- Find it? - It's a Ford. Windows are up. - All of them are up? (action music) - Welcome back to day two, as we are in Nashville, Tennessee. We're working with Tennessee
Wildlife Resource Agency. With that, they actually have their
underwater ROV in the water, right now. You can see some of that on screen. We also have Troy from
Skyfront who's flown in from California. With that one, he has a
great big, large drone with a magnetometer on it. So many pieces of equipment
that we're gonna be using today, in our search for Bill Simmons. This is one episode, as I say, you're not gonna wanna miss. (upbeat music) Here we are, we're still in Nashville. We're still looking for Bill Simmons. And we have a lot that
took place yesterday. A lot that's gonna be taking place today, as well as over the course
of the next couple of days. Our main mission today, for my team, let's jump into that first. We have TWRA, which is the Tennessee
Wildlife Resources Agency. So welcome back Matt, that you've seen in some
of our previous episodes. Matt, and oh my goodness. I'm already, Dustin? - Correct. - We got Joe, Matt and - George. - George. And with that we're going to be doing some
training with them today. And so, as I understand that
you guys have a underwater ROV. - Yeah. So we have two ROVs here with us. We've got, of course all the Helix Systems that I think you'll run on your boat, with the down imaging and the
360 scans and all that stuff. So we have that capability. So, kind of what we were just
getting with you guys today to, try to do some training, get
some training with the drones show you guys the drones. If you've never seen one before and, you know, just kind of assist in whatever way we can as far as maybe trying to clear some stuff before you have to dive on 'em. - That's perfect, yeah
we'd love to do that. So we'll jump back over here
with you guys in a minute. Who's going over to
Peeler Park this morning? - [Volunteer] I'll go, yeah. - Okay. So we got Brock and Shane. With that being said, let's get this going today. And let's see if we can find Bill Simmons (cool music) (leaves crunching) (car door closes) Welcome home Dan, for the next three days, we are gonna be at this
location at the boat ramp where those 14, 15, 16, 17 cars. I keep saying that 'cause I actually don't know how many cars we have at this location. Right now, TWRA is setting up on the other side. I can see they've already
got one of their ROVs out. I'm really excited to see what it is, what it's gonna do, 'cause they have sonar on it. And I don't even know what else, Dan. So let's jump in the little inflatable, and head over there. I'm so excited to share this with you. Remember a couple of months ago, we were asked to be at this
video (indistinct) headquarters. and with that, and I apologize cause
we have a little ROV, and we're not supposed to
like mention the competition. But this is a hundred
percent completely different, with five-ish, we have a $3,300 unit. This is a $500,000 unit. You're like the primal primo
expert on underwater drone. Can you tell us a little bit
about what you have today? - Yes, so what we got here, is we're running the
video, right defender. So it's got seven thrusters. It's got a sonar. You can see it's got an
articulated arm on it. What makes this machine so nice is that it has a lot
of automated features. So I'm able to auto hover, I'm able to do grid searches, I'm able to stay a certain
distance off the bottom or a certain distance from the top. I can set so many features that, it will, a lot of times fly itself. And I can be focused more on looking at the sonar screen, looking for a target. - Well, I look forward to it. I'll stay out of your way. Let me know when you're
ready to get started. (upbeat music) Okay, what Joe's got going on here. He's got, essentially the three
images he's looking at on the screen. This is his location. It's gonna tell him where
he's at under water. This is his sonar screen here. And then this is the
back of the blind here. - [Joe] We rarely ever use
the locked hand for operating. We're completely off
sonar most of the time. Until we get within a foot or two of the object. And then we can ID what we're looking at. So (upbeat music) - Alright, there's so much that's
going on right now today. So they're going to keep
looking for cars on this side. We have the other drone
that's in the water on the other side so we can go see what
the update is over there. And then we got Troy
setting up the aerial drone with the magnetometer. So much going on Dan. - [Dan] Yeah, crazy - So you (indistinct) this to recover, drowning victims, boat accident victims. So it enables us to view
what's on the bottom really clearly. So this
you can usually tell is (indistinct) the victim's body. See its legs and arms and head and neck. Were able to search these
deep areas very quickly without having to send
divers down using our (indistinct) resources.
It's a lot safer for us that the speed of finding
some of the with sonar versus the video camera
or something like that - Yeah, it is. - It's much greater to be
able to use sonar to do this (water splashing) (motor noise) (upbeat music) - Yeah, you see the cameras
are already on and going. There's the sonar image and
you got the (indistinct) (motor noise) (background chatter) (upbeat music) - My name is Ron bell. - [Dan] Okay. - I'm also the world's
only Geochronologist. - [Dan] (chuckle)
Geochronologist. Quite the title. - Yeah. I use, - You got a sense of humor too so - I use drones to map geology and find things under the ground. [Dan] Okay - And this is finding things in water. So we're just doing geochronology as far as I'm concerned so. - Skyfront, incredible drone company. This drone will fly for up to five hours. It's like gas power that then
generates into electricity. And with that, Troy reached out to me. He says, I see all of the good
things that AWP is driving across the US with, you know, agencies like TWRA coming on board,
other fire departments of how can we help bring our technology and give you guys more choices with to help with your searches
because you see what we use. We use the sonar, which with that we can see anything above
the ground, under the river. Whereas with a magnetometer, this is where it's really going to help
us on the Randy Leach case. If Randy happens to be buried under sand if we're dealing with, you know, Marty, the missing bridesmaid, if she's underneath the levee we're going to be able to
use the magnetometer to tell us what is not just
through the water, but what's underneath that layer of
mud and the silk as well. So that's what the magnetometer
from geo ministry will do. That's what the drone from
Skyfront is going to do. So we're really excited to have
Troy here today showing all of us how it's going to work and mapping out the cars in this location. - All right, guys, we're ready to take off (drone noise) (upbeat music) - That was pretty cool. - Now I'm gonna pull the data
and um, we can analyze it. - And I'm excited to see it, man. This is phenomenal. So cool. - And now that the data's here,
it didn't take long at all. And I, if we start doing this, we have like our own drone Troy. Do we get him? Like, we just like put him
in like a little suitcase and bring them along with us and then we just pull them
out when we need them. - Yeah. Absolutely. - All right. Sounds good. - You can do that. Yeah. Well, what we're doing is actually mapping the magnetic field of the earth. And when that the magnetic field of the earth penetrates
something like a, a car, it it actually creates an intense,
a higher amplitude anomaly. And that's exactly why we can use MAG to to actually map locate
cars in buried rivers or oil Wells for, for that matter. - Okay. So what did we find today? - Well, today we can see,
this is a, the map it's a of the magnetic field of the earth and the reds are the high
amplitude areas and the and the blues are the very low amplitude. And what this is telling us is that in the center of this river,
there's very little anomalies. There's nothing there. That is, that is, that is
metallic, but on the edges of it like this is this side of the river. We have several magnetic
anomalies in there. I've contoured them. They're circular that tells me that we probably have something
like a car or whatever. I can do more analysis on
the data, but for now that's that's the first sort of approximation of an
interpretation of these data. - Well, TWRA just showed up
on this side of the river. We're going to cut to them and jump back down and see
what they're going to do with their underwater drone. I do have one last question, though in way of gold mines over the course of your career what have you been responsible
for as to locating mines? How many millions of dollars have you You said, you know what? I wish I owned that claim and I didn't tell them where it was at. And I should have bought
that piece of land. - I, I have been a part of teams that have
located major gold mines. These aren't, these aren't,
these are major mining companies and multiple, multiple millions of dollars close to a billion
dollars, something like that. But I've been a part of a team. I'm a technical person. I've been part of a technical team. I'm not a, not a prospector
from that perspective. - Alright. Well, so I think that
what's going to happen is that we're going to partner
up with Troy, Ron, Sam. We're going to get into the
gold mining business as well. And when we're not locating cars let's start looking for some gold mines. - I like it, Troy. - Alright. On that note, let's go check out TWRA. From that side of the river to this side of the river,
we now have a new challenge. And the challenge is, I think
there's 17 cars over here. Dennis thinks there's 14 cars over here. I'd like to find out what
it is that you can do. Are the three cars, 14
cars, 17 cars or 27 cars? I don't know. Put your skills to the test, blow us away because you actually also I have to mention this also,
Joe actually found three cars on the other side I
didn't even know about. So I think Joe is going to win this little competition today. - Alright. Let's do it. - What do you got going on
here on the screen so far? - Okay. So right now, just
getting oriented in the water. So I've got some automated
features here that I can set. So when I can tell it
to be a certain distance off the bottom, I can tell it
to maintain a certain heading that allows me to focus
my attention on the solar. - Yeah. - And I'm not fighting a typical I'm not fighting the,
the controls very much (motor noise) (upbeat music) - Grill, headlights, - You can tell now, Joe, this is car number one, - Car number one. (upbeat music) - How many years you've
been doing this Joe? - [Joe] So I've been
working for the agency for 23, 24 years. I've been in the investigative
position for three years. Uh and as soon as I wrote into
the investigator position, we they had one of these
brand new out of the box. We got a little bit of training with it and we've been
putting it to use ever since. - Nice, and not every agency
across the US can afford, you know what's what
did I hear it correctly? $500,000 or so for this one? - [Joe] Uh, this one here is $250,000. - Okay. - [Joe] So we were fortunate that we were able to
obtain a grant for this. So that's, so that has allowed us to to purchase both of these
with, with grant funds. And with that, we, we make it available to to agencies outside of,
of TWRA or outside boating or we're, you know, we're
here to utilize this and the quicker we can
make a recovery of that the better it is on family. Better it is to get the
rescuers back in SERPs. - Yeah. So Jared, what's
kind of the difference with the sonar on this guy, if you know opposed to like what we're using with our stuff. - [Jared] Here's what I know. I know that with ours we've kind of introduced
the live scope recently which kind of goes and shows you like a real live as you pan
you'll see things in real time. Whereas on the hummingbird we're currently using side
scan and down imaging, which means that we've
already gone over this, and it's taking a picture in time and showing us what just happened. But, you know, we've got George
here that can really dive in deeper is to, you know,
answering the questions down imaging, side imaging as well as the technology behind this. - Um yeah. Side scan is a static image is like you said, it's a, it's a screenshot a brief moment in time
where our ROV is this sonar that these devices are used
as it's a dynamic image. It's, it's like, video almost. In other words, if if Joe right now there's a fish
swims in front of his sonar you will see the fish actually swimming. You'll see it moving. (upbeat music) - Oh, I'm so excited about that. So one vehicle, two vehicles? - Two vehicles. One's a Cadillac. We know we still got the tag on it. We could read four of the six letters. - Okay. - It's really new. - Okay. - Definitely worth - SUV? - Uh no, it's like one of the CTS - Okay - It's like a sedan - Are they pulling that one out? - He was getting his
dive gear on down there. Not right here. That's on, down at shell. - Right - The one that was very
far past the boat room it's a couple hundred yards down there. - Okay. But they didn't realize
the road is right beside it. And there's no fence there. So conceptually, they could have just - Launched it right off - Launched it right off. So it's nine foot of
water, but it's pretty new. It's flat. - And how about the second vehicle? - Did not, he was very interested in that. We, we got it on sonar. It's right there. Really close to the ramp. - Okay I think he could probably just wade in but we told him after lunch,
we'd go back down there and he's wanting to run the
line right down to the car. - Excellent. - So unless you've got other, - So they're eating lunch right now. And then they're rigging. Do you know which one
they plan on rigging? - They, he was wanting to do the Cadillac. - I don't blame him. I mean, - Dan, I kind of want to
run over there myself. Do you want to go see the Cadillac? - Let's do that. (banjo music) - Alright we made it. - Yeah, we did. Here we are. - Yeah. So right now we're
getting Anthony set to go in over there. If you look out and pan that direction we have a Brock, muddy bottoms, and Shane they've already
had dove on the vehicle Anthony is going to go do a
weight check, see where he's at. And we're going to
start rigging this thing and yanking it out. - He's on his wheels or upside down. - We don't know. We ain't seen it yet. - Well, yeah, it's on its wheels - Hold the ROV shot. - No the ROV saw a Cadillac down there. - Oh, what are you on right now? - There's another car right here. - Another car? (group chattering) - Yeah we already checked it. (group chattering) - So if I come here and go down this road - We go for the Cadillac. This one has to come out. - Watch it then, if
there in the water here, (water splashing) - Find it? - She's on it. - It's a Ford. Windows are up. - All of them are up?
Including the windshield? - It looks like a rental car. - That's what it does look like. - Looks like a small rental. - Hertz corporation. - Ford Focus? Ford Fusion? - Ford Focus. - Clear for you guys to get around. - We can get all around. - I know definitely. Driver's side. I'd made sure you can get around. - Yeah. Let's just get some
good connection points to that. We've got these new beautiful hooks from B/A Products that
sent these over to us. So simple J hooks. One on one axle one on the other. Just coming over the top. You should be good to go. - All hooked up? - I got it hooked up. I don't know how perfect it is. Cause like the other one's
kind of in the way I got it on but I mean, they're both
on the driver's side. - Alright. Well, if you didn't do it right, guess who's going back down. (laughing) - Okay. So we've got a 60 ton
rotator here Dad's Towing. Currently hooked up to
the divers rigging cars already pre-rigged he's
setting up a better position for himself to pull it up here. Once he gets it, pulled
up, put it on a roll back. He's gone. - Oh yeah, she's moving. - Oh, this is almost going to be too easy. Was that car going too far that way? (upbeat music) - Yeah. The good thing is his rotator, so you can bring it back down. (upbeat music) (train horn) (machine noises) (background chatter) (upbeat music) - You do know that this car is not clear? - Oh, look what's coming out. - I don't feel nothing around. - That's good news. (upbeat music) - Yeah. Do you wanna check the back or no? - No, I'm, I'm good. - You're good. - I mean, if you sleep on it
for the next couple of days cause we have like three more days and then we'll be having
this one on display. So if you feel uneasy about it,
we can...fact what we can do is we can give people a shovel - And let them dig, - And let them dig at the meet and greet. - Getting late in the day. Quick recap for you. (guitar music) We started over there at Opryland Resort. So thank you again to them for taking care of a block
of rooms for all of us. We were able to meet up with TWRA with that one, we did a bunch
of underwater ROV training. So it was really good to
see the way that they're using $250,000 ROVs, as opposed to $3,000 ROVs with the
sonar that's on them. Then also during,
throughout the day, you saw that we met up with Troy from Skyfront. So we are really excited. I think we're going to go ahead and continue that relationship
because it's really good seeing the way that
they're able to use this as a magnetometer. And it really helped take us
to that next level of digging in deeper and literally deeper underground where we can see if
there's any potential cars. We then popped over here. Several things happened today. Let me grab Brett real quick. I don't even know where Nug is at. - I'm over here. - You're not Nug, - I'm Nug. - Which we'll just do a quick little flash on the screen here
showing their Thunderbird which is going to be
on display on the 23rd. Were only day two into I don't even know how many
days, six days, 12 total it. We're going to be in the Nashville area. From there. We then jumped over here to Shelby Bottoms because the TWRA jumped down
here with some of the crew. I forget, even who jumped
down here with them you guys were down here. And with that, they were
able to identify three cars three cars, two cars, three with ROV. And out of that, we
didn't get the Cadillac like we were hoping for
today, but we did end up getting a Ford Focus,
which was a rental car and come to find out it was stolen. Keys were in it. So big shout out to Dad's Towing
little flash on the screen for America, but make sure
that you do support them here in the Nashville area. If you need a tow call Dad's,
because they will take care of you. They donated all their time,
their services the entire week helping us get as many cars
out of the river as we can. So many more people to thank
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