Victims of California boat fire part of 'tight but small community'
LOS ANGELES - Kristy Finstad first swam the waters of California's Channel Islands as a toddler, tucked under her father's arm. The 41-year-old marine biologist had since returned hundreds of times to the area's swaying kelp forests and arrays of coral.
On Friday, Finstad boarded a diving boat to help lead an expedition for her family's scuba diving company. After a fire broke out on board early Monday morning, engulfing and sinking the 75-foot vessel, Finstad remains unaccounted for.
"She's extremely strong-willed and very adventurous," said her brother, Brett Harmeling, 31. "If there was a
