A man who prompted an international rescue operation by drunkenly swimming across the Detroit River from Canada to the US has admitted it was "really stupid".
A sheepish John Morillo told The Windsor Star that, in retrospect, he realises he should never have attempted Monday night's bet after a night of drinking with friends.
"I was drinking, but I wasn't really drunk," Mr Morillo said.
"The thing is, I've been telling people I'm going to swim across the river for years and they're like 'yah, yah, blah, blah, you can't make it.' So, I don't know, last night I just decided it was the time to go."
The 47-year-old said he regrets causing problems for authorities, including Windsor police and Coast Guard crews from the US and Canada.
Three boats and a helicopter responded, amid warnings that the river's current makes a dangerous place to swim.
The strip of water between Windsor and Detroit is a busy shipping route "As soon I saw the helicopters going by and the boats looking for me, I was like 'oh, this is really stupid,'" Morillo told the newspaper.
Police in Windsor initially responded around 11.30pm, when one of his neighbours called to say she had lost sight of him about a half-hour earlier.
The repentant swimmer made it across to Detroit, getting out of the water downtown, and was swimming back when he was found about 12.50 am by the US Coast Guard.
During his stop on the Detroit side of the river he said people wanted to take his picture.
"There was one woman, she said she was from Windsor and she thought I was crazy," he said. "She was right."
Mr Morillo was cited for being intoxicated in a public place and released from jail later on Tuesday.
He said he was told that he will also likely be fined between $5,000 and $25,000 for swimming in a shipping channel.
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