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[–] 20424300? 0 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago 

Watch the water?

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[–] 20424982? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Not sure who the crew is today but this was the captains name:

http://diver.net/bbs/messages/51433.shtml

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[–] 20425182? 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Truth aquatics? Doesn't sound masonic at all.

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[–] 20424767? 0 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago 

“The fire was so intense, even after it was put out, we were not able to embark on the vessel and look for survivors,” he said.

Sounds like DEW

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[–] 20425832? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

A gas explosion will cause that intense of a fire.

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[–] 20424454? 1 point 15 points (+16|-1) ago 

Isn’t the boat name “Conception” weird? I mean, guess it could refer to non-sex things but it could have held more people. And like folks are pointing out, only the crew survived.

But check this out. The boat was stolen in 2005 and parked at a top secret base:

http://diver.net/bbs/messages/51433.shtml

That’s odd.

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[–] 20429063? ago 

Point Conception, CA coast.

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[–] 20427587? ago 

anagram for DECEPTION...

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[–] 20428018? 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I'm pretty sure you don't know what an anagram is, if you're making that connection.

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[–] 20425700? ago 

Glen Fritzler was given some award this year.

https://cadivingnews.com/glen-fritzler-receives-california-scuba-service-award/

California native Glen Fritzler was presented the California Scuba Service Award during the Saturday evening Scuba Show celebration held in Long Beach on May 4, 2019.

Fritzler, owner of Truth Aquatics live-aboard fleet, started diving with his dad at the age of 12, and spent practically every weekend diving the coves in Laguna Beach. Occasionally the father and son buddy team would jump on a charter dive boat from San Pedro bound for the Channel Islands. One day they joined skipper Roy Hauser on his 57-foot boat Truth to dive the backside of Catalina, and that’s when Glen says his life and his calling were sealed.

After falling in love with Roy’s boat, father and son went to sign up for another trip, only to learn that the boat had crashed at San Clemente Island and was a complete loss. When they went out with Roy on a boat he was using while starting construction of a new, larger Truth, Roy invited Glen to spend a week helping him build the boat. Glen ended up spending the entire summer working for Roy, and Glen became a deckhand after the boat was launched. By 1979, at the minimum age of 19, he became a licensed captain. That’s when Roy proposed taking Glen on as a partner, allowing him to build equity in the operation.

After running the Truth for a year, Roy and Glen decided to build a newer, larger vessel, adding the Conception to their fleet in the summer of 1981. Conception was California’s crown jewel of live-aboard dive boats. It’s also where Glen met the love of his life, Dana. On the couple’s first dive together they encountered a 17-foot great white shark, truly a memorable first dive-date experience. They married in the summer of 1986 and have a son Austin, a wild land firefighter, and daughter Ashley, an equestrian.

Truth Aquatics started construction on a third boat, the Vision, in 1984. Around the same time, they secured the lease for Santa Barbara’s Sea Landing facility. Today Sea Landing accommodates the three-boat fleet and Glen subleases the rest to water sports concessions including a whale watching boat, a dive center, and a jet ski rental company. Sea Landing is the hub for ocean activities in Santa Barbara.

In the early 2000s luxury dive boats were popping up in warmer water destinations around the globe and California dive business started to slow. Roy had retired and Glen reinvigorated his business by securing a contract with the Channel Islands National Park to take non-diving passengers to visit the islands. The trips include hosting the Sierra Club and various school groups — seniors and kids alike enjoy the thrill of experiencing the Channel Islands for the first time onboard a Truth Aquatics vessel. Through these and other types of trips showcasing what the region has to offer, Glen hopes to bring California diving back as a worldwide destination.

As the Truth turns 45 this year, Glen estimates that the three boats have hosted over 450,000 divers, and 1.3 million California dives. For more information, visit truthaquatics.com

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[–] 20429749? ago 

The Sierra Club... They keep popping up in these webs

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[–] 20424792? ago 

Point Conception is just down the coast.

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[–] 20424814? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Okay, that makes more sense. So, it is sex based. I’m sure conception point was a good place to get laid.

But I still think it’s odd that the boat was stolen and the thieves took off running on a top secret base.

What’s the odds of that happening and then the President pointing the same boat?

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[–] 20424551? 0 points 20 points (+20|-0) ago 

We need to ban assault boats.

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[–] 20424785? 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

Who needs large capacity boats like that anyway?

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[–] 20425003? 0 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago 

Especially these fully-semi-automatic ones... there is no need for any citizen to have a boat like that. Boats like that should be left in the hands of the military.

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[–] 20425793? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Haha

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[–] 20431810? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

No boat should carry more that 15 gallons of gas, that should be all you ever need.

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[–] 20430337? 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Fully automatic gasoline engines, my friend. Think about it. You pull the trigger once and the engine fires thousands of times. You have a magazine capable of feeding that engine thousands of shots per second for hours on end. The end result is a high-speed projectile that is under the control of a madman (or madwoman) and capable of very deadly things. Very deadly things indeed.

Ban civilian use of internal combustion engines.

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[–] 20423935? 0 points 41 points (+41|-0) ago 

Complete crew survived.

All passengers dead.

THINK LOGICAL

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[–] 20425280? 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

34 reported dead

even money says that number goes down by 1 to 33

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[–] 20424821? 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

33 missing - significant?

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[–] 20427886? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

33 is significant, yes. Symbolism. Do a Google search.

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[–] 20425368? 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I took a look at the boat on the old news article about it's theft someone posted in a comment. There's just no way this was an accident. Something catastrophic had to happen on the lower level. This doesn't make sense for it to be an accident. I'm suspicious as fuck.

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[–] 20425095? 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

Why would "divers" on a commercial diving boat all die when they are supposedly skilled at swimming?

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[–] 20430735? 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

Well, Jacque, apparently diving skills aren't very effective when you're asleep and trapped inside a burning boat below deck at 3:00am? What were they supposed to do? Hold their breath until the fire was out? Skillfully swim through the fire? Quick, decode Trumps sneaky tweets to get to find out what really happened.

Some of you clowns are no brighter than the dupes on the left.

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[–] 20428714? 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

One of the news outlets KTLA I think claimed that there was only one way to get down below and they figured that the fire was so intense and blocked the exit which is also where they stored all their gear supposedly. They figure they would have passed out from smoke inhalation very quickly.

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