A federal grant jury issued a new indictment against a dive boat captain, alleging he acted with gross negligence when a 2019 fire aboard his vessel led to the deaths of 34 people off the Southern California coast.
A federal grant jury issued a new indictment Tuesday against a dive boat captain, alleging that he acted with gross negligence when a 2019 fire aboard his vessel led to the deaths of 34 people off the Southern California coast.the original case because it failed to specify that Captain Jerry Boylan acted with gross negligence aboard the Conception during one of the deadliest maritime disasters in recent U.S. history.
Boylan, 68, is again charged with a single count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer, a pre-Civil War statute colloquially known as"seaman's manslaughter" that was designed to hold steamboat captains and crew responsible for maritime disasters. He faces 10 years in prison and is expected to be arraigned in the coming weeks. His federal public defenders did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday.
The Conception went down in flames on Sept. 2, 2019, near an island off the coast of Santa Barbara. All 33 passengers and a crew member who were trapped in a bunk room below deck died. Boylan and four other crew members escaped. FILE -- Members of the FBI and other officials work in front of the ship Truth, a sister ship of the diving ship Conception, on Sept. 3, 2019, in Santa Barbara, California, following a blaze aboard the dive boat Conception which claimed the lives of 34 people. Tuesday's indictment alleges that Boylan"acted with a wanton or reckless disregard for human life by engaging in misconduct, gross negligence and inattention to his duties.
Investigators had considered at one point that the fire may have been sparked by overheated lithium ion batteries. The tragedy led the U.S. Coast Guard to reissue its emergency water safety guidelines, which include limiting the unsupervised charging of lithium ion batteries.
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