someone sleeping fl the bottom to try to get out? well, in looking at the floor plan of the boat basically you go down a stairwell on the star board side in the front corner of the bunk room. and that s the egress and ingress access to the bunk room. there is an emergency access hatch that comes up above the two rear bunks, 27 and upper a 10 upper that comes up into the main dining area, salon floor near the back, close to the opening where you can go out the back of the boat. but those are the only ways you can get in and out of it the downstairs bunk room. just to be clear, because the coast guard had originally been asking if thing were locked. your understanding there is no door on the staircase at all so someone could get out but all the means of egress whether
staircase or hatches all essentially go to the kitchen. they go into welcome the kitchen, the galli area is in the front. if you go up the scare are stairwell out of the bottom from the bunk room you ll come up right next to the galli. so the galli the stairs come up right on the star board on the right side of the kitchen area, the galli. and then the hole from there going back to the back of the boat to get outside on the dive deck is all enclosed except for the back opening. that s the salon dining area. that s where everybody you would come up through the emergency hatch end up in the back part of that. or if you come up the ladder you you come up next to the galli. not the ladder excuse me the stairs. you ve been on the boat six times. you re a retired firefighter. yes. what do you think may have happened, eric? hard for me to speculate, really. it s just i really enjoyed
there, across from me, and he was crying. and he said that they had celebred thrys the conception, departed on friday for a labor day weekend scuba trip. the company s website previously poedmages of the boat and the bunk room where the passengers slept. late today, the coast guard recovered four more bodies after finding four earlier in the day. tonight, the coast guard is on the scene looking for survivors. you can also see, there is a thick fog. you can barely make out the shore. that is hampering the search efforts tonight. david? will carr leading us off tonight as we re on the air in the west. we are, as i mentioned, also tracking hurricane dorian at this hour. where will this massive hurricane go next? tonight, heferring dangerous close to the florida coastline. at this hour, just about 100 miles off the coast of florida. a major category 4 hurricane. winds of 145 miles an hour. dorian already landing a devastating blow in the bahamas, hammering the islands relentlessly for
the highest part of the boat. it makes perfect sense that they ll be able to initiate the mayday call because, again, that s where the where s going to be and ever where the radio s going to be and everything else. the issue and the conception, the dive boat, is designed this is a typical design for what we call a california live-aboards dive boat. you re going to be out for a couple of days and the gear is on the main deck. you re sleeping in the bunk room. there are bunks for everybody down below. and you have a main staircase down, and you have a hatch in the back, an escape hatch in the back. it s possible that that hatch has something fallen on top of it and people can t get up it, or in their panic people are just going for the stairway. there s no real way to know. you know, this is just it s been a horrific morning in the dive community as i m sure you can understand. diving is a type of sport where, you know, we go tight knit community. we love nature. it s a rel