordia.
The nationalities of the others were not reported missing, but the U.S. State Department launched a search for an American couple, Gerald and Barbara Ann Heil.
Rescuers have so far announced they were searching for two Americans, four Italians, two French couples and six crew members.
The search for the missing was carried out late with powerful projectors, but the tasks were interrupted at night.
Italian firefighters found in the morning the body of a passenger with a life jacket was still emerged at the second bridge of the ship. This is the sixth died, but has not yet been identified.
The luxury cruise nearly 300 feet long capsized on Friday night after hitting a rock towards 21H30 (20H30 GMT), with 4229 people aboard, including more than 3,200 tourists from 60 countries and a thousand members crew, including many Peruvians, Colombians and Central Americans.
The more than 4,000 evacuees were transferred on Saturday from the island of Giglio to the port of Santo Stefano, and then mostly repatriated to their places of origin.
Among the missing figure Peruvian Erika Soria, 25, who was part of the crew. His family asked not to stop the search.
The wreck killed up to now six people dead, including four tourists, two French, one Italian and one Spanish, William Gaul, as well as a Peruvian crew, Tomas Alberto Mendoza Costilla, 49, who died by drowning.
While analyzing the consequences of the wreck, still coming testimonies of survivors, such as Argentina María Inés Judge Lona, who escaped by swimming 60 meters up a cliff on the island of Giglio.
The judge blamed the captain of the cruiser, Francesco Schettino, crash against a rock.
At the disputed charges are added for mishandling the evacuation because it does not know precisely the number of people missing.
Authorities United States and Germany launched appeals for the whereabouts of an American couple and a dozen Germans.
The Italian authorities also fear an ecological disaster and believe that the ship with 2380 tons of fuel on board is a kind of "bomb" in one of the most sensitive environments in the Mediterranean.
The Italian Minister of Environment, Corrado Clini, called for "urgent action" to prevent oil spillage carrying the boat.
"The whole area is at high risk," the minister said, recalling that the archipelago of Tuscany is one of the most protected areas in Italy. It was declared a marine park since 1996 and is known to be a whale sanctuary.
Bad weather can complicate recovery of fuel, though so far not been poured, but Monday saw the first spots of an oily film around the ship, without having been able to determine whether it is fuel.
A team of experts from the Dutch company Smit & Salvage and Salvage Titan U.S. company came to the island to study solutions and has ordered the installation of panels or filters to deal with a possible oil spill.
Clini Minister and many environmentalists have proposed to prohibit the passage of these mammoth ships through sensitive areas, including the Grand Canal in Venice and the Tuscan Archipelago.
For the president of Costa Crociere, the new path he decided to take the captain was "an own initiative and not on the written rules and certified" by the company.
While the commander of the ship as the main figure responsible for the tragedy, the commissioner on board is the "hero", having been rescued after 36 hours aboard the ship with a broken leg after helping dozens of passengers to save.
"I did my duty," he said from the gurney.
Costa Crociere recognized that the wreck immediately affect the company, which reported Monday a decline of 16.4% on the London Stock Exchange.
Before the tragedy, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) canceled the planned launch in London of a series of events to commemorate the centenary of the sinking of "Titanic" in April 1912.