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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 thats 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 th...

The santa barbara marine. a memorial grows where the vessel once docked. helped rescue five crew members. >> fully engulfed from bough to stern. i mean, in flames probably 30 feet high. it was totally done with. >> launched in 1981, the dive boat slept 46 in double bunks about 4 feet wide and just two feet high. the sheriff says there were two possible ways out but the fire trapped victims below deck. >> there was a stairwell to get down the main entryway up and down and there was an escape hatc...

I mean, you know, and it was like my gosh, what do we do? >> it was such a helpless, hopeless feeling to watch that boat burn. >> so the search for survivors is over. dive teams were out today in low visibility hoping to recover an additional nine victims from that boat which is now upside down and unstable and i said 65 feet of water on the ocean floor. now, inside the ship it was launched in 1981. you can see the bunk house stacked three high about four feet wide. many of those are double bunk...

Is directing the crew, go back, go back. and they do go back. they cant save anybody. so you begin there. they went back and they were not able to see anybody at all in the water west saw some of the picture thats are down below. some of the bunks. the description is that it is very, very small space to get up and down into that place where the bunks are. so you can see where in a situation like that, it would be almost impossible. >> yeah. weve worked a lot of fires. weve had a lot of deaths. a...

Been seen but not recovered. they are at the bottom of the ocean. they were able to see at least four more people are deceased under there. we know the vessel sank about four hours after it caught fire. the vessel also at the bottom of the ocean. the investigation into how this happened continues. >> thank you. i want to go to a scuba dive master. he has been on the conception. jerry, tell me you have been on this ship. what was it like and what is it like below deck where it appears so many peo...

The highest part of the boat. it makes perfect sense that theyll be able to initiate the mayday call because, again, thats where the wheres going to be and ever -- where the radios 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. youre going to be out for a couple of days and the gear is on the main deck. youre sleeping in the bunk room. there are bunks for everybody down ...

Does that make sense to you that that is where they would be? >> yes. absolutely. there are three levels on the boat typically. there are below decks and machine spaces where the engine is. then above that is the galley area and the deck, the open deck of the boat itself. and then above that is the wheelhouse which is where you control the boat, but also the majority of the crew sleeps up there in bunks up there in the evenings. they typically have a watchman 24 hours a day for the boat in those...

Wouldnt be a lightning strike or anything like that. it sounds as though there may have been a fire and a lot of that fire was on the deck of the boat. from the pictures that weve seen, the images that weve seen, some of the reporting from people that have come back, it sounds like there may have been some explosions. whether that may have been propane or possibly expressed air from those scuba tanks still unclear. it seems that the fire happened somewhere on the boat and then it spread througho...

Came flying into the room bigger than life and she jumped up on one of the bunks and said, tell me who you like here. >> reporter: was she talking about boys then? >> yeah, she was. im like looking at her going, who is this wild woman? >> reporter: lynn was funny and fiery and full of life. kim knew she liked lynn right away, but it was their shared spirituality that cemented their friendship. >> we both were committed to serving god, and she would just draw you in. and she cared about you. and ...

Hanging where there is no velocity. velocity is what gives you force. >> right. >> if you dont have velocity, you dont have force. that is what this case is all about. they should have done, maybe they have, an investigation of the cell. first of all, why was there a double bunk cell. taking out the cell mate the day before. if you have someone on suicide watch and he still should have been on suicide watch, dont you think gee, maybe he mightjump from the higher balcony? why are there two bunks ...