{"id":5344,"date":"2020-08-31T22:15:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=5344"},"modified":"2020-09-01T16:18:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T23:18:30","slug":"conception-dive-boat-disaster-feds-to-reveal-cause-of-blaze-that-killed-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=5344","title":{"rendered":"Conception Dive Boat Disaster: Feds To Reveal Cause Of Blaze That Killed 34"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On September 2nd, it will be the one year anniversary of the Conception dive boat tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found an interesting article from the Los Angeles Times that states the NTSB will be announcing their findings soon&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                                                                                                                                        By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/richard-winton\">Richard Winton<\/a> Staff Writer\u00a0                                                                                                    Aug. 31, 20204:30 PM                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\n the anniversary of California\u2019s deadliest maritime disaster in modern \nhistory nears, the National Transportation Safety Board announced it \nwill hold a hearing in October to reveal the results of its \ninvestigation into the Conception dive boat fire that killed 34 people \noff Santa Cruz Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A preliminary NTSB investigation concluded \nthat five members of the crew were asleep in the wheelhouse and that \nthere was no roving watch on the vessel operated by Santa Barbara-based \nTruth Aquatics as required by the U.S. Coast Guard during the hours when\n passengers were asleep below deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the more extensive \nexamination of the origins, cause and events leading up to the \nConception being burned to the waterline has taken months of \ninvestigation led by NTSB board member Jennifer Homendy. The board will \nvote on findings, probable cause and recommendations for changes to \nsmall passenger vessels to avoid a repeat of what its chairman called a \n\u201chorrible, horrible tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have substantially completed our  investigation,\u201d said Eric Weiss, an NTSB spokesman. Weiss said that in  the coming weeks NTSB staff will make public interviews, research and  other investigative materials before the public hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entire article can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-08-31\/ntsb-conception-boat-fire-investigation-findings-scheduled\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conception dive boat disaster: Feds to reveal cause of blaze that killed 34 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 2nd, it will be the one year anniversary of the Conception dive boat tragedy. I found an interesting article from the Los Angeles Times that states the NTSB will be announcing their findings soon&#8230; By\u00a0Richard Winton Staff Writer\u00a0 Aug. 31, 20204:30 PM As the anniversary of California\u2019s deadliest maritime disaster in modern history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24,23,44],"tags":[65,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5345,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344\/revisions\/5345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}