Overview
- The two-story floating bar and restaurant caught fire Saturday afternoon while open for business and has been towed from Smalls Cove sandbar as a total loss.
- Everyone on board escaped without injury, and passengers and bystanders used fire extinguishers before marine patrol and local fire departments knocked down the flames with fireboats.
- The New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office is leading an ongoing probe that currently identifies the kitchen area as the likely origin and does not consider the blaze suspicious.
- The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services put out booms and is monitoring cleanup after onboard gasoline burned, and officials say the vessel’s diesel tank was not impacted.
- The Dive opened in 2018 and grew into a nine-year summer destination for boaters; owners expressed devastation and gratitude for rescuers and are cooperating with investigators.