engaged in the galley, the second deck. they couldn t get in the door or window. the smoke was too bad and they jumped overboard. they indicated they sound no fire in the engine room, although crew heard a smoke alarm, they said to existed in the bunk room where passengers slept. it s not just about can you see your way out? can you get up the ladder, over the bunk, find the emergency escape hatch and get up it. it s difficult to maneuver. the ntsb said today they would examine an older boat the smoke alarms as well as the exit routes because we knows kind of compromised. we got a statement from the attorney representing the owner of the boat and he said their family is reeling from this tragedy and support the investigation and wonder why transportation authorities, if they knew there were problems with lithium-ion batteries on planes, why they did not apply
this. we talked about the power source and how it could have been over heated. number two, they re going to look into smoke alarms because in this particular case, these were really old. you can get them at home depot for five bucks. they were not wired into the wheel house. finally evacuation procedures. some points were articulated in terms of the exit and it not being properly, adequate if you will, were articulated by the ntsb board member who toured a sister boat and interviewed the crew. it s not just about can you see your way out. it s can you get up the ladder, over the bunk, find the emergency escape hatch and get up it. it s difficult to maneuver. reporter: so the plan today is to take a barge out there, lift the existing boat off the ocean floor and then bring it here where i m at, which is the largest port between san francisco and l.a. there, atf fire investigators
fire extinguishers were available, and the layout in general. what i ended up doing in the bunk room was we entered the bunk room and then went to the back bunk, went up the ladder, and then climbed over the bunk and through the hatch. we did that with the lights on and the lights off to get a sense of, could you see? actually, we couldn t see. so that was concerning. but it s important that we look into that. harris: okay, there is the visual. can you see your way out? my next question is, if the hatch is not that big and you ve got 34 people, that s a lot of people to get through a porthole that maybe only fits one at a time. it s not just about seeing your way out. it s, can you get up the ladder come over the bunk, find the emergency escape hatch, and get up it? it s difficult to maneuver. harris: did you try opening
couldn t get out. it s not just about can you see your way out. it s can you get up the ladder, over the bunk, find the emergency escape hatch and get up it. and it s difficult to maneuver. you have a lot of people in that birthing compartment. the pictures i have seen of it suggest to me it s very claustrophobic in that birthing compartment. maybe somebody will make the argument that the berth should have been above that rather than below that. reporter: so the priority now facing divers, how to get the boat off the bottom of the ocean without it breaking up and losing key evidence. they brought in a side so tphar which is identical to those used by the navy to find airplanes to give engineers on the top side a clear picture of the hull and where to put the air bags. now, there s no timetable for that right now. it will depend on the conditions below and the surface as well. then the decision will be made whether it goes onto a barge to
things were all conspiracies mounted by the federal government so they can come in and try to take your guns or put you in a camp or i don t know. but that s alex jones. and alex jones is rand paul s emergency escape hatch? his plan c? the republican debate tomorrow night. enlist the army of alex jones conspiracy theorists. we ll see if that works. reince priebus. you might want to check the caller i.d. before you pick up the phone. so this day after the state of the union, it has been a difficult day for a lot of republican presidential campaigns. the day has basically been great, though, for the man who was obliquely referenced in a critical way by president obama a couple of times in his state of the union speech and a man who was directly referenced in a negative way in the official republican response to that speech.