Police have identified the boater from New York who drowned after falling overboard in the Stamford Harbor late Saturday night.
Fire officials said crews responded around 11:25 p.m. on Saturday for a report of a boater unaccounted for in Stamford Harbor. Other people on the boat noticed the boater was missing when they arrived at the harbor after traveling from New York.
The man was last seen on the rear swim platform of a 38-foot cabin cruiser that was nearing the docks in Stamford Harbor, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection's Environmental Conservation (DEEP) said.
Crews including Stamford fire, the U.S. Coast Guard, Darien police, Stamford police and Greenwich police all began searching both the water and the shore for the missing boater.
The 51-year-old man from Harrison, New York, was identified as Jose Diaz and he was found in the water around 12:38 a.m. Diaz was rushed to Stamford Hospital but did not survive, police said.
DEEP police are investigating.
