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Sometimes your day doesn’t go as planned...

For 45 years we’ve been
assisting boaters “24/7” on

Lake St. Clair

EMERGENCY SERVICES VHF Channel 19 Besides maintaining boater safety on the water,
the Marine Sheriff’s deputies provide security &
Phone: 586-468-2430 assistance at all our waterfront & on the water
Towing
Oil Spills events, festivals, boat races, and fireworks
Salvage & Diving Photo Sergeant Don Berg @ Port Huron/Sarnia
Ice Recovery - St. Clair River Int’l Offshore Race
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and in a lot of areas, over our heads! Rafts were a necessity to
Summer Well Rental safely make our way around through the “Gauntlet” of the Raft
Winter Storage Off and the “Mosh Pit” at Aquapalooza. The St. Clair & Macomb
Winterization County Marine Sheriff Deputies were very concerned and relieved
Shrink Wrap no one drowned. After seeing the large crowds traversing the deep
water on foot on day #1 of Aquapalooza, the Macomb Marine
Maintenance/Repairs Sheriff Deputies brought out several boxes of PFD’s on day #2
and handed them out to “swimmers” throughout the day who were
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Photo: Sergeant Donald Berg, @ Aquapalooza
St. Clair County Sheriff Marine Division

become #3 in attendance behind the Raft Off and Aquapalooza.

Since it’s the first event of the season in late June, the water tem-

perature is still quite chilly (was 68 degrees) which slows a lot of

swimmers entering the water. Difficulty too of anchoring around

Gull Island limits the much larger crowds that congregate in An-

chor Bay & Muscamoot Bay for Aquapalooza and the Raft Off.

Lake St. Clair area boaters attended several huge events Again, thanks for keeping us safe at Jobbie Nooner! We
with 1000’s of boats in 2015, and in the Marine Sheriff’s eyes, had an “international” security presence Continued on next page

The Sheriff handed out PFD’s to were all success-
swimmers who were literally over ful. With the
their head making their way to the higher water, av-
eraging at least a
“Mosh Pit” foot or more for

the season, the Although a beautiful day for Jobbie Nooner
Lake St. Clair at Gull Island in June, the water was only
water level was
up to our chins 68° which kept a lot of us on our boats

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