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    Boat fire victims include a family with three daughters, a marine biologist and a dive instructor

    by Matthew Ormseth, Brittny Mejia, Hailey Branson-Potts and Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times Sep 04, 2019 5 minutes

    SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - For the Quitasol family, the Labor Day weekend scuba diving trip to the Channel Islands was supposed to be a celebration at sea.

    Three sisters - Angela, Nicole and Evan Quitasol - set out Saturday with their father, Michael Quitasol, and stepmother, Fernisa Sison. They were celebrating Michael's birthday with a luxurious three-day excursion that was to include diving amid the kelp forests, nature lectures and gourmet meals.

    But now, the five members of the family are believed to be among 34 people presumed killed when a fire broke out aboard the ship before sunrise Monday, said the sisters' stepfather, Chris Rosas.

    Evan was a nurse in the emergency department of a Stockton-area hospital, Rosas said. Nicole was a bartender who worked in a lounge in Coronado, which allowed

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