The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board this week will hold a board meeting to consider the agency’s investigation of last year’s fatal fire aboard the dive boat Conception off Santa Cruz Island, California. The 75-foot commercial diving vessel, with 33 passengers and six crew aboard, was...
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NTSB Opens Investigation Docket Into Fatal Conception Dive Boat Fire
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has opened the public docket as part of its ongoing investigation of the fatal fire aboard the dive boat Conception off Santa Cruz Island, California last year. The 75-foot commercial diving vessel, with 33 passengers and 6 crew members, caught fire...
Bill Seeks to Improve Small Passenger Vessel Safety After Deadly Conception Boat Fire
In the aftermath of the Conception dive boat fire which claimed the lives of 34 people, Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representatives Salud Carbajal and Julia Brownley, all Democrats from California, have introduced a bill to update what they call “antiquated” and grandfathered-in safety laws...
Owners of Conception Dive Boat Suspend Operations Amid Fire Investigation
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES, Oct 1 (Reuters) – The owners of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the California coast on Labor Day, killing 34 people, said on Tuesday they had suspended operations indefintely during an investigation of one of the state’s worst maritime disasters. The 75-foot...
U.S. Coast Guard Convenes Marine Board of Investigation into Conception Boat Fire
The U.S. Coast Guard will convene a formal Marine Board of Investigation to investigate the loss of the passenger dive boat Conception. The Conception caught fire and sank in the early morning hours of September 2, 2019, just off Santa Cruz Island in California. Only five of the 39 people onboard...
NTSB Releases Preliminary Report into Conception Boat Fire
The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report into the Conception dive boat fire, revealing that all six crew members were asleep when the fire broke out early on Labor Day as 33 passengers were asleep in the bunkroom of the vessel. The Conception caught fire and sank...
Criminal Investigation Opened Into Fire Aboard California Dive Boat – Source
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Federal authorities are conducting a criminal investigation into the fire on a California dive boat that killed 34 people in one of the state’s worst maritime disasters, a law enforcement source said on Monday. That investigation is proceeding as...
California Dive Boat Fire to Put Spotlight on Titanic’s Legal Defense
By Tom Hals Sept 6 (Reuters) – The company that owns a scuba dive boat that caught fire and sank off California, killing 34 people, has sought to avoid liability by invoking a 19th-century law that has shielded vessel owners from costly disasters such as the sinking of the Titanic. Federal...
NTSB Begins Probe Into Deadly California Scuba Boat Fire
by Omar Younis (Reuters) – Federal safety investigators on Tuesday promised an exhaustive probe into the fire that killed 34 people on a dive boat as many of the charred bodies remained trapped in the sunken wreckage off the California coast or missing in the ocean. After recovering the remains of...
Anguish And Flowers Grow At California Dive Boat Memorial
by Omar Younis (Reuters) – Members of the close-knit Santa Barbara boating community gathered on Tuesday to construct a makeshift memorial to the 34 people believed to have perished when their dive boat caught fire and sank off the California coast. As of Tuesday, 20 badly burned bodies had been...