The captain and two other employees of a tour boat company were charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter in the sinking. Seventeen people, including a family and several children, were killed when it sank.
OLD LYME, Conn. (AP) — Authorities on Friday found the bodies of both men who had been missing for four days after a boat carrying nine people crashed into a jetty along the Connecticut shoreline.
State environmental conservation police officers located the first body in the mouth of the Connecticut River between Old Saybrook and Old Lyme shortly after noon, about a quarter-mile (four-tenths of a kilometer) from the site of the accident, Police Capt. Keith Williams said.
The second man’s body was found around 4:30 p.m., the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said in an emailed statement.
Both men’s names are being withheld pending family notification, officials said.
The crash killed another man, Christopher Hallahan, 34, of Westbrook. Connecticut, and injured six other people who were taken to a hospital.
Authorities responded to the accident shortly after 9 p.m. on Monday and found the 31-foot (9-meter) motorboat half submerged and significantly damaged near an Old Saybrook marina where the river flows into Long Island Sound. Police said the boat struck a jetty at the mouth of the river. The cause of the crash is being investigated.
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