- What is that? - See that?
- See that, what is that? I repeat, we have
discovered Jimmie's vehicle. - Copy that, 19 feet. (compelling music) (gentle music) - I would love to help you guys. I would love to be the
one to rig that vehicle. We're still in Philadelphia. Is this something that's
gonna happen on Monday? - [Dominique] It looks like it is. The crane company is
available to do it Monday. Stingers is closed on Monday. So from a people gawking standby position, it's ideal, because the place is closed. - Yeah. - [Dominique] As soon as I
have a definitive answer, I will call you and let you know. - Yeah, yeah. And then you can touch
base with John Hummel. - Yeah. - [Dominique] And I would
love for you to be there. And so would my family since you're the one that found Jimmie and covered this whole ball rolling for us of possibility of getting him back. - Yeah, yeah, absolutely. All right, and any more
help I can provide you guys, you got it, man. - [Dominique] Right. So like I said, as soon
as I have an answer, I will shoot you a text
- Okay. - And let you know for sure
and give you a timeline. - Absolutely. - All righty.
- Yep. Thanks, Doug, I appreciate it. - You're very welcome, Dominique. You have a wonderful evening. - Bye bye.
- You too, have a safe day. - Yep, bye.
- Bye bye. - Oh, so that was
Dominique, Jimmie's brother. Supposedly the township
contacted the barge company. The barge company requested
in an astronomical fee to pull the vehicle out. Dominique knows a crane company
that he's very close to, and the universe works in mysterious ways, because Dominique didn't
even have to reach out to that crane company,
because he knew the owner. The owner actually
reached out to Dominique just to make sure he
was okay, not even to, "Hey, I wanna pull the car out." It was just a, "Hey, are you okay? "I saw they found your brother." And he was like, "If you guys need "any of our help whatsoever with anything, "you just let me know." And Dominique, knowing what
the barge company said, then explained it to
the crane company owner, and the crane company owner was like, "We'll do it for free. "You have nothing to worry about." Actually, we can do this on Monday. The Stinger's Waterfront
is closed on Monday, and obviously Dominique
wants us to be there to do the rigging for the vehicle as we were the one to find the vehicle. Wouldn't surprise me if the Ridley Township Police Department isn't calling me soon to set that up. Now, this stuff isn't set in stone, but it looks like we're gonna
be getting Jimmie's vehicle outta that river, the
creek there on Monday. Universe has worked some mysterious ways and good things happen to good people, that the sense of community
that this world still has is very special, very, very special. (inspiring music) - A mystery nearly two decades old may have just been solved
in Delaware County. - Divers believe that they
found the remains of a local man who disappeared back in 2003. Eyewitness News spoke with
that man's family days after he went missing. - I just want anyone who has seen him, even if you think you've
seen him, call us. - Don't understand how
somebody just disappears. We've been looking. So many people have been looking. - A couple of days ago, we discovered Jimmie's vehicle
underwater, 24 feet deep after 19 years. Here in a few moments, we'll be bringing his
vehicle to the surface and putting a final end to this nightmare. (gentle music) - Glad everybody could get together today. We pulled it together quickly. We got the worst day we could
have got here this spring, but we're just gonna
take our time here today and make this thing happen. And then safety, Chief, you wanna go over how we're gonna go forward? - Yeah. Again, I'd like to thank everyone, especially Doug and
Adventures With Purpose. Thank you guys for being out, especially supporting our dive team. We're just gonna do a
quick brief and a dry run of how we're gonna be
rigging this with the divers and the crane team. We're gonna do it all on land, make sure we got everything squared away, and we're gonna go from there. We'll let everyone know when
we're getting in the water, but please just, everyone, be safe. All right. Other than that, Cap, (indistinct). - Yeah, I mean, this
is a community effort. I mean, everybody here
making this possible. Wouldn't be possible,
especially Pro Crane guys like selfless, committing their company, their time, donating. We wouldn't be here today if
they wouldn't have stepped up to make sure that that happens. So, that's huge. That's huge. I don't know, $3 million
crane sitting there. Volunteer, that's a lot. So thank you guys a lot. We really appreciate it. - [Chief] We'll review the video, then we'll go with the rigging then we'll suit up and get us started.
- Yeah, sounds great, cool. So we're gonna go review the footage, so that we all have an
idea of what I already have in my mind. I was down there. Anthony was down there. We know what we're looking at, but for us to be safe and thorough, all of us are now gonna know
exactly what we're working with down there per se. The video is kind of... There's not a lot of
visibility in the video, but it'll at least give us
a sense of what's there. At this point, I have the
plate in my hand already. He's showing me the pylon. That's the windshield. Yeah, yeah, I know you can't see anything. That's the hood peeled up. To the bottom of the vehicle is buried, but all the tops of all
four wheels are exposed. I made sure. I checked that when I was down there. - So it's (indistinct)?
- Yeah. - Is that the style rim (indistinct)? - That looks just like the style rim, yes. Yeah. And with his two inch straps, what I would like to do
is we can get our zip ties on the strap depending
on the ends of his strap, and we just fist it, the
zip tie, through the rim and pull it through. Fighting with a strap, it can
be a little bit more difficult than just sticking a zip tie through and then pulling the strap right around. - For sure. - Yeah, so minus some spreader bars. We'll have the seven inch spreader bars, so that the straps aren't
pinching on the body at all, and that that's exactly how
it will look each, each rim, - First we'll go horizontal or? - They'll go horizontally
across the vehicle, and they'll drop two arms down. And yeah, man, it's just a
matter of getting down there and getting the straps
secured through the rim. It's really, really easy, just methodical, slow and methodical. So if the straps are gonna be
easy to put through the rim, we'll just use that. If not, we'll put zip ties on the end, and then zip ties are so easy
to put through those rims and then jerk the strap right through. This is by far the most complex recovery that we've ever done here
at Adventures With Purpose, and we're very, very honored to have such a community
presence here today, working together to make sure
that this happens efficiently and as thorough as possible. That is what the true meaning
of community is really about. The selflessness of Pro Crane being here, donating their services and
their entire crew's time, the permits that had to be
acquired for each county to even drive this crane through it, just it says a lot about everything that's going on right here and would not be possible without them. The other company, I'm not gonna name the
company, but the other company that was attempted to bring in wanted an astronomical
amount of money for this, and this company's out
here on their own dime helping the family out. And you guys need to take the time, please go leave Pro Crane great reviews, tell 'em how much you appreciate this. This would not be possible without them. Having this type of
equipment is the only way that this happens without completely damaging
the marina that's out there. When we're done today and everything goes according to plan, this marina is gonna be untouched. The township here isn't gonna be burdened by a bunch of repairs that honestly they don't have the money for. So everything's gonna
go according to plan. We're gonna make sure everything
does go according to plan the entire step of the way. It's cold, 20 degrees out here. This not only the most complex recovery that we've ever done, but
the conditions are insane. Anytime you're dealing with
water in a current like this, there's a lot of variables
that we can't account for. So we're gonna do everything
we can to stay safe as well. - Do you have another carabiner or something you're gonna use? (gentle music) (crew murmurs) - [Doug] And I think the spreader bar used to spread it across. (indistinct) through
there and then pull it and then loop it through
itself and choke it. - [Chief] You have two guys of yours going in the water as well? - It'll be just me.
- Just you. - [Doug] Yeah, yeah. (radio beeps) - Adventures With Purpose
will have one diver in the water with two (indistinct) (man murmurs)
- Okay. - [Dispatcher] Okay, and
then how many on the dock? - One, two three. (radio beeps)
Four, plus a diver, so a total of five (indistinct). Okay, you and (indistinct) all the time. (suspenseful music) (crew murmurs) - [Crew Member] Snap that in for me. (radio beeps) (suspenseful music intensifies) - [Crew Member] Are we good or no? (crew member murmurs) - Your (indistinct) twisted back here. (suspenseful music) - Can you (indistinct)
him, so he don't fall? (crew murmurs) - Over there. If you can follow me
over there (indistinct). - [Doug] All right, heading lower. (suspenseful music) (censor beep) I'm tangled in the lines. (suspenseful music) (radio static) (radio static) - Hey, Doug, you copy me? (radio static) (suspenseful music) - I lost my fin. (Doug murmurs) Are your guys' divers
out, still down there? - One is.
- Okay. - One is, and so is Anthony.
- All right. Yes. Not going according to plan. There's just too much cabling, too many lines, too many divers. - [Crew Member] Do you have
a spare fin in the trailer? - I do not, but it's fine as long as we
continue to get the wheels done. - [Crew Member] I'll get
you out, take the tank. - Yeah, I can't grab my secondary there. Hold on. - Wheels too buried. He can't get the sling into the wheel. He's moving to the back passenger side, see if he can sling that, okay? - All right.
- What do you need from us? - Right now, I'm kind of
like I don't have my fin. One diver in the water is all we need. Get everything. We can't account for everything, but with all the different
cablings coming down, the lines, the tether, it is unsafe for really more
than one diver at a time to be down doing the
rigging or on the car. - [Chief] Okay, do you
want my diver to come up? - No, no, your diver's fine. My guy's right there
hand in hand with him. So as long as we're not
all carrying straps around, we were getting tangled up. So it's a good thing. I lost my fin and I got tangled up, my mask came off. (crew murmurs) I got tangled up. My mask got ripped off. I lost my fin, and the lines
are just twisting up on. There's things you can't
account for in recovery, especially underwater recovery, Plan it as good as you want on land until you get under water
and adverse conditions, and things change rapidly. So the tethers are, I guess, an aspect we're never involved with. Tethering, it's a safe measure to do, but when you have that combined with all the other cables,
chains, and straps, it's really only good for just one diver to be down at a time and another diver topside ready to rescue, which we have a diver
topside ready to rescue, and we have a diver down
there now just situating it. Really, we should only
have one person on the car. - Yeah, it's that bad? - Yeah, I was tangled up,
twisted up, mask ripped off, lost my fin. Every one of these we do, we learn. The key in this is having so
many multiple different lines down at once, needs to
be done one at a time. It's a learning curve, but we're trying to use a spreader bar to protect the integrity of the vehicle, so that we don't squish it. Also having multiple divers on a vehicle, trying to rig it underwater
with tether lines as well, it's a recipe for disaster. And honestly, the fact
that I got myself unstuck and untwisted from all
of that lines and chains was pretty epic. For a while, I thought
we were gonna just have to raise everything with
me twisted inside of it just to get me above water. So thankfully that didn't happen. - So we've got passenger
side rear hooked up. We just can't get the strap to the roof. - Can't get the strap to the roof. - Yeah, it's not long
enough to get to the roof. - The strap from the bar
is plenty long enough to go down to it to compensate
where the D-ring is, so you can bring the D-ring down to it, any one of the D-rings. - Any one of the D-rings. - They're twisted up right now. There's no finding the right one. - All right, Swan, so (indistinct). (gentle music) (crew murmurs) - So they got the passenger with... Really, we have front
driver, rear passenger. - Okay. - Just sit tight. What are we doing now? - Is he able to get to the other wheel? - Are you able to get to
the driver's side rear? He's at the driver's side rear now. - Okay. - So we have the passenger
side rear hooked up. He's at the driver's side rear now. - Okay, so the passenger
side rear is hooked up through the D-ring to the spreader bar. - I'm sorry, say that again. We don't have a strap hooked
up to the tire, correct, driver's side?
- No, not that I know of. - We do not have a strap hooked up to it. - Is that it?
- Okay, so we need a strap on the driver's side rear. Does your guy have the strap or no? - No. - Can have my guy pop up, check air, and bring stuff down. - Yeah, have him check air. He's gotta be...
- Here's what we're gonna do. He's got his strap. He's working on rigging it now. - Perfect, perfect, And
then when my guy comes up, I'll have him take
another strap down to him. - He's not gonna be able to
get the driver side rear. - Not gonna be able to get
the driver's side rear. - No.
- All right. - You wanna him pop up? - Yeah, you can have him pop up. - Okay. All right, Swan, if you
wanna pop up, (indistinct). - Yeah, I think it'll-
- Wanna try it with two? - Yeah, we can try it with two. We can't get to anything else. So we have no choice, really? Outside of that, the only other thing we're gonna have to do
if that doesn't work, then we're gonna have to pop windows and run straps and chains
right through the body of it, which we don't want to do. That's like last ditch effort. I think it'll work. I don't see how it won't. We can just slow and break it free. When they're up, when
he gets the confirmation and they come up, you can just start pulling a little bit. - [Crew Member] They don't wanna
watch while we're doing it? - His guy, yes. We have to get another tank. - Stuck good and I can't get it. - You got one though, right? - One's definitely on there. - And we got one on the front. - [Diver] The other one's
just too much rocks and shit between the wheels. - And you got yours done? - Yeah I checked three
tires I know are hooked to the D-rings to the straps. - Three, so which three? - I know the driver's side front, passenger front, and the passenger rear. I know D-rings-
- Both front. - Yeah.
- Okay. All right. So, be careful, there's ice. Guys, all this water is already ice. It's that fricking cold. So what we're gonna do, leave it on. Leave it on for now. We're gonna raise the car to the surface, and you're gonna slip a strap under. All right, it'll take like five minutes. We got the two front. We don't have this driver rear, right? - I didn't see it.
- Yeah, we don't have the driver rear. So we're gonna be pulling like that. - Level, get that strap.
- So when it gets to the surface, we're gonna
take that basket strap. You're gonna slide one
side behind the wheel, come around the front, other
side behind this wheel. Go around the back, do the same thing. You're gonna slide it around the wheel, and then come around here
and then slide it around. So there're gonna be two U baskets. All right. Don't go underneath the
vehicle at all at any moment. Just stay.
- I gotta be careful with the current, so I gotta
be on the down current side. - Doug, you need any of
our guys in the water? - No. No. (gentle music) - [Chief] We're gonna
keep going, all right? (gentle music) - [Doug] The pylon is
gonna come out with it. Okay, it's out. It's free. (crew murmurs) (gentle music) - [Chief] That pylon's in there? Is that pylon in there? (crew murmurs) (gentle music) - Little bit more, little
bit more, just a little. (gentle music) - [Crew Member] Here, let
me chain all that down. then you can (indistinct)
put this right through it. - If We have to we'll set
it over there on the shore before we put it too far, you know? Little by little. Yeah, need some more. (crew murmur) All right. Crank it. That's good, that's good, that's good. (gentle music) (crew murmurs) We need to stop right there. Stop right there. (crew murmurs) - [Crew Member] You wanna
go under the chain, Doug, rim and the tire? (crew murmurs) - Doug right now is wrapping the strap around the frame, one of the
strongest parts of the vehicle to get a secure lift for the crane, so this doesn't break off
when he goes over the dock. So this is one of the best
anchor points he can get. (crew murmurs) - Get the vehicle outta here and back to the medical examiner's office is the most important thing. Whenever we're doing a recovery within adverse conditions like this, you can't account for
absolutely everything. At this moment, being as
though things haven't gone according to absolute
plan, I would still say, this is an absolute success so far. The car is coming outta the water. It's not ripping apart. It's completely held up. And for 19 years underwater, this vehicle is in immaculate condition. You would think this vehicle's
only been under there for a year or two. (crew murmurs) - [Crew Member] What we could
do, we could wrap that pole. - So what we're working with right now is the pylon is stuck in the vehicle, which is something that
we could not account for, but it was a possibility
we knew could happen. So now are going to chop the pylon off and free it from the vehicle, which then will give us
enough lifting power as well, because we're almost overweight. (chainsaw revs) - [Crew Member] There we go, perfect. (crew murmurs) - Beautiful.
- I'd get that out of the way. - Watch out. Yeah, we're just taking it right over. (gentle music) A recovery of this
magnitude and this complex, for us to still be in
the realm of success, goes to show how dedicated
everybody is here. And the type of equipment
we're using is compensating for areas that we could not account for. At this point, this recovery
is an absolute success. Jimmie's vehicle is gonna make its way onto the tow truck on to the
medical examiner's office where they will do a thorough
examination of the vehicle for evidence and what's left. (gentle music) (crew murmurs) (crew murmurs) Gonna rerig it so that
we can upright it evenly, 'cause right now it's just
not in the position we need to do to put it on the wrecker. Probably gonna bring the wrecker over here and have it uprighted. (crew member murmurs) So we're gonna disconnect the spreader bar and all of the rigging. That way, we can roll it over, pick it up, and just set
it onto the tow truck. (gentle music) (crew murmurs) Stages of the crane, so
they could come down lower and be able to do exactly
what we need to do it in a compact area, 'cause
he was fully extended. We were maxed out on weight, actually a little bit overweight. When we cut that pylon,
the pylon then dropped it below just the maximum limit
of what the crane was able to pull at the angle it was at. When we discovered this vehicle
had a pylon in the vehicle, we believed it was through the vehicle. However, now upon recovering this vehicle, we know the pylon never
made it through the vehicle. So the second we started
to do the recovery today, the pylon moved immediately. So that was a variable we
didn't think was possible. We thought the pylon was drilled directly through the vehicle into the river bed. However, that wasn't the case. Tires over. (gentle music)
(crew murmurs) You're good. (crew murmurs)
(gentle music) - [Crew Member] Move
down a little bit more. There. (gentle music) - [News Anchor] And back here
at home, a developing story in Delaware County today. Crews have removed a car
with remains inside of it from Darby Creek in Ridley Township. And those remains are believed
to be of James Amabile who went missing back in 2003. Divers with the group
Adventures With Purpose found that vehicle, and
police say the discovery could be closure for Amabile's family. (gentle music) - This is something that
we've been investigating for a long time. It wasn't just the initial missing person. It was following a lot of
leads over over the years, following a lot of different theories as far as the whereabouts
of the missing person. So for us and for the family, it's closure if it is the victim. (gentle music) - [News Anchor] It was an emotional day. The family contacted an
independent diving team, which vowed to search every body of water within five miles of where
that man went missing almost 20 years ago. It led them to the Darby
Creek and a huge discovery. (gentle music) Investigators had tied
the missing man's vehicle, a green Ford Explorer, to his case. Adventures With Purpose, a
volunteer diving team from Oregon says it specializes with cold cases where vehicles are involved. It uses sonar technology
to track them underwater. The divers called police
when they found the vehicle with human remains inside. First responders helped extract the body as family watched from the docks. (gentle music)
