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The fire broke out in the early hours of 2 September 2019 while the commercial scuba diving vessel, the Conception, was moored in Platt's Harbour near Santa Cruz Island, south of Santa Barbara. At the time, it had been hosting a dive expedition over the Labor Day holiday weekend.