California Boat Tragedy Kills Eight, Injures 26

California Boat Tragedy Kills Eight, Injures 26

Five Conception crew members were awake and jumped into the water when flames burst out around 3:15 am , Coast Guard Captain Monica Rochester said, putting the total number of people aboard the boat at 39.Shirley Hansen, who was on the Grape Escape with her husband Bob, told the Los Angeles Times they were asleep when they heard pounding on the side of their fishing boat.

Shirley Hansen said the men were distraught — one had a girlfriend below-deck on the Conception — and two of the men paddled back to look for survivors, but found none.Rochester of the Coast Guard said all the passengers were believed to have been sleeping at the time. The Conception had a crowded cabin with three-high bunks below decks.

Rochester said the Conception, which was launched in 1981 by a Santa Barbara-based company called Truth Aquatics, “has been in full compliance” with safety regulations, and that its owner was cooperating with investigators. Asked whether there had been an explosion on board or a slow-developing fire, Rochester said that “the only Mayday call we received” — which came from the boat — “was the vessel was engulfed in flames.”

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