On May 13,2011 at approximately 2:00pm 3 male subjects were fishing at the mouth of the Choptank River. They were in a 20 ft. outboard when their fishing lines and planer boards got caught on crab pot lines and in the process of freeing those lines their engine prop got wrapped up in a crab pot line and their fishing lines. At this point, water started coming over the stern of the vessel. All 3 men doned P.F.D's and the operator made a distress call on his V.H.F. All 3 men got in the water and the vessel proceeded to roll over. They hung on the overturned vessel until a "Good Smaritan" picked them up.  U.S.C.G picked them up off of that vessel and took them to shore. There were no injuries sustained and no first aid given.A commercial tow vessel brought the overturned vessel to shore.
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