Five years after 34 souls died aboard a chartered diving boat that was anchored off the coast of the Channel Islands, the National Transportation Safety Board is again urging the U.S. Coast Guard to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jerry Boylan, right, captain of the Conception, arrives in federal court in Los Angeles in October 2023. (Damian Dovarganes / ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KABC) -- Attorneys representing the families of four victims killed when the Conception dive boat burned and sank off the coast of Santa Cruz Island last September are putting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dive boat Conception smolders at sunrise on Sept. 2, 2019, before sinking. (National Transportation Safety Board) The deadly ...

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The captain of the Conception dive boat that caught fire near Santa Cruz Island in 2019, killing all 33 passengers and one crew member, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison. Backstory: Jerry ...

The Labor Day tragedy in 2019 spurred changes to maritime regulations, congressional reform and civil lawsuits. Now four years later, a federal trial for the Conception’s captain, Jerry Boylan, is set ...

Five years after the deadly Conception dive boat fire, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy joined the victims' family members to call on the U.S. Coast Guard to enact ...

Dive boat disaster likely caused by charging batteries and lack of watchman, NTSB says The fire that caused the deadly Conception dive boat disaster last year might have been sparked by cell phones ...

Jerry Boylan, the captain of the Conception dive boat where 34 people died amid smoke and flame over Labor Day weekend in 2019, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for negligence that ...

The deadly fire that broke out four years ago aboard the Conception dive boat, killing 34 people, started in a plastic trash can on the main deck, a confidential report reviewed by The Times shows.