Swan boat possibly overloaded; swimmers warned


Audio of responders reporting a swan boat that appeared overloaded with five adults and people swimming off Little Italy. Swimmers were told to get out of the water and given a verbal warning; they were also advised to shower.
Audio|Source: Livingston County Public Safety/MSP District 1 North
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Transcript:
to 14. I was trying to get a whole vote around to get that number. It looked overloaded to me. Is there five people total or is there children on there, too? Five adults. Okay. They were in the water for several minutes. You may want to advise them to take a nice bleach bath. Don't have left. On our paperwork, it says that you can have five people on a character boat up to... One thousand four hundred pounds. Copy, thank you. Copy. They've been advised to stay out of the water. 4755 your status. Sure. Station 4 to 1916. We have the chase boat rental on the phone. Do you need assistance from them? That's a negative. I was just trying to inquire what the capacities were for that boat. It looked like more than five from the shoreline. But 14s handled it. We're good. Maybe have some to be available to answer radio for when we call them. Can you repeat? I was on the phone. I said if you could just advise them to have somebody available to answer their radio when we need to get a hold of them. 104 already did that. 14. Also verbal warning for swimming off of Little Italy. 104. 1745.
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Livingston County, MI
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