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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 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...

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 hatch and it would appear as though both of those were blocked by fire. >> the outfitter truth aquatics ...

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 bunks. well today the sheriff said all those sleeping below deck in the bunk house, likely died there tr...

Is directing the crew, go back, go back. and they do go back. they can't 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 that's 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. we've worked a lot of fires. we've had a lot of deaths. and this is like a basement fire. there is one way in and one way out. people are sleeping in a b...

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 people perhaps were trapped? >> right. below decks is bunk space and in back of that towards the stern ...