A former dive boat captain was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday on a negligence conviction known as “seaman’s manslaughter” after 34 people were killed in a fire that broke out on ...

The 75-foot Conception was anchored about 20 yards off Santa Cruz Island when the scuba diving vessel caught fire about 3:15 a.m., said Mike Eliason, a spokesman for the Santa Barbara County Fire ...

Santa Cruz Island is located about 22 miles southwest of Santa Barbara. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, working with divers from other agencies, recovered the remains Saturday.

In the early morning of Sept. 2, 2019, a fire broke out aboard the Conception, a 75-foot-long boat filled with slumbering recreational and professional divers anchored near Santa Cruz Island off ...

Sheriff’s officials retrieved a body in an underwater cave system on Santa Cruz Island in Santa Barbara County on Nov. 11. The body is believed to be that of a scuba diver who went missing in 2020.

Remains recovered from a Santa Cruz Island cave may be those of missing Ventura County diver Ryder Sturt, 34. ... 31, who went missing while diving in the area in November 2020.

Santa Barbara’s history with deepwater diving goes back to the 1960s, when a diver named Hugh “Dan” Wilson conducted a 400-foot dive off Santa Cruz Island.

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in custody and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard ...