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The BBC's Alan Johnston: "A German couple, survivors... said they wanted to look into the captain's eyes as he heard the allegations put to him"
Italian experts are due to reveal the data from the black box of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which capsized after hitting rocks near an island in January killing 32 people.
A judge will then decide whether there should be a criminal trial.
The ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, has appeared for the first time at an inquiry into the disaster.
He is accused of causing a shipwreck, manslaughter and abandoning ship before all passengers were evacuated.
He has defended his actions, saying many more would have died without his interventions.
Capt Schettino has not been ordered to attend this hearing, he has chosen to come, says the BBC's Alan Johnston in Grosseto, where the hearing is being held.
He has said he wants to be able to confront those who have been building the case against him.
Court-appointed experts have already heaped blame on the captain for sailing his huge ship too fast and too close to the shore at night.
Already knownThe pre-trial investigation into the sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship is entering its final phase.
For months, experts have been dissecting the smallest details of this disaster, and at last they are ready now to set out their findings, formally, before a judge, our correspondent says.
But much of what the experts will tell the judge is already known as their report has been made public.
Capt Schettino had been trying to carry out a spectacular, night-time, sail-past salute to people on the tiny island of Giglio, the experts say.
He and eight others, including three executives from owner Costa Crociere, are under investigation, and the report was commissioned in order to help the court determine whether they should be put on trial.
In public statements, Capt Schettino has accepted a degree of responsibility.
He has apologised, asked for forgiveness and wept during a television interview as he talked of those who died.
But the captain argues his actions in the immediate aftermath of the collision with the reef saved many lives.
He says he managed to steer his stricken vessel close into shore, preventing it from sinking in deep water where hundreds might have drowned.
The experts also say some blame for the way the disaster unfolded must be attached to the cruise ship company's, shore-based, crisis management team.
It should have had a better understanding of what was going on - and it should have given the captain better advice, our correspondent adds.
Nine people are currently under investigation, including three executives from owner Costa Crociere and Capt Schettino.
No trial is expected until the beginning of 2013 at the earliest.
Meanwhile, the shipwreck remains in the water off the Tuscan coast. Salvage crews are working to stabilise and refloat the hulk, which is expected to be removed by spring 2013.
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