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    Some recent Conception passengers didn't know about emergency escape hatch

    by Leila Miller, Richard Winton and Mark Puente, Los Angeles Times Sep 12, 2019 5 minutes

    SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Months ago, Truth Aquatics owner Glen Fritzler spoke to Ralph A. Clevenger, who creates visual content for the company, about making a safety video that would play while passengers boarded his dive boats.

    The video settles briefly on a person opening the Conception's escape hatch. It's located underneath a counter in the dining area where passengers stop by to sign the manifest and bears a red sign with the words "emergency exit" and "keep clear."

    Clevenger, a photographer, finished the video the day before a fire on the Conception last week killed 34 people in the worst maritime disaster in modern California history.

    Passenger knowledge of a safety plan aboard the vessel now plays a central part in a criminal investigation that is examining why no one sleeping below deck was able to escape. Law enforcement sources have told the Los Angeles Times that a

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