Inside the abandoned buildings under Lake Mead
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- In the 1930s engineers designed the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas, taming the Colorado River and giving a reliable water supply for California, Nevada, and Arizona.
Without that water, the Phoenix of today would not exist.
When the work was finished, many of the plants used to make and mix the concrete needed to build the dam were partially dismantled, abandoned, and flooded by what is now Lake Mead.
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96 men died working on the dam. They need to be remembered. Can imagine the unsafe working conditions they were in. Respect & Rest in Peace!
Theres a memorial there at the damn for a dog. He was the projects dog for all workers.
No OSHA then.
Shit, no one even KNOWS what when on then. I wouldn't doubt that most of the deaths were due to grudges, gambling debts, and power struggles. Most of those workers were burned severely by the alkaline properties in the concrete
So aparantly saying anything this guy doesnt agree with means you need to grow up.
@@Jessamer many men fell to their death. A few are still encapsulated in the now concrete.
I got certified as a diver at Lake Mead in the early 70's when the water was full pool. Kind of ugly until you got below 100 feet deep and then the water cleared up. I dove from Mexico to the puget sound and I really loved it. I'm to worn out anymore, but fond memories.
Now they have bodies in barrels cemented mafia hits
That's deep for learning how to dive...isn't it !? Were you a commercial diver??
@@anntrope491 Ann, I didn't go below probably 30-40 ft. until after I was certified. After I was certified I ventured deeper. And Yes the deeper you go the more you have to plan and use your navy dive tables and on the mixtures that a basic certification got you, I didn't do much deep diving. I spent most of my time in the Pacific, from the surface down to 45-50 ft. so I could get a couple of dives in a day.I did come up once too fast from below 100 ft. and got a bloody nose.LOL
6 ys ago. 100 ft & No bodies? Bummer.
I too got certified to dive in Lake Mead in 1984. I worked at Dive West on the weekends, and after school filling air tanks.
My Father told a story about the family car breaking down in a town in the 1920s that is now under water. He was a little boy. My grandfather hitched a ride to Las Vegas to get parts. His mother Camped by the car for 2 days with the kids. They had plenty of food.
It probably only took a couple hours to find the parts. He just got distracted by Vegas and didnt come back for two days. Hahaha
@@k.c.elemenopy2393 what happened in Vegas stayed in Vegas.
Lake Mead swallowed up St. Thomas, a small Mormon community. I first heard of this city while attending a relatives funeral who was born in St. Thomas. I thought of the island of tourism. I was quickly corrected and told part of the story. Some years ago the lake was low enough that I was able to walk the old streets and view foundations. I spent some time looking for anything to take home. I found 3 buttons all matching. I showed a relative and was shown a handmade coat that was missing three of the 5 buttons. They were a direct match.I explained where I found them and showed pictures. The spot was between a church building and the home of my relatives.
that happened
Amazing story. Glad you got to share that memory with them!
@@FordRangerClassics 🧢🧢🧢🧢
Tall tale lol
That's wild
Wish all local news was this interesting! Great story...deserves its own hour or two.
The old photos are brilliant, they don't even look like they're taken under water.
That’s beacause they weren’t those photos were taken b4 it flooded
@@kavinashmore6712 Really ? lol..
HAHAHAHA
😂🤣
@@65cj55 -Yes really. Did you listen to what the guy said or fell off to sleep. Grzze man Pay attention.
Abandoned? I would be shocked if they were occupied.
mermaids
Mirelurks
ARIA FIFTY QUAN?
I was thinking the same thing lol
😂😂😂
**"Everyone knows Mirelurks dwell under Lake Mead."**
Lakelurks*
Fallout 😆 I love it
@@jasonvon8115 p
Ave true to Caesar!
@@truck6280 wrong
The way things are going they will be able to hike down there soon!
I grew up in Vegas spent my high school years at lake mead jumping off cliffs .. so sad to see the water level so low. My family can no longer dock their boat - bc the water level is so low. It’s unrecognizable. sad times!
The only good is that the people who passed there will be found soon.
@Heather and I bet you looked sweet back then in your bikini 👙, running and jumping, then a bit of water💧💦 gushing up your butt when you landed into the water from a tall height.💧 😉😳😏😂🤣✌🏽 Have a nice day lol🍑😏😂✌🏽
I agree, I am a native of Las Vegas as well. Not only a shame to see what has happened to Lake Mead, but also to Las Vegas. Both are nothing but cess pools anymore.
@@geminisabah The one mob guy mentioned, "Jimmy is swimming with the fishes." So I figured he was in Lake Mead.
Water level so low, they just found a barrel with remains in it.
@@geminisabah Jimmy Hoffa
My grandmother and grandfather lived in that town underneath the lake called St Thomas. It was so heartbreaking I heard when they had to leave forced to leave. Many many people did not want to leave that town there's more to say but the lake is almost dead and I've been around it for the last 35 years of my life. We've got to do something about water because without water we can't survive
@@JC-kv1vn It's not assigned to Lake Mead that water goes to different areas in different states up north unfortunately
That happened all the time to many families all over the world. Entire towns even “relocated.” What’s bad are families who’s land was not flooded, but taken over by eminent domain because the land borders the new man made lake, and the Corp of engineers needed it. Our town even has part of a cemetery that had to be relocated there because of it.
We are just a few miles from St. Thomas and have gone to the now ghost town. We’ve gone to Hoover Dam and Valley of the Fire and several of the museums in the area. This are has great history
The problem is, just like people who build on flood plains, all those cities in California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico are all arid areas with little to no water. It’s only livable if water is pumped in and is present.
Stop wasting fresh potable water by adding it to human waste, & flushing down the toilet, & contaminating all the gray water from dish, clothes, & showers. Ban toxic chemicals too! Then gray water could be used for lawns, trees, & gardens. Use composting toilets...water saved?? All of it !!
In a few months they should be able to film that underwater structure without getting wet. That's an incredible structure. The U. S. would never build anything like that again. They'd hire some outside contractor.
Hopefully not. But perhaps
The people that worked in 120 degree heat building that dam did it for the money. They didn't give two shits about Hoover, Lake Mead, agriculture, or anything else. They worked they're ass off for themselves, just like we all do.
If doctors all of a sudden made only $10 an hour, they would drop their patients and look for a better job.
+Kirby haha, that was my thought too. They make it sound like it was volunteer work.
+Kirby That just shows you no nothing of....life. Many men take pride in any work they do, and if they did it just for a pay check, then it wouldn't have been made so well. I live in a 220 year old town, and my building is 197 years old. If the people made this "just for the pay check", it would of fell apart, long ago.
My grandfather worked on that damn, and I have seen the photos of him next to a bulldozer and another with him and his work crew. They took pride and art in their work back then. Ever heard the phrase "Don't make them like they used to"?
***** Sounds like you got photo's to prove your grandfather really did get him a job working on the damn.
Kirby No, I never said that. I said that I have seen them. Even if I did have the photos in my possession, it doesn't mean you deserve proof. I couldn't care less about your emotional stance on my life experiences and I don't owe you anything.
+Blackguard 3:16 a little sensitive, maybe? I make variable pay for different clients, I take much pride in all my work regardless of pay, but make no mistake, I do it for the money. Pride and money are different things that can go well together. Building that dam (which I have toured many times) is certainly something to be proud of.
My great grandpaents grew up in St Thomas. My grandmother was born in St Thomas she had nine siblings. The last name Burgess. Several families are related to us amazing to realize. They had to give up the house the cattle and everything and leave for this beautiful lake to be created. They moved to Overton logandale or Moapa valley to relocate. There were so many people that lost their lives creating and making this beautiful lake that we're losing day by day we were never forget everyone who came from the towns who helped make lake Mead and Hoover dam to what it was. Hard labor sweat blood pain and even death made those two beautiful sights known all over the world thank you and God bless
Did the cows get flooded under? Or what did they do with their cows?
They were moved along with the families to moapa valley
'Lake Mead' my foot! It's a Mudpool and it has Ruined the Colorado River!
Back in 1988 I was in Thousand Oaks California and there was a drought on the, and there was a water restriction on, and it meant that no one aloud to water their lawn I’m not sure if the street grass was still being watered.
I was also told that Southern California takes it water from Northern California, and that Southern California was built on desert land and that it wouldn’t be able to exist with out the water from Northern California.
One thing I really remember was how much space there was in Thousand Oaks I could walk up the hills in the morning and as far as the eye could see it was all empty land with no buildings or houses for miles around, it was beautiful to see.
You were lucky to see the odd light bulb shaped street with just 8 or so houses in the middle of no where and it was a rare sight.
But now if I look on Google earth all the empty spaces I saw are now full up with houses estates, and some how it doesn’t look so good now, the Southern California I once new with all of it’s very spacious land with business and houses around the time of the first Desert War with Bush Senior is just a memory now.
Great times with great people made an awesome visit to Southern California…😎
Abandoned?I don’t know… Some paint, throw pillows… A few flowers…
My grandfather was a Scottish immigrant, he was a stone mason and he worked on this dam.
thats really cool!! :D
That’s dam good of him!
"NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM" (13) The New Word is coming over us, be prepare (2020/2070)
My grandfather also worked on the dam 😊
@@faraon2012 what are u doing ti prepare?
That tunnel made me claustrophobic just watching the video!
You got a doble Plus on that brother 👌
I'm claustrophobic 😩and on top of that I'm terrified of open waters 😩
Videos like this make me feel petrified even in my house 🤣🤣
Omg that's amazing this is something I didn't know I'm glad people like you still put history out there
What's more amazing and of interest is the drop in water level.
It baffles me how people are completely oblivious to how critical it's getting for all water sources in the west.
It's so hard to think Lake Meade may become history,just like St. Thomas.
uthark runa. Hard to imagine that the sea level has been rising.
My husband and I stayed at the Hoover dam lodge nearby and they had a lot of photos and objects from when they built the dam it was interesting to see
It's 5 years later now, the lake continues to drop.. It should be a pretty shallow dive now.
Yes, even toddlers with their swim floatys can explore it.
@@pawpatrolnews how deep is it now?
@@kurtwagner350 According to Wikipedia, as of April of this year it's at 42% capacity.
@@pawpatrolnews thx
@@kurtwagner350 👍
Interesting how there's so little concern for the dramatic evaporation of Lake Mead, the ONLY water source that provides power and water to many desert cities including Las Vegas.
We found this can, no telling how long it’s been down here………umm, since last summer when bubba threw his empty beer can over the side of his boat
🙈🤣🤣🤨🤣👍🇦🇨
Did you really have to specify "abandoned" if it's underwater?
lol
Ryan Carmona 😁😁😁
Scuba divers in the 60s lived in the structures for 6 months and had constructed air bubble pockets. -factz
They even had a baby down there. Only baby to born under water eva'
D-blocka Hokka I have several hippie friends, they are alllll giving birth under water 🛀
So fascinating when you're so fascinating to find this information out when you're down there isn't it so cool I love it
The dam is made of concrete, not cement, cement is the binding agent in concrete, it’s amazing nobody can get this right.
The narrator uses the word concrete and cement appropriately
This was so interesting, thanks for showing!!!
Soon be able to live there again by the way the lake levels are going!
Troy thank you ,; Great story from the past.
Great job. Exploration and discovery. Lot of fun. Stay safe.
Amazing how the rocks are still rounded and smooth under water!!! WOW!!!
That's pretty DAM cool.
yeah! where do ya buy some Dam bait?
Wow
Dam good joke
Ahhh you go glen coco
Where in the hell is the damn dam tour?
Weird fact: 112 people died building the Hoover Dam. The first guy to die in the project was the father of the last guy to die. His death happened exactly 13 years to the day after the Fathers death!
And 13 is the Death Tarot card.
To quote Beavis and Butt-Head. "Is this like a god damn?"
Soon, people will be able to just walk to there
Sadly this is now so
I was at the dam before 9/11. You could walk across the top. Go inside the towers and take a tour the hydro units. The water level then was just starting to show the water drop. Now it's over 90 ft down from 1993
When you dive, even with a group, you feel so alone.
In the 1970's I free dived with friends off Newport Beach CA. I remember. You're right. (4/22/21)
That's Life
That's because you can die, all alone, even with a large dive group!
@@seadog686 if you die while diving in a "large" group. ether YOU seriously effed up. or you had health issues. you dive with a buddy and should be communicating. you dont feel alone but you feel at peace.
So, this was back in 2015, where they had to dive to see the site. fast forward to now, June 2022, and the way things are going, give it another 6 months, and you'll just be able to walk around the buildings wearing nothing but shorts, a t-shirt and sandals!
There’s a video showing just that.
Great report and fascinating👍
Some great history. Glad you shared adventure
When Lake Ouachita was being formed after Blakely Dam was built in AR, our family was told to demolish houses, barns, and the school house. My father did this in the 1940s for our small community.
I love Lake Ouachita, it's such a deep clear lake. I'm sorry about your community, tho'.
They got lucky that they didn't run into any mirelurks
i managed to kill some lakelurks there
Awe, true to Caesar!
Steven Z
go into VATS mode and shoot the face!!!
Lollll
Steven Z but did they found the crashed plane for the boomers ?
Great video!!!
Very nice video and fun to watch. Have a nice day.
Watching this 5 years later and there is still a drought and the lake is not yet empty, thank God.
No kidding. No water = no humans
Before the housing bust a few years back they were expecting the lake to be dry by 2016 with all the uncontrolled growth. Luckily the bubble burst and building here stopped, and our population started to decrease.
Does not look like our greedy, corrupt politicians paid much attention to the very close call we had, as they are once again allowing uncontrolled growth, which will only drain the lake faster.
it'll all be gone within a couple months. :)
The lake doesn’t need to empty for the damn to stop producing electricity. It’s not far from there now.
@@midwestnet2704 😆
Pretty soon. It will be a nice walk to it.
That’s pretty dang amazing. Wow!
Wow! Thankyou!
the workers who built the Hoover Dam are real heroes.
That's not a hero.
@@awkwardautistic they died for the benefit of America. Is that not a hero? I’m sorry they weren’t defusing landmines, but you can’t drink water from one
I figured they would find a big pile of beer cans.
Sugarloaf Mountain Films lmfao
MrYeshuaisyhwh yeah but what about all the spring breaker beer bottles that sink down to the bottom?
they did not have cans back then, just bottles.
I think the Hoover Dam construction site was a dry zone, alcohol forbidden. I watched a doco on it years back, it wasn't a fun place to work.
I know I left alot of beer cans there back in the 90's
My godfather was the electrical engineer on the Hoover Dam and 30+ more around the world. He was ‘loaned’ to Iron Curtain countries and other countries to build their dam-structures.
How’d he get the job?? Make em and offer they couldn’t refuse?? Oh crap I’m sorry couldn’t help it.” Everytime I get out they pull me back in” Come on ya know ya wanna do it.”C’mon Scotty just once for old time sake” just clearing up Dr.Scott. I have a ton of respect of the older generation. and didn’t mean anything disrespectful. He must of been a very intelligent and interesting man.Kind of guy that probably has some incredible stories.Just saw godfather and that’s what came out.
Thx for his service
Dam him !
He probably made dam good money...
@@fuzzybutkus3951 Did he remember to take the cannoli?
Great story. Well done
Fascinating!
That's an iconic photo of the back of the 'as yet, unused' dam wall, trouble is, if things keep going the way they're going (and I've a feeling they might!) then in a few years time, a VERY similar view of the 'by then, useless, ornamental' dam, will be visible to photograph again!!!
Another 12 feet level lost by September.
Nice job !!! Great video.
Wow... thats amazing
You guys are amazing. That's a dangerous job. Good luck.
Looks like we will be seeing these buildings soon with the drought.
Was just thinking this exact thing lol
@Biden Sucks they should’ve raked the water we wouldn’t lose so much then.
@@01bigtrev They also needed to do controlled burns on the water, that way you wouldn't have so much drought... lol
Many formerly underwater structures have been bone dry for a while.
it's not the drought, cause let's be honest the Colorado river area's have always had issues w/ dry seasons etc. It's what they news folks were talking about.. the modern Phx, Vegas and LA area's that depend on that water. With the extreme population growth in those cities is what's causing the lakes to recede so much and so quickly. People have always been the reason things get destroyed, nature always finds a way to fix things, but when people get involved forget about it. There is no fixing it.
There used to be railroad tracks off Boulder Beach as well and not in very deep water. I first saw them when I took up scuba diving 46 years ago. We were doing a checkout dive off of Boulder Beach in maybe 20 feet of water when i saw the tracks. There was a long wooden box along the tracks that i really wanted to check out, but the instructor had everyone surface before I had to a chance to look. Did not go looking again until years later and never found them again.
Arizona is about to loose a 3rd of its water supply from the Colorado river because of the drought.
Well, California gets most of it.
* Inside the abandoned buildings under Lake Mead *
Implying some are still occupied?
🤣🤣🤣
They were abandoned before being flooded. Don't understand why so many people in these comments have such trouble understanding such a simple concept.
I love how they keep repeating that Phoenix couldn't exist without the lake, while they show repeated shots of the lake with bath bathtub rings indicating it's probably 200 ft low!
Awsome report!
This is awesome great story I loved in Phoenix it's a bowl without the dam it wouldn't exist
What buildings? Railroad track, rocks, and a tunnel = buildings?
Well, they were BUILT by humans
That’s FOX news for ya
@@apocalyptic3837 but you cant go inside them so they're not buildings, railroad tracks are not the same as buildings.
@@itslentastic432 yes a building is a structor with alteast 50% of its height comes from floors where people can acces, anything less is a tower
Right?! I'd call those man-made structures, not buildings
I can't help but look at the shore line and how low the water level is as revealed by the white stripe on the landscape
Its only down two or three feet. The media acts as if you can walk across it and never get your feet wet. Lol
What do you think about it now?
Very informative! Ty
My Grandma enjoyed watching Jacque Cousteau. Not her head under the water, though. She saved her littlest sister's life. And that sister is alive today. My aunt became a nurse!
I didn't see any buildings in this video
“Rocks still standing as if they were left by the workers from years ago”…Really,do you actually listen to yourself?
WOW. History uncovered.
Learned to water ski there 1970, some very cold areas on that lake/ river ..many memories.
Amazing!! thank you for that. i never knew that was there under lake mead. brings a tear to my eye
There is also a bomber apparently the 29th of its kind down there as well.
@Butt Rigging yes Sir, butt Rigger
@@lelandgaunt9985 Yes, but up until recently it was too deep to dive for recreational divers.
*Great video. Thanks for sharing. The information is very helpful. Thanks a lot.*
Great video.
Very interesting reporting. I enjoyed this dive video very much. 🙂
I send you all love ❤️ from the Susquehanna valley in Pennsylvania.
Seems like, pretty soon, I can explore this place without SCUBA gear.
A couple more years and the cement plant can be reused !
Excellent story.
Very cool feature! 👌
And it would never get built today. It would have 30 years of red tape to even try.
+Brad Klingensmith Neither would the buildings and monuments in DC. The days of iconic building have gone. Every public penny is sucked up for other things
+TheLeatherChannel "other things" ...
like globalists and their sell-out DC ACTof1871 CORPORATION scumbags
Yeah.. For welfare and handouts. 😑
The environmental impact study alone would have killed this project.
Brad Klingensmith true, all sjw, tree huggers, fake ass global warming, transsexuals of the NFL who take a knee....how did we get to all this bullshit....
In the early 1930s, Boulder City, Nevada, was constructed to house 5,000 dam project workers. Before the city was built, many jobless men and their families who’d converged on the dam site, hoping to find employment in the midst of the Great Depression, had lived in squatters’ settlements.
Very hard to find a job back in the depression era. Today you can't find anybody to fill a job that is now vacant.
Sooo Interesting,!!!!!! Thank. Yall
Fascinating
Thanks for this great report, who knew that that even exist, there's nothing about history I learned a lot thanks 😊
I did. I have found train tracks under the lake diving back 46 years ago in the lake, and I have dove on the cement mixer.
There are some old settlements under the water such as the historical Pueblo Grande ruins, as well as several towns such as Calville, Rioville, etc. The settlement of St Thomas has been back above water for a while now.
Great job on the Hoover Dam!!!
Amazing
Fantastic video
Fascinating.
That was so cool. I love to check out abandoned structures but rarely get to. What a rush !
I love lake Meade! It’s so beautiful and peaceful there.
Mead**
Not anymore...
It has a big bath tub ring now.
WHEN WERE YOU THERE LAST? BECAUSE IT'S NEARLY GONE! ITS ABOUT 20 FEET DEEP AT THE DEEPEST PLACE! ITS A CRYING SHAME!!! SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THESE IDIOTS HAVE 'BRIGHT IDEAS'!
THEY'VE RUINED THE COLORADO RIVER!!!!!
That’s Excellent Video
Very cool.
I love that he briefly
mentions the water being down over 100ft....?!!??!!
Last time i flew into LV you could see how low the water was from the plane.
Great story! Fascinating to see the remnants on the bottom of Lake Mead.
Great Story!!
I Love It
Awesome! Wow
I remember driving an 18 wheeler across the dam in the mid 1990s . The Nevada side the truckers had to speak via cb to coordinate the southbound n northbound traffic. Two trucks couldn't make the hairpin turn without either the truck or trailer going in the opposing traffic lane. There was more than once when a dumb 4 wheeler would pass over the double yellow nearly causing a collision.
Lol at 3:07 you can hear a Facebook messenger notification noise
I thought it was my phone 🤣🤣🤣
Boomer Captain
we have a few flooded mining towns here in Ontario. very cool to explore even if not very safe from hilbillies
Beyond a awesome feat by many great people.
Those women who built that damn dam deserve our respect.
Lol.