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 ...

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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 ...

A memorial is in Santa Barbara for the 34 people who died in the Conception boat fire in 2019. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Five years after California's worst modern maritime disaster, relatives of ...

President Joe Biden recently signed legislation which holds owners of boats responsible for damages caused to their passengers. The Small Passenger Vessel Liability Fairness Act was authored by Rep.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday that would change 19th century maritime liability rules in response to the 2019 boat fire off the coast of Southern California ...

The smoldering remains of the dive boat Conception Credit: Ventura County Fire Department photo Cell phone video captured by one of the Conception dive boat victims confirms that people below deck ...

A federal jury on Monday found a scuba dive boat captain was criminally negligent in the deaths of 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019, the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S.

A total of 34 people were killed on Sept. 2, 2019, when the Santa Barbara-based dive boat Conception caught fire and sank while anchored offshore of Santa Cruz Island. Noozhawk.com Cell phone video ...

In the early hours of Sept. 2, 2019, the Conception dive boat was anchored off Santa Cruz Island, 25 miles out to sea from Santa Barbara, when a fire sparked and burned unnoticed. At about 3 a.m., the ...

Jerry Boylan, right, captain of the Conception, arrives in federal court in Los Angeles in October 2023. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) Jerry Boylan, the captain of the Conception dive boat ...

Five years after California's worst modern maritime disaster, relatives of the Conception boat fire victims are angry about what they call the slow pace of accountability, while a top U.S. safety ...