Search Warrants Served in California Boat Fire Investigation

Authorities served search warrants Sunday at the Southern California company that owned the scuba diving boat that caught fire.

An FBI photographer takes evidence pictures as authorities search the Truth Aquatics' offices, the California company that owned the scuba diving boat that caught fire and killed dozens of people last week, on the Santa Barbara Harbor in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Sept. 8, 2019. Christian Monterrosa/AP Photo

SANTA BARBARA, California—Authorities served search warrants on Sunday, Sept. 8 at the Southern California company that owned the scuba diving boat that caught fire and killed 34 people last week.

Agents with the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and other agencies searched Truth Aquatics’ offices in Santa Barbara and the company’s two remaining boats, Santa Barbara County sheriff’s Lt. Erik Raney said.