Fire broke out aboard the Conception while it was moored just off the shore of Santa Cruz Island.
Eight people were confirmed dead from a predawn fire that sank a boat off a Southern California island and 26 others who were on the scuba diving vessel were missing, a local sheriff said., a 23m boat, while it was moored just off the shore of Santa Cruz Island, the US Coast Guard said in a statement.
“This isn’t a day that we wanted to wake up to for Labor Day and it’s a very tragic event, Coast Guard Captain Monica Rochester told a news conference. “Fire is the scourge of any ship,” Brown said, and to be in a remote location, asleep and then have a fire spread very quickly, “you couldn’t ask for a worse situation.”Conception
Authorities are trying to determine the best way to recover the sunken vessel, including the possibility of towing it to shore, he added.The surviving crew members sought refuge on a fishing boat moored a few hundred feet away, banging on the side to wake up Bob Hansen and his wife, who were sleeping onboard.
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