The remains of two men missing since a deadly Labor Day boat crash in Connecticut have been recovered, officials announced.
Officers with the state environmental conservation police discovered the first body shortly after noon on Friday in the mouth of the Connecticut River — between Old Saybrook and Old Lyme — about a quarter-mile from the site of the accident, Environmental Conservation Police Capt. Keith Williams said.
Crews found the second body a few hours later, around 4:30 p.m., the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection confirmed.
Neither man’s identity was immediately released nor were their causes of death, which will be determined by the Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. No other details were provided.
The crash happened in Old Saybrook on Monday night around 9:15 p.m.
According to DEEP, a 31-foot boat carrying nine friends home from a day-trip to Block Island slammed into a jetty by an Old Saybrook marina, near where the Connecticut river flows into Long Island Sound.
When first responders arrived on the scene, they found the single-engine motorboat stuck and half-submerged in water at the mouth of the river.
In the immediate aftermath of the crash, first responders rescued six people from the water, all of whom were hospitalized. While they mostly suffered minor injuries, Williams on Tuesday said one person had been listed in critical condition.
Crews also pulled the body of 34-year-old Christopher Hallahan from the partially sunken vessel late Monday night, officials said.
The medical examiner determined Hallahan drowned and has since ruled his death an accident.
The search for the other two missing passengers dragged on for days after the crash and involved multiple agencies, including police and fire crews from several nearby towns, the State Police Dive Unit, and a helicopter from the U.S. Coast Guard station on Cape Cod
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