Sparks flew from recharging cell phone aboard doomed dive boat

Crewmembers told investigators that they had not participated in a fire drill aboard the dive boat Conception and one said he saw sparks when he recharged his cell phone just before the fatal fire that killed 33 passengers and one crew, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) documents released Wednesday show.

The 104 entries in the docket range from reports and witness interviews to the Certificate of Inspection (COI) for the 75’x25′ wooden hulled boat built in 1981 that burned to the...

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