33 Bodies Now Reported Recovered From Channel Islands Dive Boat Disaster

KCLU | By Lance Orozco

Published September 4, 2019 at 12:03 AM PDT

An impromptu memorial continues to grow with flowers and candles at Santa Barbara Harbor, after the excursion boat Conception was hit by fire, and sank

Divers are now reported to have recovered 33 bodies of those who died in a fire which swept through an excursion boat in the Channel Islands over the Labor Day weekend.

The Conception had 39 people on board. It’s believed that 34 of them died in the inferno, so one body is still missing.

KCLU’s Lance Orozco has an update.

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Lance Orozco

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.

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