Captain in dive boat tragedy that resulted in 34 dead, fails in an appeal of a seaman's manslaughter conviction, and must ...

PASADENA — A federal appeals panel in Pasadena on Tuesday upheld the manslaughter conviction of the former captain of the dive boat Conception, which caught fire near Santa Cruz Island on Labor Day in ...

The captain of the Conception dive boat, where a 2019 fire off the Channel Islands killed 34 people, has lost his latest bid ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.- Sept. 2nd marks the sixth anniversary of the deadly Conception dive boat fire. It happened in 2019. The Conception, owned by Truth Aquatics at the time, had left the Santa ...

A jury convicted the former captain of the M.V. Conception of seaman’s manslaughter after a fire on the dive boat killed 34 people in September 2019.

In the early hours of September 2, 2019, the dive boat Conception was anchored off Santa Cruz Island, California, after a day of recreational diving. Most of the passengers were asleep in the lower ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The sixth anniversary of the deadly Conception dive boat fire is on Sept. 2. On Labor Day, people visited the memorial at the end of the Santa Barbara breakwater to pay their ...

The dive boat Conception burns early on Sept. 2, 2019, off Santa Cruz Island, Calif. (Santa Barbara County Fire Public Information Officer Mike Eliason) After federal investigators pointed to the ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Brett Harmeling posted to Facebook only hours after Monday's deadly fire tore through the 75-foot dive-boat, Conception. He wrote, "Please pray for my sister Kristy!! She was ...