Jerry Nehl Boylan, 70, the captain of the Conception, the Santa Barbara-based dive boat involved in the deadly 2019 fire that cost 34 lives, was yesterday sentenced to 48 months in federal prison.
The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge George H. Wu. A restitution hearing was scheduled for July 11.
Conception dive boat fire: Captain guilty of seaman’s manslaughter
In November last year, as we reported at the time, at the conclusion of a 10-day trial, a jury found Boylan guilty of one...
The captain of a Santa Barbara, California-based dive boat that caught fire and sank near Santa Cruz Island in 2019, resulting in the deaths of 33 passengers and one crewmember, has been sentenced to 48 months in US federal prison, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday, May 2. Jerry Nehl...
The captain of the Conception, the dive boat that caught fire in 2019 with the loss of 34 lives, was yesterday found guilty of seaman’s manslaughter.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California reports that a jury found Jerry Nehl Boylan, 69, of Santa Barbara, Calif., guilty of one count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer – an offense commonly called “seaman’s manslaughter” – a federal offense punishable by up to 10 years in federal prison.
According to evidence...
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“Our intent with these safety compliance checks is to bridge gaps that were identified following the fire...
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...
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...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NSTB) has scheduled a board meeting for October 20, 2020, to consider the agency’s investigation of the fatal September 2, ..