Jerry Boylan, 67, was charged with 34 counts of seaman’s manslaughter for “misconduct, negligence and inattention” by failing to train his crew, conduct fire drills and have a roving night watchman on the Conception when fire broke out Sept. 2, 2019. [image] California boat captain indicte…

[image] RickD: I can’t wrap my head around the fact that none of the crew was awake, at anchor, with PAX on board. Not to bash these guys but even worse, passengers reported they were allowed to board and sleep on the boats the night before departure with no crew on board.

The dive boats were using a different system. To mariners outside that system it doesn’t make sense. For the mariners inside the system it did make sense.

thats because business lobbies government and individuals cant

[image] Lee_Shore: On the boats I worked on, the log only kept general records such as ports visited and everyone on board was on set salary plus tips. No timesheets. No security round entries in the log. Gotcha… but the crew testimony will be crucial. I guess some of you guys made a good p…

It’s been this way a pretty long time. I remember in my late teens early twenties in mid to late 1980’s going on the Conception and other SoCal dive boats and you always showed up the night before, crashed on the boat. Crew showed up in the early hours and you woke up at the dive site, with breakfas…

Caution: Don’t Read this if you can’t handle truth… I see so many buck passing irresponsible replies that I am compelled to say my piece. Protecting the safety of a vessel, it’s cargo and most importantly all souls on board is incumbent on the Licensed Master of the vessel. If a Master (like too man…

I believe and have said on this thread that the captain should be held accountable. [image] TowboatTerri: Yes, a company’s policy should also require such and the company should be held to account as well, and that company should certainly be held financially responsible to the families. How…

Practically speaking, there are different needs and expectations for Masters on different types of vessels in different types of trades. Part of the rational for allowing small commercial passenger vessels with no inspection or licenses (“Six-Packs”) and passenger vessels with more than 6 passenge…

There is settled precedent, as well as common and statutory provisions of Maritime Law which address a ship owner’s duty of care. It is not Buck Passing, rather making mention of such obligations of vessel owners. But, those technical legal issues will be appropriately dealt with in the courts. This…

First, I think the captain should be held accountable and also he is likely in significant legal trouble as I’ve said. So the captain is at fault and to blame but the company needs to be more mindful in the future? Evidently people are able to reach this conclusion intuitively. I don’t know or un…

Conception dive boat captain indicted on 34 counts

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Conception dive boat captain indicted on 34 counts

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