Many aboard the vessel Conception were thought to be sleeping below deck when the fire broke out in the predawn hours.
The boat was regularly used for diving trips around the Channel Islands and was owned by Truth Aquatics, a major name in the world of charters.
Ralph Clevenger, a photographer who regularly takes pictures of expeditions for Truth Aquatics, has been on hundreds of diving trips with the company since the ‘90s. “It’s a position where if you’re not good with people and your crew, and operating the boat, you just don’t last,” Clevenger said. “We are working deliberately with the vessel owner operator, who is with us at this time, working on a plan to conduct further assistance for his vessel,” Rochester said.Bruce Rausch, a veteran dive master in Orange County and a retired San Onofre nuclear design engineer, said he has been on diving trips aboard the Conception more than a dozen times.
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