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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KABC) -- Investigators determined a fire that broke out aboard the Conception dive boat in 2019 that killed 34 people started in a plastic trash can, according to a recent ...

Congressman Salud Carbajal (D-CA 24), is celebrating the House’s approval of a measure to update maritime liability laws to help victims of boating disasters. The reform Carbajal championed was ...

On the fifth anniversary of a diving boat fire off the Santa Barbara coast that claimed the lives of 34 people — more than half hailing from the Bay Area and Northern California — the head of the ...

A trial for the captain of the Conception dive boat began Tuesday, four years after 34 people were killed in a horrific fire on the vessel in one of the deadliest accidents in recent U.S. maritime ...

Federal lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday that would change 19th century maritime liability rules in response to the 2019 boat fire off the coast of Ventura County that killed 34 people. The ...

LOS ANGELES (Tribune News Service) — Federal investigators on Monday criticized the U.S. Coast Guard for failing to heed years of boat safety recommendation, saying more aggressive action could have ...

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.

The fire that killed 34 people onboard a dive boat off the coast of Santa Cruz Island on Labor Day 2019 started in a plastic trash can on the main deck, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.