Three people whose small boat overturned on the Delaware River, dumping them into the water Sunday night, were picked up about 11 hours later by another vessel off Woodland Beach.
The rescued boaters were returned to shore at Flemings Landing around 9:15 a.m. Monday, where an ambulance took two of them to Kent General Hospital for evaluation for hypothermia and exposure.
All three are from the Middletown area, officials said.
Joseph Phillips Jr., 51, declined treatment. Dorothy Griffin, 54, and Richard Bush, 49, were taken to Kent General.
Sgt. Tim Pritchett, a state fish and wildlife enforcement agent, said the three had left in their small open boat -- about 14 to 15 feet long -- from the Port Penn-Augustine Beach area around 8 p.m. Sunday to go fishing.
About an hour and a half later, someone stood up on the boat, causing it to teeter and capsize, Pritchett said.
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