(drone motor whirring) `- Today's episode is going
to be a little bit different as we are back in Nashville
looking for Bill Simmons. We have a lot of new
technology coming in to see how we can possibly use
this in not just the search for Bill Simmons, but
as well as future cases. We have so many directions
that this particular episode is going to go as we bring you
up to speed as to what we're going to be doing the
next four, five, six days here in Nashville, so stay tuned. One episode you're not
going to want to miss. (slow country music) Welcome back for another episode
of Adventures with Purpose, where we are back here,
because we're back here with Christie Simmons, as
we're looking for Bill Simmons. And when the word got out after
we were here with you last, kind of tell me, did
the overwhelming support as to everybody coming together. - It really has been amazing, just everybody coming together. I've met Mike. - I mean, we have, we'll get
to everybody in a few minutes as to how many things. I don't even know how many
things we have here today. - It's amazing. - But not only have you
lost Bill, but you've just recently lost your mother as well. - Yeah. - She was down here last time. - Mm-hmm. - She was your rock. Please tell us a little
bit more about your mom. - She's been my rock my entire life, and after my dad was
gone, it was, you know, the two of us for just,
and she's been with me through this whole thing with Bill, and she's kept me semi-sane. - Well, Mike was keeping
us updated on that one. In fact, Mike, why don't
you come on in here with us, and let me introduce you to
Mike Bishop, who has, he saw, when did you actually see what it is that we were doing here in Nashville? This was after we were
already in Nashville, we left, we'd already put up profiles
and videos that we did searching for Bill. - Right, I mean, it was
just a random morning. I was flipping through Facebook
and that video popped up, very first video I'd ever seen of yours. And that's when I reached out to you, and we got connected, and
it's just gone from there. - Mike, being from the area here has done incredible, you know,
research already as to where, but a few things that
we've also learned is, even though an area has
been searched once or twice by one group, it's good to go
back in with another group, because you know, we've
been in our own experience to where we've covered an area
that's already been covered twice before, and we found somebody. You know, we have, in
fact let me introduce you to Team Waters real quick as well. Tammy and Dennis come on up here. So this is Team Waters,
Tammy and Dennis, and really, I kind of look to them
as some of the pioneers in the field of search and recovery. They were kind of the
first ones to receive some of the new equipment back in 2005. - Right. - And helped pioneer, "Hey, Hummingbird, we need these settings." - Right. - Because you found somebody. So kind of tell us a quick
little snippet of your story, how this whole, this got started for you. - He explains it better. - We put our boat in, and we
knew there used to be a lock and dam nearby our house
that they dynamited out, and we thought that'd be
a cool place to go try out this new Hummingbird. And so we launched, and the
very first pass when we got to the top of the lock and
dam where it used to be, there was a car. And then she remembered about
this schoolteacher running into the water and never being found. She's on video, going
from the riverboat casino, going in the water,
but they was never able to find her car. Three years and three months
to the day we recovered her. - From the time she went in the water. - From the time she went in the water. You know, there was a
lot of media about it, and then immediately calls came in from all across the country, and we just never did learn how to say no. - And you're all volunteer? I mean, you don't ask
the families for money? - Never will. - And you've really helped
guide us in this as well. And I mean, I want to thank you, because everybody that's
here today is here today because they've taken your lead as well as our mission statement, and
you know, for what we want for our integrity behind
this is that we're not here to take money from families either. We've never asked, you
know, Christy for a dime, nor will we ever ask her
for a dime, you know, or any of the other families. And so for that, you
know, I want to thank each and every one of you for being
here today to help out that, you know that this is becoming
a movement that, you know, we were talking just the other
day, right now there's five or six main search teams
across the entire U.S., but there's thousands of
cases of missing persons. - Right. - And so, you know, Mike
Bishop is starting to do this. You know, we've got Shane
from Project Clean River out of West Virginia. We've got Nug with Exploring with Nug. Jeremy is his name. We've got Mark. Mark, you fall into this with Bryson as well as Mike Bishop,
so you guys you know, are kind of a team here in Nashville. You know, we've got
supporters that come out, like Tara Mason, and we've
got Karen back there. Wave, Karen. That, you know, then help set
up the help set up, you know, the fire department who's
going to be taken care of, by the way, your air is
completely taken care of every single morning. You know, we've got Brit
here from Depths of History. We've got Anthony that
came in from New York. We've got Ohio. So this is our new, this
is our new security here. You know, Sam, Sam, the Adventure Man. We've got Brock the Rock
out of Pennsylvania. Come here, Doug. Elite Towing, where it all started. 100% you and your company are
the reason for all of this. - Oh, stop it. - Come on now. Initially it was supposed
to just be one car. - Yeah, I mean, nobody would have known. - Yeah. - Where this has led us. - And then we joke about 25
cars by the end of the year. - Yeah. - I think we've met those numbers. - Oh yeah, higher. - Yeah, now here we are,
you know, 60 cars later, and here we are just months
after we've been in Nashville. That thank you, Doug, for being here. We'll get back with Christie over here. So here we are, you know,
months later, we're back in Nashville, and what
started as Sam and I meeting up with you has turned into something much bigger and much greater. - Thank you all. I'm just, I'm overwhelmed. - So if there's any,
you know, hope in this, I think that this is your,
this is the dream team to do what we can for you. - I appreciate that. - You're welcome. With that, I think that
we're going to break off into different groups. We're going to leave a
link in the description down below to all parties. We're going to be here for
six days here in Nashville. And you're going to see a lot
of cameras around, you know, we are here that this is
how we're able to actually be out here is because of
the YouTube and the Facebook platforms, and same thing
with these other, you know, the others that have come together. So again, thank you everybody for coming, and let's see what we can do today. (slow rock music) We've done three cars total. - Yeah, so there's one, two, three. - Oh, so we're already one more car above what we had last time. - [Dennis] That's right, but this morning, nothing left of it. You couldn't get that out
of there if you wanted to. - Correct. (slow rock music) - [Richard] Look to your right,
sort of open road up there. (machine beeping) Yep, definitely it's a potential outlet. Do you find that the
cases that you've been able to solve, they're using more out of the way places, or are
they sneaking and going between like, homes and stuff
where people could see them? - [Dennis] Lot of what we
find is not necessarily the boat ramp, but there's
a park, and they drive across the grass to go in
and not use the boat ramp. - [Tammy] Usually if it's between houses, it's an accident or something. So they don't, you know
if they're going to do it, they're not, if they're not
going to want to be found. They're not going to go take a chance on somebody being at the
house and seeing them do it. - [Richard] I mean, we
found people in their cars, in a little nothing of a pond
that you wouldn't even think, you know, give a second thought to. (slow rock music) - [Tammy] So this is where the 17 are at? - [Dennis] Yeah. (machine beeping) - [Richard] We actually
didn't go down as far as we probably should have, so there might be more
down in this area as well. - [Tammy] Yeah. - [Dan] Yeah, we were, that
was like the end of the day when we found them. - [Richard] There's
another one right here, and we haven't even gone up
there yet, so there's two more. Eight, nine, ten? - [Dan] Yeah. - [Richard] Looks like eleven,
wait, wait, wait, wait. That's another car. Oh, and there's one right
next to it too, look. (indistinct) (boat motor running) (indistinct chatting) - [Dennis] You thought we
were just seeing one already. There's one, two, three. (laughing) four, maybe five, six, seven, eight. - [Richard] I think we're up to nine. - [Dennis] There's one. Dang, they're piled on each other. - [Tammy] It was a stolen car, though. - [Dennis] Don't have 17 of
them, but there's a bunch. - [Tammy] Well when we turn
around, we can go back. - [Dennis] There's another one. - [Tammy] And then these down here. - [Dennis] Nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14. - [Tammy] Over here? - [Dennis] I don't think that's a car. I'm not sure about that. Might be one here up close. I don't think so, though. Running a really old
upside down right there. - [Tammy] Yeah, upside down. - [Dan] Well, I'm feeling better. I think it's just closer
to 17 we were counting. (laughing) - [Dennis] I don't know
how many there is there. You have to pull up some of
them to get an actual count. All right, so where are we going now? (bluegrass music) - [Richard] When we started,
we started at Lock Two Park. The 17 cars are over here,
down from the bridge, and now we've come back around
the river to where we drove to last time, which was
the Heartland Boat Ramp. And so we've put in our
boat here, we scanned here, and so we're going to redouble scan here with Team Waters today. And then we never did
check out the Peeler Park across the way, so we're going to check, that's what this ramp is
right here is Peeler Park. - [Dennis] Kind of something
like what we're looking for, but that's too old. - [Tammy] So there's how many there, two? - [Richard] One so far. - [Tammy] One. - [Dennis] This probably used
to be one way back in the day. You got that little one right there, tucked right in below that keel there. - [Tammy] So there's two, three? - [Dennis] Three. (bluegrass music) - [Richard] So we're now
at the Heartland Ramp where we scanned before. If you'll look, if we hang
out another five minutes, we're going to be able to
identify the truck in the river. Yeah, the only thing we found
here was a bunch of concrete. - [Dennis] Yep. I mean there's nothing here. (bluegrass music) - Our next location that we're moving to, we were just over here
at the Lock Two Park, moving our way down south here. And the two or what did I say
it was, Two Rivers Lake has a little roundabout parking area here, and a lot of just grass and it adds depth. Tammy does with, you mentioned
earlier, just driving across the grass into
something, not even a boat ramp. They've found quite a few vehicles. We have another dive team that's actually sonared this before. I think they dove on one of the cars. As of right now, I think
that we've identified three vehicles up there. We just want to go put
our own eyes on it again. Never trusting what somebody
else has already done. We just want to clear
the area on their own. So Two Rivers Lake is
our next destination. I don't know if you saw or
not, Dan, as we came up, there's no boat ramp here, so we're not putting in
the big Team Sonars boat. What we have is we have a new fun little
underwater scanning device. It's a remote control boat that Dennis has actually built himself. And so with that, you
have a Hummingbird unit, with the side scan built into it, and that's a through hole transducer? - [Dennis] Yes, sir. - When rather than a transducer
that is kind of on the side, or hangs out in the back of
the boat, this one actually has what's called a through hole transducer. So it actually goes
through the boat itself, and it's on the very bottom. And then from there you have wireless to your ground station as well, so you can actually see in real time. - Yeah, we used a
wireless ethernet bridge. The Hummingbird feeds ethernet
out to other Hummingbirds. So what we did is we took
that signal and custom made some leads, and hooked into
wireless ethernet bridges. - [Richard] Okay. - And those bridges talk to each other, and allows me to watch
the Hummingbird on shore. - [Richard] Yep. (water splashing) It did pretty good. It didn't flip over. - [Dan] That is very cool. (upbeat music) (machine beeps) - [Dennis] I see no cars. Grab it by the strap. Right there is one. That's a car. All the way that's a car. - [Tammy] Looks like a piece
of square concrete to me. - [Dennis] 642, 772 on that one. That is 641, 775. - [Tammy] Isn't that the
same, almost the same numbers? - [Dennis] I don't know, there's that one. 641, 774. - [Tammy] That's the same one. - I know there was at least two. We probably missed the
truck, because she said it was really close to the shore. We might've missed it. Go one way over there. I don't think any of them is new enough, but we are not gonna know til you set the jon boat down in there
and go look at them up close. - I think, yeah. I think all three of them
are already been dove that we know of in here. So maybe in the next couple of
days, we have the other teams while we're working on
those other cars down river. Some the teams over
here with Dad's Towing. Let's pull all three of those out. I have some really good
information and news. A lot of you've been following
along, and I've kind of been hinting towards a
magnetometer and a drone, and today just like right
here, we've got Troy with Skyfront, the CEO,
the founder, as well? - Yeah. - You know you flew all
the way from California to be with us here in Nashville. You're going to be with us
for the next couple of days. And right now we're just going
to kind of give a teaser, an overview as to who you
are, what it is that you have, what is we're going to be doing. And tomorrow's episode, we're going to go into a lot more depth showing
us what his drone can do, not just with the long
extent of flight time. Like, like you said, he's
going to quick overview with a magnetometer to actually
show us below the water, but also the sub floor
below the bed itself that we can actually
see below the dirt now. - Below the sand. - Below the sand, below
the silt, below the mud. So take it away, Troy. - Sure. So my name is Troy and I'm the
founder and CEO of Skyfront. So basically this is a
very capable platform that can perform a lot
of the same missions and activities that a regular
manned helicopter can do, but it's a 10th of the price. The secret to our long
endurance is that we are a hybrid gas, electric drone, right? So we use gasoline. We have a two-stroke engine
on board that converts gasoline into electricity,
and that is then distributed out to the motors and propellers. Gasoline has a hundred
times the energy density of batteries today, so
that's what allows us to get that really long flight time. - Have you ever actually
used the magnetometer yet to look for a vehicle in the water, or this your first mission first time? - Yeah, it's the first time. - So the good news is, is
I know that we have two, possibly three vehicles for you right here in this little pond. We're out of the way. You can test it to your heart's delight. Let's see what this can do today. - Fantastic, yeah. We're looking forward to it. (upbeat music) (drone whirring) (upbeat music) - So it's basically just
doing a raster scan. And the magnetometer is on
and it's collecting data. Tomorrow maybe I want to
get it like two meters off the water. - [Richard] Okay. - I'm just trying to
see what the limits are, because GPS above water is pretty bad because the radio signals
will just bounce right off and they'll go to the receiver,
and that confuses the GPS. (drone whirring) (upbeat music) We just did a flight
right now where we were just basically testing the
drone out over the water. The flight was mainly, so we
were all going to collect data, and we're going to process
that after the flight today. But it was mainly to figure
out exactly how high we need to be to fly the mission in
order to get close to the water. And you know, there's a
lot of uncertainty when it comes to GPS, especially
over water, bodies of water, which is what we're up over right now. - So be sure to check out Skyfront. I'll put their link in the
description below, and check them out, and you're going to see
them in an upcoming video. So if you're enjoying the video
so far, don't forget to like and subscribe, because it
definitely helps our algorithm, and we'll bring you more of these videos. So anyway, where to next, Dan? I think that where it's going
to take us is let's jump in with Team Waters, and we have
another pond that we're going to go search before the evening is over. (bluegrass music) - [Tammy] Oh, it's gated. - [Dennis] Closed today. - [Tammy] We ain't getting in there. - Was there a gate at 1:30 in the morning? We don't have those answers. I think that some people in
the search team party are going to have that, so right now
we're going to head back to the hotel, grab some of the information as to their searches today, and start to formulate the
game plan for tomorrow. So what did you guys find today? - Well, we decided to head
over to Percy Priest Lake, and cover as much water around
Nashville shores as we could. We spent an hour or so scanning. He was closer to the shoreline. I was a little further out,
and did find one anomaly out there that I'd like
Dennis to put his eyes on. Then we went over to
Hamilton Creek, put in there. Sam got to see the car, and
the boat that we cleared not too long ago, and
just kind of spread out from there and covered more water. - Okay, so I guess that
tomorrow's game plan is we have Dad's Towing is
going to be available at 1:30 in two different locations for us. So we have Bryson who has one,
if not two vehicles for us. Dad's Towing is also going to
check out the Two Rivers Lake. So they're going to check
that out tomorrow to identify if they can get a rotator
up on top that we can get enough line to pull out those three cars, whether we need to float them out from behind trees and whatnot. So we're going to have them
check that out tomorrow, but then the second
location, we need to identify what is that second location going to be? And then we also have our
little mission tomorrow morning as well, working
with the Tennessee Wildlife as well as, you know, the PD. And we're going to start
marking our cars also with the 14, 15, 16, 17 cars
that we have over there. So we have a busy, we
have a busy day tomorrow. - It's busy. - And so as far as splitting
up, we're just going to figure out how we can rotate
people into some of the, marking some of these. We're going to figure out
which teams need to start rigging some of these other ones. At the end of it, we just
need to have two cars ready to go at 1:30 tomorrow to
two different locations. So with that, we want to
thank Opryland for actually, they stepped up, they have
taken care of an entire block of rooms for us, so thank you for that. When you guys are doing
your scenes as well, please make sure that
we keep them in mind, because without them,
without all the support from the volunteers, from
the viewers, from everybody, we would not be here. We're going to do everything
we can to find Bill. Thank you very much. Stick around. If you've not already done
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