A four-year prison sentence has been handed down to Jerry Boylan, captain of the California dive liveaboard Conception, on which 34 people died when fire
Federal safety officials on Tuesday blamed the deaths of 34 people in a fire aboard a Southern California scuba dive boat directly on the vessel owner's failures to oversee its vessel and crew properly.
Jerry Boylan, captain of the Californian diving liveaboard Conception that caught fire and sank killing 34 people four years ago, has been found guilty of
Federal safety investigators blamed the owners of the vessel, Truth Aquatics Inc., for a lack of oversight, though they have not been charged with a crime.
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