34 deaths lead to call for passenger vessel safety improvements

The US National Transportation Safety Board has called for major safety improvements to small passenger vessels after the investigation of a 2019 California dive boat fire that killed 34.

Conception’s burned hull at dawn on Sept. 2, 2019, prior to sinking (Photo: Ventura County Fire Department)

The US National Transportation Safety Board has called for major safety improvements to small passenger vessels after the investigation of a 2019 California dive boat fire that killed 34.