The Vision Dive Boat Tour - Truth Aquatics | Santa Barbara, California
This is The Vision Dive Boat. Owned and operated by Truth Aquatics Santa Barbara, California. If you're thinking about going aboard a Truth Aquatics trip, this is a must see.
This is a full boat tour filmed over New Years weekend 2018/2019. Amazing crew, boat, and experience in general. The food was second to none. The the diving was absolutely breathing although a bit chilly that time of year.
Lobster, Scallops and bountiful marine life. Kelp forests, walls, reefs and so much more.
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NTSB states that all Truth Aquatics dive boat crew were all asleep during fire that claimed 34 lives
33 passengers and one crew member died on the Truth Aquatics boat Conception when a fire broke out and all the crew were asleep.
I don't have any information that the investigators don't already have, however, this accident was what is called, a predictable surprise; a possible outcome from the behaviors characterized by, normalization of deviance.
When tragedies like these occur, the first thing that everybody wants are answers or someone to blame. Sometimes events happen and we can't get answers that will make us feel better even with the best accident analysis.
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California boat fire at Santa Cruz Island
Major rescue under way after California boat fire. 34 missing in boat fire off California coast
Emergency services have been trying to rescue dozens of passengers onboard a boat. It is on fire near Santa Cruz Island, California in the US.
75-foot dive boat is on fire off the coast of Southern California in the Channel Islands National Park.
At least 34 people are missing. Five people have been rescued, according to the Coast Guard.
There are numerous fatalities, according to Bill Nash of Ventura County PIO.
A boat on a three-day Labor Day diving excursion has burned down, according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.
The Conception burned down to the water line,” said Santa Barbara County Fire Department PIO Mike Eliason.
The incident happened on the north side of Santa Cruz Island that faces the inland.
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The Conception set out from Santa Barbara on Saturday and visited several diving spots around Santa Cruz Island, an image of the boat's track from MarineTraffic.com shows.
Four crewmembers from the Conception diving vessel are being brought to shore, according to US Coast Guard Los Angeles Chief Warrant Officer Josue Mendez.
Mendez tells CNN that the captain of Conception is still on scene.
Crew injuries are unknown at this time.
The Conception, the boat set ablaze on early this morning, set out from Santa Barbara on Saturday for a diving excursion, according to the website for the diving company, Truth Aquatics.
The boat was set to return to shore today at 5 p.m.
On the Labor Day trip, divers have the unique opportunity to explore the pinnacles of San Miguel Island, Truth Aquatics said on its website. The beginning of September is the best time to be at San Mig, which see strong winds and swell during much of the year.
The company's website said the crew was using the Conception this weekend to visit San Miguel where divers were expecting to see a variety of interesting sea life.
This rarely visited island is loaded with color: anemones, crabs, nudibranchs covering every inch of wall with a rainbow. Great for macro-photography, the website said.
Other possible destinations during the trip included Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, and Santa Barbara Islands, according to the website.
The itinerary: Divers were scheduled to meet at the Santa Barbara Harbor on Friday night, boarding anytime after 8 p.m. The Conception was scheduled to depart at 4 a.m. Saturday, then return on Monday afternoon.
Firefighters are responding to the dive boat fire, which is off the north side of Santa Cruz Island. There are 34 people missing.
Here's a map showing where the island is located off the California coast in the Channel Islands National Park:
Thirty-four people are confirmed missing in a boat fire off the coast of Southern California, according to Santa Barbara County Fire Department PIO Mike Eliason.
“They are unaccounted for, but it's very foggy out there,” he said.
We're still holding hope that someone may have swam to shore. When they anchor overnight they're pretty close to shore. We have to hope, but we plan for worst case scenario, Eliason said.
Santa Barbara County Fire Department received a mayday call of a vessel in distress off the Channel Islands at 3:30 a.m. local time.
According to Eliason, the boat involved is a popular overnight dive boat and fishing boat.
Santa Barbara County Fire does not have assets involved in the rescue.
Coast Guard Senior Chief Aaron Bemis told CNN the fire on the boat keeps re-flashing, hampering efforts to board the boat and look for survivors.
“It keeps being extinguished and re-flashing, possibly due to the amount of fuel on board. Unsure why, but it's consistently being put out and re-flashing,” Bemis said.
“Multiple coast guard and local Ventura County Fire Department assets on scene, but we're not able to yet breach the hull and see if there's any survivors at this point,” Bemis said.
Bemis could not confirm any fatalities, “I'm unaware of any survivors at this time, and I'm also no confirmed casualties at this time. It's too early to tell.”
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Coast Guard, Salvage Crew Remove Dive Boat Conception From Waters Near Santa Cruz Island
Watch live: A Coast Guard crew raised the Conception from the sea floor off Santa Cruz Island on Thursday, 10 days after the boat burned and sank, killing 33 passengers and one crew member aboard. Sky5 is still overhead.
Conception Boat Fire Press Conference Day 2-Raw Feed
This press conference started just after 10am at the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department and included members of all the key agencies coordinating the now-suspended search and rescue and what has become the recovery and investigation phases.
This press conference was held on September 3, 2019, on Day 2 of the response. Truth Aquatic's 75-foot dive charter boat the Conception caught fire sometime before 3:30am the previous day (on September 2) while at anchor just off of Santa Cruz Island. As feared, the only survivors were the first five crew members who jumped from the burning vessel sometime around 3:30am.
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The official briefing begins at 2:40
Key details are discussed beginning at 10:45
A comment on confused information in recent news reports begins just after: 22:30
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Company Behind Dive Boat In Fatal Fire Searched
Search warrants were served at Truth Aquatics, which investigators say passed all inspections and had an excellent safety record. Kandiss Crone reports.
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Conception Dive Boat Fire Tragedy Questions and Possible Answers
This video covers the recent Conception Dive Boat Fire Tragedy and offers some possible answers to The Question of What Happened?? Please watch the entire video and give us Your Opinion as to what you think happened and if you see the possible answers within this video as viable.
California dive boat fire could lead to criminal case - 34 People killed ... but no liability???
The captain and crew who leapt from a burning dive boat off Southern California saved themselves as 34 people perished below deck.
Whether their escape from the Conception before dawn Monday was the only viable option, an act of cowardice or even a crime has yet to be determined. While the old saw about the captain going down with his ship is more an antiquated notion, there are laws to punish a ship’s master who shirks his duty to safely evacuate passengers.
The responsibilities of captain and crew are broadly defined, said professor Martin J. Davies, who is the maritime law director at Tulane University. With passengers, their duty is take reasonable care in all the circumstances, which is dependent on those circumstances.
If that captain made no attempt to save passengers trapped in a burning boat that would be a violation of his duty. But it wouldn’t necessarily be wrong if the crew decided there was nothing they could do to help the passengers in the berth and abandoned ship to seek help from a boat nearby.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said fire above deck blocked the one stairway and an emergency exit hatch where 33 passengers and one crew member were sleeping in bunks. It’s not known if any alarm sounded or what the people below deck may have done to try to escape.
Finding the cause of the fire could be difficult with the boat largely destroyed and sitting upside down in 60 feet (18 meters) of water. Other items that could provide valuable clues could have been carried away by the tides or destroyed in the fire that burned so hot DNA was needed to identify the dead.
Investigators will want to produce a timeline of the ship’s final voyage from the moment it pulled from a Santa Barbara dock early Saturday morning until the crew jumped overboard, experts said. They will look at the ship’s layout and whether the bunk room below deck was too cramped and had enough exits, review maintenance records, even study photos and videos from people who have been on the boat to look for valuable evidence.
While lawsuits are almost a guarantee with such a high death toll, it’s not clear if any crime was committed, experts said.
Under federal law, a captain or crew member can be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison if misconduct, negligence or inattention to duty leads to a death. The law can also be extended to a boat owner or charterer who engages in “fraud, neglect, connivance, misconduct, or violation of law” that takes a life.
Some high-profile boating disasters have sent ship captains to prison for failing to perform their duties.
Capt. Francesco Schettino was sentenced to 16 years in an Italian prison for abandoning ship and other crimes when he fled in a lifeboat after the Costa Concordia ran aground off Tuscany in 2012 and killed 32 people. He refused an order from the Italian Coast Guard to return to the listing ship.
The Conception, owned by Truth Aquatics, was being chartered for three days by a commercial dive outfit based in Santa Cruz to explore the rugged Channel Islands, sometimes referred to as the Galapagos of North America, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Santa Barbara.
Coast Guard records show fire safety violations on the Conception in 2014 and 2016 were quickly fixed. There were no deficiencies found in February or August 2018 inspections.
The five survivors were all crew members, including the captain. They apparently jumped from the bow, where the stairway led to the sleeping quarters in the berth, and swam to the stern, where they took a dinghy to a nearby boat.
Attorney Gordon Carey, who practices maritime law, said the captain and crew should have done what they could to put out the fire, but not to the point of losing their own lives.
“They may have an obligation to put themselves at risk, but they don’t have an obligation to commit suicide and certain death to save the passengers,” he said.
Carey, who is not a criminal lawyer, said it’s possible the owner of the boat or captain could face charges for being criminally negligent for behavior reckless they should know peoples’ lives would be at risk.
Carey has been scuba diving for 50 years and has been on many long-distance voyages to exotic dive spots around the world. He said he’s never been on a boat where the passengers slept below deck and he questioned why so many were crammed in a space toward the bow with only one staircase and one emergency hatch.
He said an owner or captain has to anticipate the normal range of risks — from collision to a breach of the hull to high seas to fire.
“If you have either designed or put into place an operation that, knowing the risks that are there, and fire is certainly one of them, that put people in a serious risk of dying, I guess that sort of rises to the level of what I would consider involuntary manslaughter,” Carey said. “It’s behaving recklessly in the face of known danger.”
Inside Painted Cave on Truth Aquatics Conception
Inside Painted Cave aboard the Truth Aquatics Conception 6/8/2013. Painted Cave is the largest sea cave in North America.
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Was the M/V Conception Taken Out By a Direct Energy Weapon or a Renegade Chinese Submarine?
From the Wiki page for the Steven Spielberg 1979 war action comedy film '1941' - Plot: On Saturday, December 13, 1941, at 7:01 a.m. (six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor), a Japanese submarine surfaces off the California coast. The sub is commanded by Commander Mitamura. A Nazi General, Wolfgang Von Kleinschmidt, is along as an observer. Mitamura wants to destroy something honorable in Los Angeles and decides to target Hollywood.
On Saturday, December 13, 1941, at 7:01 a.m. (six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor), a Japanese submarine surfaces off the California coast. The sub is commanded by Commander Mitamura. A Nazi General, Wolfgang Von Kleinschmidt, is along as an observer. Mitamura wants to destroy something honorable in Los Angeles and decides to target Hollywood.
Four day's ago (September 9th) I published two videos regarding the (September 2nd) horrific fire aboard the Santa Barbara based dive boat Conception where an intense fire aboard the boat at 3:15am took the lives of 33 scuba diving enthusiasts and one crew member. Another 5 crew members - including the Captain jumped overboard and survived the fast burning and apparent out of control fire. Several people have commented on my videos - which are posted on both my YouTube channels and several people are having problems believing the narrative that has been delivered by the mainstream media as to the circumstance surrounding this fire. Several people, including me are having a problem accepting the fact that not a SINGLE person made it out of the burning boat alive who were asleep below deck. I don't understand how the five crew members above deck were not aware that the boat was on fire, until it was so out of control that they could not even fight back the flames with on board fire extinguishers to get to the passengers below deck. The FBI announced on Monday September 9th that they were investigating the company - Truth Aquatics - for any wrong doing in regards to this fire. The Santa Barbara based company has two other dive boats 'Truth' and 'vision' which is their flag ship charter.
This video - as far fetched as it sounds - will jump into the Conspiracy Theory Rabbit Hole - and look at whether 'outside' (insert China here) factors may have played a role in the demise of the MV Conception in the early morning hours of September 2nd, 2019.
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Part I: Madera couple relives rescuing 5 survivors from SoCal burning boat. 'It was fate'
An Eyewitness News exclusive, the Madera couple who helped to rescue the survivors of the deadly boat fire in southern California Monday relives the moments, which they call “fate.”
Bob and Shirley Hansen sat down days later at their home in Madera, as they relived an emotional Monday morning. They watched “The Conception” dive boat go up in flames just a few hundred yards from their own boat, “The Grape Escape.”
They shared their cell phone pictures of the horrific scene they woke up to early Monday morning.
“You can see there’s nothing on that boat that wasn’t burning, all you could see…,” they remembered, “It was totally lit.”
It all started with a banging on the outside of their boat.
Five crew members, one with a broke leg, had managed to reach their boat which was about 400 yards away from The Conception.
“My husband saw the men in the inflatable (boat) and opened the door right away,” Shirley explained. “I opened the door,” Bob replied.
Adding, “I looked out just past them and I see this boat, totally in flames.”
He immediately called the Coast Guard, but knowing deep down, help would arrive too late.
“It wouldn’t have made a difference if they where five minutes away. So for an hour we sat and watched that boat burn, knowing what was inside there,” Bob said somberly.
The boat captain’s words echoed in his mind: “We’re a dive boat, we have 34 souls on board.”
The Coast Guard instructed them to say on scene. They felt helpless as the inferno raged lighting up the night sky.
“Every now and again, one of the dive tanks, that’s what we figure it was, would get hot enough to blow,” Bob said.
The sound haunts him still, he says. “I can still hear it, echoing through the area there.”
Shirley tried to help the five survivors. “They where shaking. Two of them where crying.”
Adding, “The one man with the broken leg was in agony.”
Meanwhile, two crew members got back into the dingy – armed with flashlight and two hand radios looking for possible survivors.
They found none. And so they waited and prayed.
The Hansen’s, who where in the cove deep sea fishing, believe that fate brought them there to help the survivors.
“Even for us being there, it was just by God’s will that we where even there,” they said.
Adding: “It was fate that you were there. It was fate, total fate. To me, God’s plans were we’re going to be, and we where the only boat around for miles. We where it, they had no communication. Nothing.”
Owner of dive boat where 34 died seeks to head off lawsuit
Owner of dive boat where 34 died seeks to head off lawsuit
California Channel Islands -- August 2018
Another amazing five-day dive trip aboard Vision operated by Truth Aquatics. We dove two days on San Clemente Island, a day on Catalina, a day on Santa Barbara Island, and our last day on Santa Cruz Island. The crew was awesome as always. Our group was super friendly and just an amazing bunch of people. I can't wait for the next trip!
A couple images and video clips are actually from a previous trip.
Inside Santa Barbara December 2019
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• Westside Transportation Management: The city of Santa Barbara is prioritizing bicycle and pedestrian safety and there are now some projects on the drawing board, and some already in progress on the West Side of town, that will give this area an entirely new look and feel.
• De La Guerra Bridge: New construction began to replace the 105 year old structurally deficient De La Guerra Street Bridge over Mission Creek.
• Measure C: Learn about several recent infrastructure improvement projects to City fire stations funded through the voter passed sales tax Measure C
• New Park Rules: Take a tour through Santa Barbara’s numerous parks and open spaces to learn about some new rules recently adopted to make them even more enjoyable and safe.
• Airport Disaster Drill: Flying is considered the safest form of transportation. That doesn’t mean Airports don’t need to be prepared for an aircraft accident. In fact, the FAA requires all airports, including Santa Barbara Airport, to conduct drills to prepare and train for such an emergency.
• Creeks and Ocean Health Best Practices: Keeping our Creeks and Oceans clean is not only beneficial for all the residents of Santa Barbara, but also for our aquatic friends as well. In this segment you will hear how your neighbors do their part to keep this important natural resource thriving.
• Gibraltar 100th Anniversary: Gibraltar Reservoir is one of 4 major reservoirs in Santa Barbara County. It supplies drinking water from the Santa Ynez river to the residents of the City of Santa Barbara and in 2020 it will celebrate its 100th Anniversary.
Owners Of Burned California Diving Boat Say They Owe Nothing To Victims' Families - Breaking News
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For any copyright, please send me a message. The owners of the commercial diving boat that erupted into flames during a Labor Day weekend accident off the coast of Southern California are now seeking to avoid payouts to the families of the 34 people who died onboard. On Thursday, Glen and Dana Fritzler of Truth Aquatics, which owned the now-destroyed Conception, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, arguing they shouldn’t owe a single cent for the tragedy, the Associated Press reported. The Fritzlers are attempting to make their case by using the Shipowner’s Limitation of Liability Act of 1851, a statute frequently used in waterway accidents. The couple has requested that the judge either waive their financial liability or adjust it to the boat’s post-fire value ― in this case, $0. The law was most famously used by the shipping company White Star Lines after the 1912 Titanic disaster during which more than 1,500 passengers were killed on the ship’s maiden voyage. In that instance, the company’s liability was evaluated at $92,000, which equaled the worth of the surviving lifeboats. In the early hours of Monday morning, a Conception crew member made a mayday call announcing that the 75-foot vessel had caught fire near Santa Cruz Island. Five of the six crew members jumped ship and survived, but the remaining crew member and 33 passengers who died were trapped below deck with no way out. As of Wednesday, all but one of the bodies had been found and recovered. Local, state and federal authorities are still investigating what happened, though an early investigation uncovered safety lapses, law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times. According to the AP, a non-jury trial will be held to determine whether Truth Aquatics can prove it wasn’t to blame for the fire. If it is successful in doing so, claimants will not be entitled to any financial restitution. CORRECTION: A previous version of this article mistakenly stated the Conception caught fire near Santa Cruz, and that four out of five crew members made it off the boat. The accident occurred near Santa Cruz Island, and five out of the six-person crew escaped. Download REAL LIFE. REAL NEWS. REAL VOICES. Help us tell more of the stories that matter from voices that too often remain unheard. Join HuffPost Plus