Oil recovery experts return to the harbor of the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, after docking a barge to the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia, in the background, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. The barge will serve as a staging platform for the removal of the 500,000 gallons (1.9 million liters) of heavy fuel oil that are aboard the ship. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
Oil recovery experts return to the harbor of the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, after docking a barge to the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia, in the background, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. The barge will serve as a staging platform for the removal of the 500,000 gallons (1.9 million liters) of heavy fuel oil that are aboard the ship. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
An oil recovery expert wears a scuba diving equipment during preparations to work on the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. The ship contains about 500,000 gallons (2,400 tons) of heavy fuel and other pollutants. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
The grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia lies on its side, off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. The ship contains about 500,000 gallons (2,400 tons) of heavy fuel and other pollutants. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
ROME (AP) ? An Italian court refused Tuesday to lift an order of house arrest for Francesco Schettino, the captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off a Tuscan island last month.
The court in Florence rejected two requests: one from prosecutors to jail Schettino and another from Schettino to be freed.
Schettino commanded the ship with 4,200 people that ran aground off the island of Giglio on Jan. 13, killing 17 people and leaving 15 missing. He is being investigated for suspected manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the vessel before all its passengers were evacuated.
The ship remains partly submerged off Giglio.
Officials plan to remove about 500,000 gallons (2,400 tons) of heavy fuel from it, but that has been delayed by rough seas and bad weather. Once the fuel is withdrawn, the massive ship will be broken into pieces and taken away ? a process that could take many months.
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