SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- As teams of federal, state and local officials looked into exactly what made a deadly fire break out on a diving boat off the coast of Santa Barbara, many were stopping to ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Authorities said Friday medical examiners believe dozens of people trapped when a scuba diving boat caught fire off the Santa Barbara coast died of smoke inhalation, not burns ...

Personnel from the Santa Barbara Harbor Patrol responded to a sinking motor vessel offshore Friday morning. The Harbor Patrol staff, some seen here later on Friday afternoon, provides emergency ...

A motor boat that left the Santa Barbara Harbor early on July 11 sank less than two hours later. All four of its occupants were rescued, but two later died. Credit: Giana Magnoli / Noozhawk photo ...

A second person has died after a boat sank off Leadbetter Point on Friday, July 11, reported Lieutenant Ryan Kelly of the Santa Barbara Harbor Patrol on Wednesday. Four people had taken the 24-foot ...

Nine days after the scuba boat Conception went down in flames with 34 people trapped below deck in one of the deadliest disasters in California maritime history, a federal grand jury began looking ...