Conception dive boat captain to be arraigned in Los Angeles federal court
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The captain of the Conception dive boat is due in a Los Angeles federal courtroom Tuesday.
Jerry Boyland, of Santa Barbara, was in charge of the vessel when it caught fire in September 2019 near Santa Cruz Island. The fire killed 34 people and marked the deadliest marine disaster in California in modern history.
Boyland and other crew members survived. He s now facing nearly three dozen counts of Seaman s Manslaughter. The indictment alleges Boyland caused the deaths by his misconduct, negligence and inattention to his duties.
The Coast Guard is looking into a series of recommended safety reforms for passenger vessels in the wake of a 2019 scuba dive boat fire that killed 34 people off the coast of Southern California.
The Coast Guard signaled Wednesday that it would undertake a series of recommended safety reforms for passenger vessels in the wake of a 2019 scuba dive boat fire that killed 34 people off the California coast, but a top transportation official cautioned that any changes might take years to enact.
The NTSB has no regulatory or enforcement power, and can only suggest nonbinding recommendations to the Coast Guard and the Federal Aviation Administration, which previously have routinely ignored the agency’s suggestions.