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Bodies are brought ashore at the Santa Barbara Harbor on Monday after the commercial dive boat Conception caught fire and sank near Santa Cruz Island. Twenty bodies have been recovered, but 14 people ...

A 75-foot diving boat called the Conception caught fire off the coast of Ventura County early Monday with 39 people aboard. Five crew members managed to escape the ship, which was largely destroyed.

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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 ...

LITTLE San Salvador lies right in between Orange Creek, North Cat Island, and Bannerman Town on the southern tip of Eleuthera. It was just a reef-surrounded islet in the middle of a shipping channel ...

As officials wrap up the process of recovering bodies of Conception victims, they are moving to the next step — identifying their remains. Authorities say most if not all of those killed in Monday’s ...

One week ago, I was writing about a C-130 airplane that crash-landed at the Santa Barbara Airport and erupted in flames. Remarkably, all seven people aboard escaped unscathed. It was a simpler time, ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Several victims of a boat fire that occurred near the Santa Cruz Islands in Southern California have been identified as Northern California residents. From Santa Cruz to Fremont, ...

So the team went searching for more boas, finding four more snakes before settling down to sleep on the beach at Conception Island. But it turns out the boas weren't ready to call it a night. (See ...