Relatives of the two missing victims of the Costa Concordia shipwreck have been taken to the cruise ship, as authorities prepare to restart search efforts for the missing bodies.
Thirty-two of the 4229 people who were on board died, but the remains of Russel Rebello, an Indian waiter, and Maria Grazia Trecarichi, an Italian passenger, remain unaccounted for.
They are assumed to be inside the hull.
Rebello's brother Kevin and Trecarichi's husband Elio Vincenzi and daughter Stefania were taken to the site of the disaster by port authorities on Wednesday.
They threw flowers into the sea when they got close to the Concordia.
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They returned with some ropes from the wreck.
"They helped save many lives. We asked if we could have them and they said yes," Elio Vincenzi said.
Kevin Rebello said he expected searches on the Concordia to resume by the end of the week.
"Tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow. Scuba divers have been ready since yesterday. We are all waiting and hoping," he said.
The cruise liner crashed against a reef and partly capsized near the Italian island of Giglio on January 13, 2012.
It was this week righted in a major engineering feat, as part of a risky and expensive salvage operation that is expected to end by mid-2014.
