Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating after one man died and another was injured when their boat capsized at the mouth of Fire Island Inlet.
Christopher Sicignano was operating a boat entering the Fire Island Inlet when the boat capsized in rough water. Sicignano and his passenger, David Johnson, who were not wearing life jackets, were thrown into the water. The boat then sank.
A passing boater reported the incident via UHF radio and Suffolk County Police Marine Bureau officers and the United States Coast Guard responded.
Sicignano, 68, of Lindenhurst, was transported to the Robert Moses State Park Boat Basin by a good Samaritan and then transported by the West Islip Fire Department Rescue Squad to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, where he was treated and released.
Johnson, 70, of Lindenhurst, was transported by the Coast Guard to Coast Guard Station-Babylon and then transported by the West Islip Fire Department Rescue Squad to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, where he was pronounced dead.
Detectives are asking anyone with information on this incident to call the Homicide Squad at 631-852-6392.