hit the other boat. >> john ottenschot, a construction worker, said he was riding in a boat on cayuga lakeand he said the boat hit something, although he didn't know what it was. >> it's just -- it was so dark. overcast. we couldn't see anything in the lake. i knew we didn't hit a log. i don't think it would take us out of the water as far as it did, because we were all the way out of the water. we did know we hit something big. >> ottenschot claimed they circled back to see what they hit but didn't see anything, so they drove their boat to the launch, removed it from the water, and drove home. he identified the driver of the boat as his co-worker, floyd wright. he said he wanted wright to go to the police with him, but wright refused. >> and he says, well, i don't want to lose my job. i'm going to lose my job. i'm going to lose my house. i says, well, this guy lost his life. this is wrong. >> when police questioned floyd wright, he, too, said he didn't know what they hit. >> it was a head-on collision. it was nose to nose. >> we don't know because we didn't see it. >> i know because i've