T he captain of the dive boat Conception, which caught fire near Santa Cruz Island on Labor Day 2019 was sentenced Thursday to four years behind bars for gross negligence in the deaths of all 33 ...

The Conception was a dive boat owned by a Santa Barbara company called Truth Aquatics. On a Labor Day weekend trip to the Channel Islands in 2019, the boat caught fire in the middle of the night.

The Conception, a 75-foot commercial diving boat, caught fire around 3:30 a.m. local time on Monday off the coast of Santa Cruz Island in California, while all 33 passengers and one crew member ...

The lack of the roving watch meant the fire was able to spread undetected ... owns Truth Aquatics Inc., which operated the Conception and two other scuba dive boats, often around the Channel ...

An expert tells PEOPLE that the fire could have been sparked by any ... and six crew members — were onboard the 75-foot Conception boat when the flames erupted just after 3 a.m. while all ...

When the fire broke out on Conception, Zimmel was about 100 miles south on the Vision, also owned by Truth Aquatics, leading her own Labor Day weekend diving trip. “All the people on our boat ...

Plaque at Santa Barbara Harbor Remembers Each of the 34 Lost in Boat Fire a Year Ago Click to share on Facebook ... of a permanent memorial to the 34 people who died aboard the Conception on September ...

The deadly Conception boat fire killed 34 people in 2019. The boat's captain, Jerry Boylan, was convicted on one count of "seaman's manslaughter" after a 10-day trial in California. Family and ...