A group of river tubers has been found in just their swimming costumes after a water, air, and land search following a three-day disappearance. Michigan State Police said Tuesday that two women and a child had gotten lost in Michigan during what was supposed to be a four-hour jaunt. Police Lt. Pat Agema said Jazzmin Hock, 28, her cousin Sarah Vida, 28, and Vida’s nine-year-old son were treated for cuts, exhaustion, and dehydration. Cops said that they had hit a logjam in the Muskegon River in Western Michigan, which had caused their tube to deflate. The wreck was found on the second day of the search, while the father of one of the missing women said he’d found his daughter’s car with a smashed window at Maple Island Boat Launch in Grant. In footage taken by a pair of rescuing state troopers and a trio of Michigan Department of Natural Resources, the nine-year-old can be seen saying, “We got lost on the river. We went to the river, and we were on the river for four hours.” “I can’t believe that three people, allegedly in bathing suits, with no shoes on, were making the trek through that swamp,” said State Trooper Zach Murphy, calling the rescue a “fourth-quarter, fourth-down, Hail Mary victory.”
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