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Al Seib/ Los Angeles Times(SANTA CRUZ, Ca.) The captain of a scuba dive boat that caught fire off the California coast in 2019, killing 34 people, was sentenced to four years in federal prison on Thursday, according to ABC Los Angeles station KABC.The sentence also included three years of supervised release, KABC reported.A federal jury found Jerry Boylan, 70, of Santa Barbara, guilty of seaman s manslaughter in November 2023 in connection with the deadly boat fire.Boylan was the captain of the Conception, a 75-foot boat that caught fire while it was docked at Platt s Harbor near Santa Cruz Island during a scuba diving excursion in the early morning hours on Sept. 2, 2019, while passengers and crew members were sleeping. One crew member and 33 passengers died, while Boylan and four other crew members jumped overboard and survived.The judge issued the sentence after hearing more than a dozen victim impact statements.A federal grand jury initially indicted Boylan on 34 counts of miscon

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