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We are currently sitting about 400 feet above a couple of barrels at Lake Fremont, Wyoming. And in those barrels are bodies.
Recovery team uses drones and custom tech to retrieve bodies from a 46-year-old cold case at 400 ft deep Fremont Lake, Wyoming.
Key Takeaways
- Advanced technology like underwater drones can enable recovery operations in extreme conditions where human divers cannot safely go.
- Custom engineering solutions, such as the grapple claw, are critical for handling fragile, decades-old evidence underwater.
- Collaboration between search and rescue teams, law enforcement, and technical experts is essential for successful cold case recoveries.
- Providing closure to victims' families is a key motivation behind challenging recovery missions.
- Logistical planning and funding are significant factors in executing complex underwater recovery operations.
What the video covers
- The video documents a recovery mission at Fremont Lake, Wyoming, to retrieve bodies from barrels submerged for 46 years.
- The case involves a mother named Virginia and her two sons, whose bodies were recently located after the killer disclosed their location.
- Due to extreme depth (400 feet), cold temperature, and safety concerns, human divers cannot perform the recovery; underwater drones and custom machinery are used instead.
- A specialized claw/grapple device was designed and tested to securely lift brittle barrels without damaging their contents.
- The team includes experts like Doug Bishop, known for underwater recoveries, and partners from OSAR and local authorities.
- The operation involves complex logistics, including helicopter transport, crane trucks, boats, and coordination with multiple agencies.
- The video also features a sponsor segment promoting the Upside app, which helps save money on fuel and other expenses.
- The recovery is described as one of the most difficult and important cold case recoveries in the country.
- The team uses buoys to mark the barrel location and underwater drones to guide the grapple device for retrieval.
- The mission aims to provide closure to the family and community by recovering and respectfully handling the remains.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction to the Cold Case and Location
- 02:12Challenges of Deep Water Recovery and Use of Technology
- 04:21Sponsor Segment: Upside App for Fuel Savings
- 05:49Team and Equipment Overview for Recovery
- 07:30Design and Testing of the Grapple Claw Device
- 09:17Underwater Drone Operations and Barrel Location
- 15:39Recovery Process and Overcoming Technical Issues
- 25:31Successful Retrieval and Reflections on the Mission
- 29:10Closing Remarks and Acknowledgements
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And they have been down there for 46 years as part of a murder case that didn't have any answers for a long time.
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Recently, the killer chose to share with authorities where he dumped the bodies, and we've been working with Bill and his team from OSAR. We've been working with the local authorities, agencies, and we finally got the approval to come out here and recover
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those bodies that have been sitting down there for 46 years. There's a mother named Virginia and her two sons. The mother is in a barrel and the two sons are in a trash can together.
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Absolute tragedy. But every tragedy can have somewhat of a happy ending. And the happy ending for this case is the closure of bringing them out of this lake and taking them to their final resting place. And, you know,
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the family and the people who have wondered for years what happened to them? What did he do with their bodies?
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Well, today we're going to answer that question. We find ourselves at the beginning of a new recovery, a new adventure. This is kind of a sad one, but it's also kind of a happy one.
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The planning on this one is pretty gnarly. I mean, we're going down 400 feet deep in a mountain lake to recover three bodies. So, there's a lot that can go wrong. Everything's got to be perfect.
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Nobody will be diving simply because it's too deep, too cold, unsafe. Humans can't help in the water on this one. We're going to have to use our brains and our machines.
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Thank me later. All right, we just rolled up to Fremont Lake, and we flew the helicopter in. Hans and some of the guys drove my Dynamax RV and then pulled the boat up here with the attachment that we built to do
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this recovery. This is actually like one of the biggest recoveries, like cold case recoveries, that's ever happened in the country.
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And the best part about it is we got my dude, my guy, the man, the myth, the bishop right here, Mr. Doug Bishop. You guys know, anytime we have a problem in the water, he's our guy. Even outside of
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the water, like Doug's just a solid dude. But this is Doug's specialty. He literally goes underwater and recovers people, cars, all kinds of stuff. Doug's not going to be—well, if everything goes well, Doug will not be
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diving. If things go sideways, Doug might have to dive. And the reason for that is because it's 400 feet deep. Like, it's impossible, right?
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Yeah. We don't know how it's going to react coming up through the atmospheres as it's been down there for 46 years. So, the pressure changes, we don't know how it's going to react.
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So, if I do have to get in the water, we can get in the water at about 150 feet.
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Right. So, we're letting the drone do the hard work underwater today. And then the attachment that we built is actually pretty neat. It's going to do all of the grabbing for us so that we don't have to have somebody down there manually
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rigging it up. And we tested it. It worked in 8 feet of water, so it should work in 400 feet of water. Anyways, we're just stoked to have Doug here. If you haven't already, you got to check out Doug's
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channel. Don't sleep on Doug's content. It's like some of the most premium quality content on YouTube, and he's just super chill about it. He's not out there like putting it out for everybody to see. He just kind of posts a video
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and then he goes and does his work. Goes and saves another, you know, solves another cold case and helps another family. So, I'm going to link it below.
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Look it up. Doug Bishop YouTube. Check it out. What you guys are about to witness is going to be one of the most difficult and most important cold case recoveries you guys have ever seen.
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We got the boat in the water, obviously, and we're bringing the contraption down right now on Brian's crane truck, and we're going to use the front of the cranes on our boat to basically pick it off the back of his crane truck and then
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just dangle it out over the front of the boat as we cruise out. This is a very complex operation, guys. Like, I don't know if you understand just how crazy this is. Like 400 feet deep is no joke.
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These bodies in these barrels have been down there since 1980. So that's like 46 years.
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Is building a claw like that the best solution for this? Do you think? So when they first brought this case to us and showed me the drone footage of the barrels, we spent a lot of time thinking like how the hell are
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we going to get those up? Because they're laying on their side on the bottom of the lake. They're old. They're 40-something years old, right? And so they're a little bit brittle, so if you like do anything to them, they're going
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to potentially fall apart, and we don't want to lose the contents of what's inside the barrel, right? So we thought about nets, we thought about magnets, we thought about all sorts of different options. But when it came down to it,
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Bill, with Search 911, that's who we work with on some of these bigger rescues, he was just dead set on this grapple. And it took me a minute to fully wrap my head
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around what he was thinking, but he came down and designed it with my guys in the shop, Irom and the gang, and it's like the only way to get this barrel up with the most certainty, meaning as
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soon as we clamp onto it, it's not going anywhere. It's going to stay put.
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Thank you. So you'll see, obviously, we've got Forest Service, we've got law enforcement, we've got the rest of our search crew and other boats, and then we have two big underwater drones that are searching right now. Remember, we're at about 400
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feet deep right here. So right over here, you'll see there's a couple of buoys. Those buoys are basically marking the area where the barrel was found.
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We're going to see the drone pop up right here too. So, this is our partner, Bill. This is our search and rescue partner. This one you've been working on forever.
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Forever, right? Yeah. I can't say how thankful I am for your team. They've just freaking knocked it out of the park.
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I got good guys. Yeah. I'm not good at anything, but my guys are good at everything, so I just show up and break [ __ ]. It's the same over here.
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Do we have the barrel located yet? We've already been on the barrel where you sa...
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We're going to just have these drop straight down to the bottom. Yep. We built a clamshell grapple bucket that we're going to lower off the front of our rescue boat here. Position over the barrel as it's laying on its side. And
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we have a mechanism that allows us to close the clam shell and we can lift it to the surface. So this we spent the last 2 weeks engineering, designing, building, and testing. Iram, my shop manager, um, lead fabricator, just one
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of the not just smartest, but most capable with like common sense. I'm talking I'm talking to you. I'm talking I'm talking about that guy right there. Listen, I have a whole team behind me, Dave.
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It's not just me. I know. I know. I know. But Iram is is the leader of a very smart, capable team. He's got a good point. All the guys in the shop get together. But like I can tell Iram, "Hey man, I want to go
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to the moon." And he'll be like, "Well, do you want to be there on Tuesday or Wednesday?" Like that's literally he's just he can make [ __ ] happen with our shop crew, which is one of the best
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crews in the world in my opinion. Um, literally build anything. We have got the right crew, we got the right equipment, and we've got the approvals, and we've got everything we need to bring closure to this absolute tragic
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case. just know that we're we're going into this with the utmost sense of reverence and respect for those who are deceased and their loved ones. Um, solid crew. We got Brian Garner, my buddy from Atlas Towing. We got Allan from Yankham
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Ropes. When it came to recovering this, we couldn't just drop a regular old tow rope down to the bottom of 400 ft deep.
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So, we had Allan basically build us this custom what 8,000lb rated. So 8,000 lbs, two lengths of 600 foot long quarter inch uh basically winch line rated at about 8,000 lbs. So this is more than enough to be able to do the job that
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we're doing today, but it's nice cuz it's light. It's easy to maneuver, easy to handle, and we're running it through our winch system on the front on our mile marker winch, which this winch is way overkill, but it actually works
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perfectly for what we're trying to do cuz we're using as basically uh a windless kind of like a capstone endless marine winch. Essentially, we're I'm playing the world's most difficult claw game. So, wish me luck.
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I'm down. I'm down. Got to run. I'm safe. I'm safe. I'm safe. Okay. Cricket.
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We're safe now. You want to try that quick? All right. got the cage, the grapple down in the water. Um, and now it's just a matter of, this is the part where we play the claw game. I'm trying to keep the boat
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stationary as much as possible. And it's hard cuz when you're in the water, you don't know, you know, where you're at.
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You don't know if you're moving or not. Luckily, I got a buoy right over here.
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That's kind of my point of reference. And I stay about 50 m southwest of that buoy. So, if I keep it right at like my 9:00, that tells me that I'm basically in the same spot.
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So we're at 410. You need to come up with 360. So claw or claw needs to come up 50 ft.
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Correction 380 and current depth is 410. All right. Hey guys, the clock needs to come up 30 ft.
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light on it. Yeah, I got to like two glow sticks in there. High position right here.
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We just um just accomplished one of the hardest parts, which was having the drone find the claw down at 390 ft deep.
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Stand by doing it. So, it shows that we now have the two uh married together, which is important because we are blind with the um claw without the drone. So luckily now that they're together, the drone can guide us
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to where the barrel is. And from there, just slowly work our way over to uh over the top of it.
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something effective. Yep. Yeah, I'm good with that. All right. Hey, pull it all the way up.
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We're going to we're going to go reset. So, we're going to go back to uh the dock, reset, talk through everything.
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For some reason, we were losing communication. We weren't having good comms with the drone and the visibility.
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If I can't see on this screen in front of me where the uh drone is, then I certainly can't find the barrel and I can't just if they call out an instruction and say, "Okay, 10 to the left." Well, I go to 10 to the left and
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I got 380 or 400 ft of lag time on this giant pendulum of a crane or a grapple arm behind below me. So, when I move the the grapple's going to move like 10 12 seconds later. So, we've been within 5
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10 ft of it pretty much for the last hour. We're just blind. Can't can't see anything. So, we got to fix the the comms and the visibility issue.
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We got a good game plan now. We just had a uh good little break, reset, got some food, got some lunch, charged some batteries, uh and made a good plan. One drone will be basically babysitting the cage. He'll follow me all the way down.
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He's going to find where we're at and then he's going to guide me to where the other drone is, which will be parked right on the barrel. We have approximately 3 hours to get this done before it's got
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to call it a day. So, I feel like we got it. I feel good about it. So, let's go.
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So, Drone one has found the claw. Now he's uh you'll see here in a second he's going to be hooking up to it. Once he's hooked onto it, then all we got to do is have drone one go over and find drone two. Drone two is
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sitting on the barrel. Be a business, baby. So here's our winch line. Now old boy's got to descend a little bit.
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He's going to find us. No, cuz it have no points cuz it doesn't have to.
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Hey boys, go up 5T. Coming up about five. What is that? It's a license plate on the buoyer.
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Oh, hey, hold the drone right there for me, please. On that on that shot, please hold there. Hi, is our line tangled?
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It's like tangled around. Wait for it to clear out. It is on the lock.
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Oh, yeah. It's the buoy line. Why is the buoy line? So, we're tangled up on our buoy line.
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We're closed. We got to come up. Hey, uh the grapple's closed. We got to come up anyways. Hey, uh Sparks, looks like our grapple is closed. So, we're going to be coming up for a fresh start.
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If you guys want to come up and use a battery. So, we're going to bring the uh bucket or the the claw. I don't know what to call this damn thing. Let's call it Jaws. We're going to bring Jaws back
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up and we're going to open the Jaws back up. We got our drone boat over there.
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So, just this is what you're seeing right here. But look what's happening in real life over there. Look, pan over there. That's our drone boat, right?
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Drone boat number one. That's this view that we're seeing right here. Drone boat number two is them right there. Those guys have a continuous power drone, which means it uh doesn't run out of batteries. It's just got a tether and
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it's got continuous power. So, you can see the drone depth right here. They're coming up. Cruising pretty quick. 220, 210, 215. Coming up. Um, while we winch up our uh, basket jaws, we're going to adjust it. We're going to drop it down.
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Drones are going to do their thing. We're going to pop it on there. And within about 45 minutes, we will have that barrel coming to the top. Mark my words. Set a timer.
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these. Maybe let's not film how far past 45 minutes we watch. It took way longer to change the springs on Jaws than I expected.
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Show me the one. So dark like it's been 30 minutes. Yeah. One thing light turned on.
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We got sweet. We got eyes on our basket. Visuals back up. Uh be curious if you have a different cam right now. It's all in the road.
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All right, let's go. This is it. Standing to get our sonar back. This is complicated.
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We're tracking straight south from the target. 30 ft straight south. So the claw needs to go 30 ft straight south.
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Pay firm. Move 30 ft straight south. You ready to mark me again, Doug? Yeah, go ahead and mark that.
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10 ft for Jaws. Hold. What is it? The compass. I actually like that those buoys are further out.
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We're tracking. You still need to go further south. here. Right on top of them.
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Are you guys in a position to drop? Yeah. Okay. All right. I thought you got this.
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All right. So, we're close. We're within like 10 15 ft of that barrel. Um, unfortunately the uh drone who we're using for our eyes just lost uh he ran he ran through a full battery. Got us really close. The other drone that is
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continuous power is still down there. We've got some good way points marked here on the Garmin. So we know roughly where I need to be. We are going to reset. Drones are going to come to the surface. And uh now we know kind of
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right where we need to be. Give it another go. Get in here if you want to cover.
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Okay. Yeah. Well, right now we are guiding our friends who are unable to go full speed in this type of uh storm. It's raining really hard. So, we're just trying to take our time safely to get them back to
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the to the uh dock and we'll regroup there and do it all again tomorrow.
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How'd it go? How'd it go? Overall, overall, I think today was a huge success. We learned that we were capable of getting the claw down there successfully guiding it with the drones. So, now it's just fine-tuning uh positioning lights
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as well as a few other parameters. But huge success because we know it's going to work.
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Yeah. Heat. All right, day two on Lake Fremont. Last night was crazy. As you guys saw, that storm, those were some of the biggest raindrops I've ever seen. It just poured. It's about the same plan as yesterday. The only difference is we're
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going to try to anchor. The only reason we haven't tried to anchor yet is because it's 400 ft deep. And anchoring in 400t deep, you got to be more prepared. It's hard to stay right where you're trying to be, especially with a
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big boat, you know, this big, this much wind. And I feel like we should be able to uh be pretty stable. Great people doing great things together to better the community. And that's what it's all about. Doing things that are going to
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Hype the video. If you don't, that's just on you. Heat. Heat. All right. So, after yesterday, today we're going to do some reinforcements. Bigger, better, more efficient. We're going to use my dive lights that I would normally use when I'm diving. So, we have the
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Dive Right CX3s that we're going to put onto the Jaws itself. Um, they're rated for 330 ft. We're trying to get down near 400 ft. So, we're going to see what these lights are made of. We're also using the solar light that I would
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usually have on my wrist. It's also rated for 100 m, 330 ft. We also bought some Neos that we've reinforced. We've reinforced them with uh silicone tape, Gorilla tape, and some silicone gel in the seals. So, we'll see if it works.
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This should give us a lot better clarity down there, visibility as far as being able to identify the barrel, the jaws, coordinate everything together. So, more light's going to allow us to be more efficient. We'll see how it turns out.
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I'll show you in a minute once we get them all just Yeah. Brian's on that cleat right by you. Ira cle take the end of Brian's rope right there and put it on that cleat. If you want to
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tie it on, let's drag it back to where it needs to go. Get it tight.
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Yeah. It's tight. Cut the lines. I'm done with these anchors. They're not going to work.
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There's just too much weight. the headline now. You're tired of playing around and shit's about to happen in the boat.
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Yeah, it is. Yeah. All right. Um, been a little bit of a frustrating day so far just because this is a very complicated recovery. I mean, bottom line, uh, the weather's not been ideal. The anchor solution that we
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were working on didn't work at all. It's just this boat's way too heavy and the wind is way too strong out there. So, we need to get some legit anchors, which uh along with that, we need to get some
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legit anchor rope kind of. So last year we were up 500. Where there's a problem, there's a solution.
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Those are solutions you see sitting right there. All right. big time. That wrong. Yeah.
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All right. Mark that surface area on the block is enough that it has springs.
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There we go. Hit the bottom. We're on bottom. So, we need to put a buoy right here.
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This right here is what makes crabbing in Alaska so deadly. from all the rope going down to the ocean floor. This causes a lot of deaths. This process right here, one misstep, one wrong, one wrong foot, you're going straight to the
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bottom with it. Grab that. Stop. All right, we're on the bottom. So, we've got our uh 1,000lb concrete blocks down. Uh this one went down about 400 350 ft. That one over there went down forever. Not 100% sure what
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happened with that one. It It took a whole spool of 400t rope. That's not ideal. Anchoring and trying to get a precise angle while you have anchor ropes down 500 feet is damn near impossible because you have all that
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rope, the tension from the rope underwater fighting you. So, we pull forward to our spot and the rope wants to pull straight back just because of all that tension in the rope. Ideally, we would have two more anchors.
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Basically, put a square box around this thing and be able to anchor front and rear in all directions. We're like 30 40 ft away from the barrel right now and I can just kind of swing the front of the
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boat over there and the anchors are going to hold us from pull pushing too far forward. So weather is supposed to be clear all night until the morning. So now's the time to get it.
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Hold your position. Copy that. We're within inches now. Just one. Drop bucket 5 ft.
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Dropping bucket 5 ft. Drop bucket 5 ft down. Is that very slow? Uh, we are just about there. You can see here on our screen, we've got jaws essentially directly over the barrel.
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The anchors are holding perfectly. Now, we're just making small fine-tune adjustments and getting ready to drop down. Oh, we are like right over it.
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This is this is the moment we've been waiting for. And the weather is holding up. Um, the boat is holding position pretty well.
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This is one drop. 5 ft. Five down. Oh, we are right on top of it, dude.
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Copy that. That's what it's all about. It's crazy. literally literally inches away from returning somebody's loved one that's been missing for a half a century.
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That's crazy. In one of the deepest lakes in America, nothing like this has ever been done. Fremont Lake is ranked number 17 out of all the lakes in America, which is hundreds of thousands of lakes.
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Super deep. Tell me this is some of the most intense things you've ever done in this wild.
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You guys are on the target. All right, all stations, are we ready to close the clamshell?
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Ready. All right, boys. Let's do it. All right, let's close it up. Uh, we are as close as it gets. This is It's really special stuff. You know, she's been missing for almost a half a century. She's got no family left. She
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was viciously executed along with her two young children. And she's been in one of the nation's deepest lakes for 46 years. A lot of people had to come together. a lot of resources, personnel, organizations, assets drawn to get to
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this moment. We're literally looking at the jaws inches away from closing and bringing her to the surface and home.
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That's real special stuff. It's We're barely getting tight right now. You got to keep rolling.
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Clamshell is closing. It's moving. It's going. Keep coming. Keep coming. Keep coming. Keep coming. Keep coming.
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Keep coming. Good grab. Keep going. Keep coming. Let's go. Go up. Up. Up. Up. Up.
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Jaws closed. I believe we have the barrel. Keep going. Hold there real quick so we can uh confirm.
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Hold. We are not losing it from here. OR1. This is OR 2. We're going to slowly move in to get a visual on the barrel.
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Okay. One. Copy. That's why I made the three steps. And then as it comes up, we get a good view underneath of the logos and stuff later on when it starts to come up. We got we got a couple hundred feet for that
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sparks to one. Let us come up another 10 ft so you guys get a visual on the bottom. As we go up, all the silt that's built up around the side of that barrel is going to clear out and it's going to
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make more room for that clam shell to keep closing tighter. Let them know that sparks negative. Drone is over the cage right now. Drone is over the cage.
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There's another drone. Uh, clear. We are clear now. Get ready to go. Okay, folks. This is one one confirms barrel is in the basket. Uh, we'll follow you up. Stand by to raise.
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15 minutes to get out. Hey, firm. All units raise. We did it. We got the barrel. Now, let's just hope she's in there. All the way.
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All the way. So, the the only thing that can truly describe this is that it's 100% God's work.
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Virginia and her children have spent the last 46 years at the bottom of this lake nearly 400 ft deep. Executed in one of the most horrific ways by somebody they arguably trusted more than anyone else in the world.
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Virginia's mother Claire spent her entire life fighting for answers of what happened to her daughter Virginia and her grandsons.
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She tragically died months before those answers came. So, she never was able to understand what happened to her daughter or her grandchildren.
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Not only is she up there in the heaven watching down finally figuring out what happened, somebody's out here fighting for the answers she spent her whole life fighting for. It's happening right now.
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You guys are seeing it. Heat. Heat. This is Virginia, Richard, and Reagan. These were all taken shortly before they were all three executed right here in Wyoming.
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Now we need to sit down hands. Yeah. Which control? Which one? That's awesome. 5 more.
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Hold on. Hold. Let me hold on. This this rope right here. I don't think so.
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You don't think that that prom is going to get this start? Yeah, we couldn't have done this without yanking man.
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Oh, thanks for thanks for letting me be on the boat. It's it's a team effort and I'm just a little tiny cog in the gear, you know. I think that the the coolest thing about everything was just just hearing about the whole
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story about everybody coming together to make this happen. I'm just grateful to be here to see this happen, to see it go all the way through. I mean, I I always hear stories about all kinds of heroic things that our
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customers do. It's completely different when you get to see it, be a part of it.
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This is awesome. Nice Heat Heat. Heat. You can set it like this and then you can manually move it to people on all corners.
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Perfect. Okay, windshine off and it's all yours. It can stop just wherever it's dry right there. Looks good.
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Test it and see. Yeah. See if you can do. So, yesterday was crazy. That was one of the most like I don't even know how to explain it.
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Everything about this recovery has just been like spectacular. tragic, exciting, terrifying. I mean, there's just so many things, so many variables that we've been up against on this. Last night when when we saw the uh grapple go down and grab that barrel, it
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like didn't even feel real because the first day and even the second day in the morning when we were working on this, it just kind of felt impossible. And that's what we love, right? We love a we love a
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good challenge. We love something that pushes us and our equipment and our team and kind of everything to the limit. And grabbing that barrel out of the 400t depth essentially blind with so many different things that kept on kind of
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trying to stop it. It's a satisfying feeling. And the story kind of keeps changing about how this happened. Um, I guess when he first uh killed the the lady and her two kids, he took their bodies to a minehaft and kind of dumped
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them there. From what I understand, they were in that minehaft for anywhere from a month to 2 months. And so they had started to decay pretty bad. And when he brought them to the lake to put them in
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the barrel, he actually had them in big like plastic bags, like big industrial bags of some sort. So again, we don't have all the details. We have bits and pieces of, you know, what the killer has told the police. We have bits and pieces
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of what different people have learned over the years and we're kind of putting this puzzle together. So, also the search teams are back on the water today searching for the trash can. We have the utmost respect and reverence for those
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people who were killed. Um, but ultimately we're also working on a very challenging task. So, um, just know that if it felt like we were either too excited or not excited enough or not reverent enough, just know that's not
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the case. like we really took this thing very seriously and we have the utmost respect for the victims, their families, everybody involved. But I mean honestly, the fact that we were able to accomplish what we did, and it wasn't just us, it
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was an entire team effort. Bill from the OSAR team, um the underwater drone guys, the sheriff, um the even the FBI, the Forest Service, everybody came together and said, "Yeah, you guys go ahead and give that a shot." And it was a it was a
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it was a long shot. The grapple worked flawlessly. Um, once we got everything, we kind of had a good plan of how to make it work. Thank you for joining us.
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Thank you for everybody who stepped up. Thank you to Allan from Yankham Ropes. Um, you guys already know Yankham. They basically provide recovery equipment for not just us, but all sorts of other uh favorite YouTubers of yours that do
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recoveries and things like that. Allan personally came out with some rope that he specifically designed for this mission and sat there and ran the winch all day long with IRM. Um, huge shout out to Whan Lights for giving us the
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lighting on the uh, Army boat gator step for making it, you know, so we're not slipping and sliding all over the place.
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Glen Denny Controls now that we have it all on a joystick. Total game changer.
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Uh, Garmin obviously stepped up to help us with some sonar equipment and the big screens. We couldn't have done it like this is not something we can do on our own. takes a lot of support from a lot
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of different people and companies. Camera's about to die. All right. Well, camera's about to die and I'm just going to keep on rolling.
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So, we're going to get out of here. See you on the next one. Heat.
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Heat.
Topics:cold caseunderwater recoveryFremont LakeWyoming46 year old murderunderwater dronesearch and rescueDoug Bishopbarrel recoverytrue crime
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