EAM also sells a line of lower priced, non-TSO’d rafts, its « EAM » series. Some of these rafts are rated at higher capacities, even though they are sized exactly the same as the TSO’d rafts. For example, the EAM-5 (5-person) is the exact same size as the TSO’d 4 person raft. EAM explained they do this to compete against « the others, » using SPI’s rating as an example. Due to overcrowding, I would caution against relying on EAM’s inflated capacity ratings for these non-TSO’d rafts, just as with SPI’s misleading capacity ratings.
CQFD !