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Diving Community Reeling After Boat Fire Tragedy

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Words written on a candle placed at a makeshift memorial for victims of a scuba diving boat fire in Santa Barbara, California on September 3, 2019. - Authorities on Tuesday suspended the search for survivors of a scuba diving boat disaster in Santa Cruz Island off the California coast after recovering 20 bodies and spotting another four to six trapped in underwater wreckage. The bodies of 11 women and nine men were transferred to coroner offices following the disaster on September 2, when the 75-foot (23-meter) Conception caught fire and sank with passengers trapped below deck by the roaring blaze.  (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)

Details continue to emerge about the people who are presumed to have lost their lives aboard the dive boat Conception. All of this has hit the close-knit diving community hard. Longtime diver Brian Nelson with the Monterey Harbor says people in the community are devastated.

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