Nine days after the scuba boat Conception went down in flames with 34 people trapped below deck in one of the deadliest disasters in California maritime history, a federal grand jury began looking ...

It’s the stuff of nightmares. A 75-foot boat enveloped by flames against a backdrop of a black predawn sky. Dozens of passengers trapped below, unable to flee the inferno. And the close-knit ...

It was a quiet night aboard the 75-foot scuba-diving boat Conception, anchored on Labor Day weekend in 2019 off Platts Cove, Santa Cruz Island, some 21 nautical miles from Santa Barbara, California.

The bodies of 33 of the 34 people presumed dead after a dive vessel caught fire off the coast of California on Monday have been recovered, officials said Wednesday. Dozens aboard the Conception – a ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The 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 ...

SANTA BARBARA (CBS SF/AP) -- The majority of 34 people killed when a dive boat exploded in flames near an island off the Southern California coast were from Northern California and the San Francisco ...

"It's beyond comprehension that this happened," one former passenger said Dave Quinn is the Deputy News Director at PEOPLE. He has been working at the brand since 2016, and is the author of the No. 1 ...