A California scuba dive boat was operating in violation of Coast Guard regulations when crewmembers were sleeping and a pre-dawn fire killed 34 people, leaving grieving families wondering if a required night watchman could have saved their loved ones.
Thursday brought a disclosure from the National Transportation Safety Board that all six crewmembers were asleep aboard the Conception on Sept. 2 when the deadly blaze broke out.
"I have nightmares every day about her going up in flames," Lapporte said, crying. "This isn't the time to talk about how angry I am or how I feel."has yet to be determined. Crews raised the wreckage of the burned-out boat Thursday from waters off Santa Cruz Island where the vessel was anchored the night of the tragedy. The island is northwest of Los Angeles and about 20 miles from the mainland.
Douglas Schwartz, an attorney for the Conception's owner, Truth Aquatics Inc., said in a statement that a crewmember was awake shortly before the fire, which started around 3 a.m. He said the crewman checked "on and around the galley area" around 2:30 a.m. The first mayday call from the captain was transmitted at 3:14 a.m.
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office on Thursday said it had identified all the victims, using DNA testing. NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss said the Coast Guard asked their investigators to postpone the remaining crew interviews pending an investigation.
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