These boaters know where the cameras are. And therein lies the problem. Hundreds of thousands of people are tuning in on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and more to watch scenes recorded at Baker’s Haulover Inlet and the Miami River in South Florida, where hootin’ and hollerin’ boaters who might otherwise be flopping over frat-house railings are instead flying over bowrails and falling off foredecks. Video after video online shows hands raised high in the air with cold beverages, women dropping their bikini tops, and men bouncing so out of control that they soar right off their personal watercraft and into the drink.
“Every time we have to tow a boat on the weekend, it is a war zone,” Capt.