Attorneys representing 4 families of victims killed in Conception boat disaster blame owner, captain

Attorneys representing the families of four victims killed when the Conception dive boat burned and sank off the coast of Santa Cruz Island last September are putting the blame on the boat’s owner and its captain.

The disaster took the life of 34 people. It is the deadliest maritime disaster in California in more than 150 years.

“Their training was inappropriate and their policies and procedures were deficient,” attorney Robert Mongeluzzi, of the Philadelphia-based law firm Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett & Bendesky said at a news conference Monday.

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