Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the drowning death of a man in West Sayville today.

Jan Zdenek was crabbing at the West Sayville docks, located on West Avenue,  when witnesses discovered him in the water at 2:30 p.m. The good Samaritans pulled him from the water and attempted to resuscitate him.

Zdenek, 82, of Sayville, was transported by Sayville Community Ambulance to Southside Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.