Missing kayaker's body found

The body of a Woodbury man was pulled from the Delaware River by National Park firefighters Sunday night, a day after he disappeared during a kayaking trip.

A New Jersey State Police spokesman identified the dead man as George Cole, 55. He said that the body had been sent to the Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy and that no cause of death had been determined.

The day before, Cole's wife had reported him missing, setting off a six-hour search Saturday, assisted by the U.S. Coast Guard, according to local police and firefighters.

Mark Gismondi, chief of the National Park Fire Department, said the search resumed Sunday morning, aided by state police. What started Saturday as a rescue effort had become a recovery mission by Sunday, Gismondi said.

Recreational activities in the search area were prohibited.

Earlier, Saturday afternoon, near Lower Makefield, the body of another man between 25 and 35 that appeared to have been in the water "for a while" was found by a boater, police said.

Cpl. Tom Augustin said the body of this man had been turned over to the Bucks County Coroner's Office and that an autopsy was scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday.

Augustin said police did not know whether the recovered body was that of the man who went missing Aug. 10 in Tinicum Township. Anthony Del Prete, 30, of Herndon, Va., slipped out of his inner tube at the end of a four-hour floating excursion and has not been found.