Two adult males were waterfowl hunting from a canoe. While they shot four times at approaching geese the canoe capsized in 3-4 feet of water. As the canoe capsized one of the firearms discharged. One of the occupants was struck in the hand with pellets and the other sustained a minor hand injury when the canoe capsized. Investigators determined that the capsize was due to the heigh of the victim's sitting poisition, wind gusts and unstable characteriscs of a fully loaded canoe and recoil of the shotgun blasts the canoe capsized. Both victims were able to get themselves out of the water and drive themselves to a nearby hospital for medical treatement.
East Lyme                     