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Unknown but an area of concern is where passengers charged their cell phones and cameras in the galley. and overloaded circuits, bad wiring, overheated battery exploded? they dont know. >> theres a lot of wiring and electrical systems. there may have been, we dont know this yet, there may have been geared charging. >> all of the remains suffered varying degrees of fire damage which requires dna analysis to confirm the identities of the victims. >> the owner of the dive boat is defending the crew...

Federal lawsuit. theyre trying to avoid having to pay the victims families. william la jeunesse reporting live on the ground in santa barbara. >> the latest is theyre trying to recover the remains of the boat. thats dependent on the weather. cause and origin of the fire unknown. investigators are focused on the area on the second deck of the boat where passengers charge their cell phones and batteries. as you said, they are using dna because so many bodily are badly burned. theyre learning based...

Allow our investigators to make proper next of kin notifications. however, we do intend and will release the names of victims after we have positively identified them and have notified their next of kin. >> dana: william la jeunesse reports on this all week. william, whats the latest today? >> reporter: the major takeaway is number one the passengers had no chance to survive. one, because of the flames. two, because of the design and layout of the boat made it impossible nearly for them to get o...

>> so based on crew accounts, officials say that passengers had no chance of surviving, because of the boats layout and design, no one heard a working smoke alarm, and reportedly the vote had no night watchman, which is required by cove. the atf has brought in their national response team to try to determine the cause, bringing up that vote is so important. also the autopsies will tell us because of how long or how long they did not have to live. >> dagen: william la jeunesse in california for u...

Area below deck, a small staircase, and the one tiny escape hatch, likely focus for families making a legal claim against the owner for liability and negligence. >> arguments will be made about the layout of the vessel, the configuration of it, and what kind of safety it provided to the passengers sleeping below decks in the event of an emergency. that is certainly something i would look at. >> basically, at this point in time, i saw in the "los angeles times" that the ntsb board member told the...

Her spirits and our love and her vibrant energy will always be with me, and every single person she has ever got to be around. >> today, dive teams will continue searching for that one last victim. they are also trying to bring up what is left of the dive boat. they brought in a side-scan sonar, identical to those used by the navy to search for airplanes, to give engineers a clear picture of the hull. the ntsb interviewed some of the crew yesterday. they went over the layout of the boat. big out...

Where lifeboats were, fire hoses, and it helped us understand the layout of the existing vessel that is still to be recovered. that helped quite a bit. heather: no way for the people in their bunkbeds to escape other than going up the one staircase. >> the staircase and an emergency hatch in the back of the bunk room. there is a ladder on the side of 3 bunks and on the top bunk you would have to crawl into a hatch and open a wooden door. both exits end up in the galley. heather: thanks for joini...

Fire extinguishers were available, and the layout in general. what i ended up doing in the bunk room was we entered the bunk room and then went to the back bunk, went up the ladder, and then climbed over the bunk and through the hatch. we did that with the lights on and the lights off to get a sense of, could you see? actually, we couldnt see. so that was concerning. but its important that we look into that. >> harris: okay, there is the visual. can you see your way out? my next question is, if ...

Theyve conducted interviews with key people like the owner of the boat, the captain, and some of the deck hands, all of whom are being described as very cooperative. yesterday members of the ntsb met with the families of the victims for two hours to express their profound sorrow. this morning on "fox & friends" investigators said theyre getting a better idea of the layout of the vessel. especially the room where the life jackets, the life boats, and the fire hoses were kept. >> we have conducted...

>> we want to see what happened so we can try to prevent this from happening again. >> reporter: after interviewing the five surviving crew members, the coast guard and ntsb boarded "the vision," examining the layout of its sleeping quarters similar to "the conception," investigators finding it difficult to escape through the emergency hatch. >> i did have concerns about passenger egress >> not enough or not big enough >> my concerns were whether the passengers could get out. >> reporter: after ...