(CNN) - Recordings between the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship and the Livorno Port Authority, which is part of the Coastal Guards, have given new insight into what happened on the ship when it hit rocks Friday night just off Italy's western coast.
A total of 23 people remain missing following the wreck, which led to 11 deaths, Italian officials said Tuesday. Capt. Francesco Schettino is under arrest and may face charges that include manslaughter, shipwreck and abandoning a ship when passengers were still on board, according to an Italian prosecutor.
Below are several transcripts of recordings between authorities and the captain published by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera and translated by CNN's Hada Messia:
Livorno Port Authorities: "Concordia, we ask you if all is OK there."
Concordia: "All is well."
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Port authority: "Concordia, We ask you if all is well there."
Concordia: "All is well. It is only a technical failure."
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Port authority: "How many people are on board?"
Schettino: "Two-three hundred"
Port authority: "How come so few people? Are you on board?'
Schettino: "No, I'm not on board because the ship is keeling. We've abandoned it."
Port authority: "What? You've abandoned the ship?"
Schettino: "No. What abandon? I'm here."
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Italian Coast Guard Capt. Gregorio De Falco: "Captain. This is De Falco from Livorno."
Schettino: "Commandant, I've also alerted the company... I'm being told that there are still passengers on board, apparently they are about one hundred... but I repeat..."
De Falco: "Captain. You are not able to tell me an exact figure? About a hundred people, it seems?
Schettino: "Commandant, I am not able to give you an exact figure because let me explain... while we were evacuating the last passengers... now we are all here with all the officers..."
De Falco: "Where are you? On the lifeboats? All the officers?"
Schettino: "Yes, we are with the second commander..."
De Falco: "Forgive me, but before you were only with a sailor. If the officers managed to get down, it means that they could still move."
Schettino: "Yes...in fact...
De Falco: "Then why don't they get back on board? To monitor the operation and then they can tell us. Thank you."
Schettino: "No it is not possible..."
De Falco: "Send them on board. Send one person on board to coordinate..."
Schettino: "But I am doing the coordination."
De Falco: "I'm giving you an order captain. You need to send someone on board."
Schettino: "We are going on board to coordinate."
De Falco: "Exactly. You need to get on board to coordinate the evacuation. Is that clear?!"
Schettino: "But we can't get on board now...the ship is now...(hard to understand)..."
De Falco: "Why did you tell them to get down?"
Schettino: "What do you mean get down? We abandoned the ship...the ship turned ..."
De Falco: "...and with one hundred people on board you abandon the ship? (expletive)"
Schettino: "I did not abandon any ship with 100 people...the ship (hard to understand)...we were catapulted into the water..."
De Falco: We'll see later what happened. OK? Now tell me everything that takes place. Everything. Get under with the lifeboat (not very clear at this point). Don't move. Clear?"
Schettino: "Commandant..we are here...we are here..."
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Port authority: "You must return on board. Climb the ladder (rope ladder), return to the fore (stem) and coordinate the work."
Schettino does not reply
Port authority: "You must tell us how many people are on board, how many women, how many children. You have to coordinate the rescue operation. Commander, this is an order. Now I'm in charge, you have abandoned ship and now you are going to go to the stem and coordinate the work. There are already dead bodies."
Schettino: "How many?"
Port authority: "You should be the one telling me this...What do you want to do? Do you want to go home?...Now go back on the stem and tell me what to do.."
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Port authority: "Listen, this is De Falco from Livorno. Am I speaking with the captain?"
Schettino: "Yes."
Port authority: "Tell me your name."
Schettino: "This is Captain Schettino, commandant."
Port authority: "Listen Schettino, there are people trapped on board. Now, you have to go with your lifeboat and go under the boat stem on the straight side, there is a ladder there."
Port authority: "Get on board on the ship and tell me, you tell me how many people there are."
Port authority: "Clear? I'm recording this conversation, Captain Schettino."
Schettino: "Well then commandant, I need to tell you something."
Port authority: "Speak loudly."
Schettino: "The ship now...I'm here in front of it..."
Port authority: "Captain, speak loudly."
Schettino: "Commandant, at this moment the ship is tilted."
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