Captain charged with seaman’s manslaughter in 2019 dive boat fire that killed 34

The captain of the P/V Conception, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based dive boat that caught fire last year near Santa Cruz Island resulting in the deaths of 33 passengers and one crewmember, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on 34 counts of seaman’s manslaughter.

Jerry Nehl Boylan, 67, of Santa Barbara, was named in the indictment returned yesterday by a federal grand jury that alleges Boylan, as the captain and master of the vessel, “was responsible for the safety and security of the...

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