A dive boat is engulfed in flames after a deadly fire broke out aboard the commercial scuba diving vessel off the Southern California Coast. (Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP, File) A dive boat is engulfed in flames after a deadly fire broke out aboard the commercial scuba diving vessel off the Southern California Coast. (Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP, File)

The owners of the dive boat where 34 people perished in a fire off Southern California filed a lawsuit to head off potentially costly litigation, a move condemned by some observers as disrespectful to the families of the dead.

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