Tragic Dive boat fire in California

And that has been the red flag issue dogging this incident from the beginning. Cause of the fire is one matter. Cause of the loss of 34 lives is another.

The mystery deepens.

Looks like the fire started at the aft end of the main deck even though the charging station was supposedly forward.

After jumping to the forward part of the main deck the crew couldn’t get inside the boat because they couldn’t open a window. Does it mean there were no doors near the galley and the forward section?

So to exit the bunk room people would have to exit forward and have to go aft? How could such a fire trap be certified for passenger service?

No fire axe on a wooden boat ?

From another site;

National Transportation Safety Board releases preliminary report on fire that killed 34 people

All six crew members of the ill-fated dive boat Conception, which caught fire 2 September killing 34 people off the California coast, were asleep when the blaze broke out in violation of regulations requiring a commercial vessel to have a crew member stand night watch.

That two in a row along with the report released this week on duck boat sinking. CG isn’t implement recommendations put out 20 years ago by the NTSB

I think it goes back to the mfg's, insurance companies and law enforcement.
USCG really does not want to dictate how to build a boat past what the CFRs have already stated.
I don't think there is any more room left on a helm dash for more stickers.

Well that’s the problem. When USCG inspectors issue a decal stating the vessel has been inspected and is deemed safe to carry paying passengers, the public has a right to expect a reasonable level of safety

In this case, crowding 40 people in a space below deck one set of stairs and a tight emergency hatch above a bunk is not safe

same with the Duck boat that sunk earlier this year. And the NTSB had made recommendations the USCG ignored. Read the NTSB report... it s very enlightening. Not only do those boats have low freeboard but the canopies used created a death trap. In a previous accident the cause of the sinking was a Broken clamp on a shaft seal. Not broken clamps but clamp. Singular. How could an inspected passenger vessel be allowed to carry paying pax with single clamp under the water line!!!

anyone remember the NTSB report on the casino launch fire a few years ago on the west coast of Florida? If I remember correctly USCG inspectors had signed off on fuel tank sight gauges that were left open. Plus a number of other design deficiencies

years ago when i took the master class, I was amazed that CFRs actually allowed fewer rafts on inspected wooden hulled vessels operated within a few miles of shore. I guess wood floats...

I understand the USCG is limited by the CFRs but that excuse doesn’t work when they reject obviously valid NTSB recommendation