Weekend Brings Discovery of More Bodies, Albertville Family Waits

More than a week after a captain's decision to steer the Costa Concordia close to the Tuscan shore in a "salute" the island of Giglio, Italy, the parents of teacher Aaron Heil have not been found.

Barbara and Gerald Heil, of White Bear Lake, have strong ties to this community, with the couple's son living in Albertville and teaching in St. Michael. The two, on a "dream vacation" sailing around Italy, are presumed lost at this point.

According to an Associated Press article, two more bodies, both women, were found in an Internet Cafe on the ship over the weekend.

The recovery of the two makes it 17 officially missing since the Jan. 13 accident, when the Concordia rammed a reef and sliced its hull with 4,200 on board.

Divers will continue to work on the ship in earnest now. Officials from Italy have said the ship is not in danger of moving any longer, and crews can even begin pumping millions of gallons of fuel from the ill-fated ship.

Two of the Heil's children toured the wreckage site by boat Saturday, and tossed flowers into the water to pay homage to the victims, according to the AP and Minneapolis Star Tribune. The Tribune story had a photo of John Heil, Aaron's older brother, in Italy.