Divers looking for the last two victims of  Costa Concordia, found human bones on Thursday under the sea.

AFP Francesca Maffini, spokeswoman for the Civil Defense Agency, which is overseeing the search operations confirmed that the bones are human,.

"They were on the outside of the ship, in a part of the seabed that was exposed when the vessel was raised," she explained.

Sources of Civil Defense reported that they will have to wait conducting DNA tests to determine if the remains are from the two people who are still missing, the waiter Indian Russell Rebello and Italian tourist Maria Grazia Trecarichi. 

The husband Trecarichi, Elio Vincenzi, and brother Rebello, Kevin Rebello, visited the island several times since the incident and are very well received by the community when they appear.

The Italian news agency ANSA reported that the bones were found near the ship's deck number four. On deck number four were located lifeboats and was the site where many of the other victims were found.

"Judging by where they were found, the remains can be of two victims," said Franco Gabrielli, head of the Civil Defense Agency, told reporters on the island.

The captain of the ship, Francesco Schettino, is currently judged by multiple manslaughter, abandoning a ship before all passengers were removed and causing extensive environmental damage.

The hearings will resume on October 7, with a long list of prosecution witnesses to testify.

Four other crew members and an executive of the company Costa Crociere which owns the ship, has been convicted, but need not go to jail by Italian law, since their sentences are less than three years.

The company Costa Crociere is also no longer involved in criminal proceedings, after the payment of one million euros (1.3 million dollars) in fines and after accepting the limited liability by employing crew members accused, although being sued by dozens of survivors through the civil courts.

Desperate passengers were forced to jump into the icy waters in the dark and swim to shore and crawl the exposed hull to expect help, after some lifeboats did not work.

Victims of the disaster included an Italian five-year, one Peruvian waitress who gave her life jacket to a passenger Hungarian musician who returned to pick up his precious violin and two Americans from Minnesota who ended up far away from your dream vacation. Altogether, the wreck killed 32 people. The vessel was only chipped seabed last week, in a complicated operation that lasted 19 hours.

Gabrielli said the recovery of bodies after nearly 20 months submerged under the weight of a vessel of 114,500 tons was "almost a miracle". According to the Civil Defense, the families of the two victims have been informed about the discovery of the remains.