Caroline McLaughlin
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Caroline McLaughlin (1983 - 2019)

Caroline McLaughlin
Born [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
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Died at age 35 in At Seamap
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Space:Santa Cruz Island, California, Conception Dive Boat Fire

Biography

Victim of the Conception dive boat fire.

Carrie was unmarried and had no children.


Education platform Brilliant, a website that creates interactive STEM courses based in San Francisco, confirmed two employees were on the boat over the holiday weekend. Carrie McLaughlin was a senior software engineer.

“The loss of Carrie and Kristian is deeply heartbreaking for all of us at Brilliant,” chief executive Sue Khim said. “Carrie and Kristian were incredible friends and colleagues who brought immense passion, talent, leadership, and warmth, and they will be missed dearly. Our hearts are with their families and friends.”


McLaughlin, who was known to her family and friends as Carrie, graduated from Paly in 2001 and the University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts in 2005. She pursued a career in web design in the Bay Area, most recently as a senior software engineer at San Francisco-based Brilliant.org, a website and online community that offers math, science and engineering courses. It was a job she loved, according to her father, Don McLaughlin.

Don McLaughlin said his daughter would have turned 36 on Sept. 16. She attended Addison Elementary and Jordan Middle School in Palo Alto. Her classmates voted her as the student who would "most likely to succeed in computers" when she was in her senior year at Paly, he said.

McLaughlin lived in Oakland. She spoke Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese and had a love for dance, according to her Facebook page. She was also a watercolorist who shared her works through the website carrielicious.com.

"She had a passion for art. She would be drawing or painting whenever she could," he said.

She was also a great lover of the outdoors.

"When we were in Yosemite this summer, she walked to the top of Yosemite Falls," her father said. Three weeks ago she competed in a triathlon in Oakland.

She took up scuba diving a few years ago and dove in locations such as Hawaii. The trip on the Conception was not her first to the Channel Islands. Last year she went on another diving excursion in the same area with some of the people who also died in the fire, he said.

Her parents said they remembered most that she was "an avid and active advocate" for those who needed help.

"She practiced kindness more than anybody else I have known. She was an advocate for women's rights and gay rights, and for helping anybody who needs help," Don McLaughlin said.

Her mother, Susan McLaughlin, said her daughter volunteered on weekends for an organization in or near Oakland to help girls learn how to program.

The McLaughlins and their older daughter, Laura, went to Santa Barbara on Tuesday to try to learn more about their daughter's fate. They stayed one night and returned on Wednesday after a sheriff's briefing when they couldn't find out any more information.

Don McLaughlin said he couldn't imagine how the parents of the person who remains missing are coping.

Besides her sister, Laura, Carrie McLaughlin had a brother-in-law and two young nephews. The family is still processing her loss and hasn't set any memorial plans yet, Don McLaughlin said.


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