The boat was reportedly grandfathered in to more lax rules, as it was built before the 1996 updates Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

On Monday, 5 January, Egyptian authorities in the Red Sea Governorate rescued 28 passengers from drowning after a tourist ...

The surfacing of Conception comes 10 days after the massive fire broke out, killing nearly everyone on board Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been ...

At least 33 people were feared dead after a boat caught fire off Santa Cruz Island, California, early Monday morning and sank, officials have confirmed. The Santa Barbara-based boat was carrying ...

A British tourist has been reported missing after a fire ripped through a diving boat off the coast of Thailand's notorious 'Death Island'. Backpacker Alexandra Clarke, 26, from Lambeth, was ...

It’s the stuff of nightmares. A 75-foot boat enveloped by flames against a backdrop of a black predawn sky. Dozens of passengers trapped below, unable to flee the inferno. And the close-knit ...

Trial began Tuesday for the captain of a scuba dive boat that caught fire and sank off the Southern California coast in the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history. Thirty-four people died ...

Jody Fritts has gone on dives all over the world, but nowhere does he plummet into waters more frequently than near his Oxnard home. Around the Channel Islands, dubbed the Galapagos of North America, ...

It was a quiet night in Platts Harbor, near Santa Cruz Island. Shirley Hansen and her husband, Bob, had spent the day on the water and anchored their fishing boat Grape Escape in the cove. They cooked ...

The operators of the Conception described the Labor Day diving charter as the perfect time to experience the marine life of the Channel Islands. “The beginning of September is the best time to be at ...

In California, at Santa Barbara's harbor, mourners left candles and flowers to remember the 34 people who are presumed dead following a fire on a commercial diving boat. All right. Officials haven't ...