The Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Ind. - Two students from China who got separated from a group on a canoe outing at Turkey Run State Park were missing for 19 hours before searchers discovered them Saturday.

The young men were tired and had mosquito bites, but were otherwise in good condition, Indiana Conservation Officers said in a news release.

The two were among seven students of Indiana-Purdue University at Indianapolis who left on an 11-mile canoe trip in the park Friday morning.

Ruoming Gu and Song Shang - both aged 22, with less than one year as students at IUPUI - went ahead of the group and paddled past a prearranged rendezvous point at a bridge in the park in western Indiana's Parke County.

After the rest of the group waited for the two students to no avail at the rendezvous point, conservation officers and Indiana State Police began searching Friday evening.

Searchers who looked for the students from the air and on foot failed to find them Friday night, and resumed the search Saturday morning. Conservation officers who used a specialized air boat to navigate the shallows of Sugar Creek found the men in a remote area more than 3 miles downstream from the rendezvous point.

The men had two Snickers candy bars with them, and split one between them Friday night and the other Saturday morning.