This felt so weird and strange. With just your voice and no other background noise, you really get a sense of how the area has changed. All those boats! Neat and scary at the same time. Your example of how quickly the sand can collapse was chilling! Thanks for such a great video and please stay safe!
Thank you for checking out the video and the comments, appreciate that! It really does feel eerie down there now I try to capture the mood so I'm glad you saw it!
I'm glad you mention this because during the whole ordeal I've had a nagging gut feeling that the dam outflow will finally be regulated like it should have, the lake will refill full as ever, and all of us will be called crazy alarmists for ever worrying about it. The last 3-4 weeks here, they throttled the Hoover Dam outflow and now the lake is up nearly 4 feet in elevation... it's almost like we've had the solutions all along.
Danita, the water in Lake Mead come from the rain and snow in the highlands and mountains in parts of Arizonan, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. 😎
Very good video. Peacefully made without sensation, told with the respect that the place deserves due to its relic values and lasting memories of good and not so good past existence.
We boat raced out at Lake Mead back in the 70's. My parents and their friends were members of Las Vegas Boat and Ski Club. My mom speed skied unbelievably for someone who couldn't swim! I can promise you that some of those motors are from some high speed accidents out there. I've personally witnessed several crazy boating accidents that would have qualified for wide world of sports footage. It was for the most part pretty uneventful, but there were engine fires, flatbottoms that caught air and would flip, collisions, and other types of accidents that can just happen going that fast on water. I loved growing up at Lake Mead back then, and seeing it like it is these days is really crazy!
Thank you for the info Mark, I did not consider that! That set of tires was exposed before this current drought though even, it just looks like trash now... I guess they are hoping the water level goes back so they don't have to remove them!
Here in New Hampshire we have no such problem. We have ample rain and all the lakes are brimming with water. Lake Winnepeasake, Lake Sunappee, NewFound Lake, Squam Lake, and many others are fine. Boaters, Kayakers, Fishermen are all enjoying the lakes. Temperature are cool and comfortable in the 70's and low 80's. We got some more rain today. Drought only seems to be a problem on the left coast. I wonder why?
Nice video I can remember the early 80's giant fish swimming around 🐟 at the visitors center, and water rushing over the spillway into the abyss. TY for the memories!
That would have been a sight to see! Now we can only imagine. I am going to try and include the spillway before and after in my next video. That I think is one of the most shocking differences
Hi From Baja California! Checking in again, as I am working on my Water Watch article for this January. I've taken some quote from your last video. Seeing is believing and here in Baja, most everyone is misinformed by those selling real estate. But it is probably more about no one likes bad news. I hope that some will check out your videos to see with their own eyes the depletion of Mead and that it is no joke. I will be very interested if the basin states can come to the table to agree, or if the Feds take charge. So for the winter months with a little rain, there won't be much news to report, but I'm believing at this point when we have the cuts and summer hits, there will be plenty to report. Thank you for your update,
Hello again 👋welcome back that is excellent, hope you find some more useful info in the videos! I'm sure you can educate us on some things happening in that area in regards to the drought also. I just finished a follow up to this video today called BOAT WRECK HUNT II here: th-cam.com/video/t2DYCnDNh4o/w-d-xo.html I went over Mead's water level at the end of that video. Another good resource is the weekly USBR lower basin report which we use to chart the major reservoirs. They update it weekly here: www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/weekly.pdf Perhaps some folks down there are familiar with the Colorado river delta area in MX? I hear it has dried up from the reduced flow and most of the entire wetlands ecosystem has been devastated in that area. Not many people even consider that Mexico is part of the water agreement also. Would be interesting to see how the drought and upstream usage has affected the endpoint. Take care down there! We'll be in a holding pattern through winter now seeing what comes out of the negotiations (or lack thereof)
Hey MOJO, I just found your channel and I really enjoyed the production value. Having been a "Hot Rod Boat" enthusiast for many years I find these abandoned wrecks really fascinating . Your narration voice is perfect for the stark and almost mystery like setting of what used to be a massive lake. PS; I believe most of the engine blocks that you've come across were used as anchors for buoys or maybe large craft such as "House Boats" which needed several hundred pounds of ballast to insure that what was attached to them up on the lake surface could not be easily pushed around by the very high winds which are common to very large surface acre-feet lakes such as Mead and Powell. Thank you for a very interesting tour of this now alien-like landscape!
Awesome thank you for the comment and welcome to the channel! 👍 I did notice some had chains so that made sense... I just couldn't imagine them hauling these big rusty blocks up onto the boats everytime they went to leave 😂 Can't wait to see what's deeper down there!
@@mojo.adventures Keep up your great work and I'll be watching 👀. Cheers, Tim ps I think that instead of lifting the ⚓️ anchors a bouy could have been attached with some sort of cable to a "houseboat " so they could return at a later time. Anyways, the drought is uncovering all sorts of mysteries which have been hidden for decades 🤔.
But it won't happen. People rather say--- This sure use to be a nice place, now look at it.------- It cost nothing to litter a place up, but the clean up is very expensive.
It sure would! Thankfully I have seen some cleanup down there since the video.👍 I would love to haul the boats/engines off myself but It gets tricky being a nat'l park and all. It would take some kind of open event from the NPS. As much as I'd love to just rip around down there like I've seen some folks do, it is technically still part of the lake and I respect the no vehicles rule. People should not be driving there unless the park posts official opening/signage. Otherwise, I could easily get to these spots with a trailer! Thank you for watching 😎
The value of scrap metal at this time is worth crap thanks to the leadership we have the same thing happened in Obama's era scrap drop to half a cent a pound. I run a small scrap company I know the value of the metals
Check out Merlin’s old school garage he and his cousin recovered a jet boat from the lake, got it running and gave it back to the original owner and his wife. The owner told a very touching story of what happened the fateful day 30 years ago.
@@mojo.adventures haha Yeah We need to find the Boat Owners! You should see if the local Sheriffs or PD or MVD can run the Boat numbers and find out who was the owners so you can research and to get in touch.
Agree with that but also seeing as it's managed by NPS the state can't really do much without clearing a bunch of red tape... it'd be nice to see the FED get off it's behind and take some interest in repairing it's own country for once
There's enough boats lying around for someone, if they had the will and right tools, to gather them all together and make Boat-henge - a tribute to the lake that once was and the folly of man in general.
Cool idea now we're on to something I like that!😎 A reminder to all of the hubris of man and his failed attempts at taming Mother Nature. It could be like the "International Car Forest" in Goldfield but with boats. If you aren't familiar with that place you can see it in my Central Nevada clip: th-cam.com/video/2czGWbuZz-4/w-d-xo.html and actually they would be right at home there too, I might have to reach out to the owner
I'll be honest, I'm amazed that the state isn't hauling all these wrecks out, not even conservation groups making an effort to clear out the trash. I know it's a desert but it's not often you have the chance to clean the bottom of a lake like this... Not that I expect it will be getting back to these levels in my lifetime.
No , build a boat from the junk n take the river to the ocean and go all over , travel the world in your junk , if anybody is in contact me. We will sail the seven seas n a few rivers.
Thanks for posting, many artifacts, or garbage, or clues of what was..... interesting in a sad way. Not a place to be alone, isolated, and get into something threatening, whatever that could be. Lot
Now would be a good time for the park service to show some interest, and clean up the garbage ! What a shame. Just FYI that boat you tried to turn over was a jet boat with a Berkley drive.
Thank you for the info! I am going back with some help and going to try and leverage it over. Just never know what might be in there still! If the park service doesn't have time/funding to do it they should at least open up some kind of volunteer cleanup where people like me can drive down there and haul stuff out. I am seeing if I can work something out but not very hopeful with all the red tape...
Wow thanks Grant that means a lot, people taking time to leave feedback makes trodding around in the brutal heat and mud pits worthwhile. Appreciate you tuning in!✌
Hey! Great job on this, very interesting. l live about 1500 miles from there, and not too much of a globe trotter, but watching it, and your narration, is dang near as good as my being there. Am subscribing, don't want to miss when you kayak over to the other boats. Thanks! 🌈
Thank you so much for watching and the support J Martin! Glad to have earned your subscription 😎 Have a lot of interesting things in the works, the kayak adventure to Gilligans Island will have to wait for the summer heat to subside but I'll get out there soon! Cheers~✌️
Very well done and the best illustration of just how low the lake is I have seen to date. Who has seen the story of The Yellow Submarine on Fab Rats and Merlin's Old School Garage channels? They rescued a 21-foot ski boat that had been under 30 years and got her going again, even the engine (no joke, I'm serious). They then found the owners and they story they had to tell is frightening to say the least. Check the two channels out, the last episode of the half dozen was only last week.
We enjoy the Fab Rats channel also and just got done watching the boat "reunion" episode with the owners. How I'd love to do something like that... but the red tape with the NPS isn't worth the headache. If they would just give me 1 week to free roam with the Jeep and snatch stuff... like Ed from MORR says WE'LL GET 'EM OUT 😂
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That is pretty cool thank you for commenting! Sad to see someone lost it like this, I bet it was their baby must have been hard to accept knowing it was sitting down there this whole time!
Much better video then another newly known channel. Hate being told by a young boy what to do and how to do it.. Brings a bad vibe.. You got a sub out of me!
Question: I know that the general public can't up the trash, tires, boats etc. Will the National Park Service that lake Meade is, ever clean up -collect all the stuff?
I doubt it, they always cite lack of funding when I question about the dismal state of this place. I've paid my entrance fee at the gate for the last decade, I wonder what slush fund that money has been going into...
To bad the park service may not have the money. Why can't they organize a weekend were volunteers both employees and public can come clean the area up.
Good info, thank you for watching and commenting! 👍 They are all over the (former) lake floor. I see some of the marinas are still using them as a breakwater too!
Fab rats and merlin's old school garage went there and recovered a ski boat that had been on the bottom for 30 years. They took it home rebuilt the motor re fiber glassed the hull and 3 weeks later had it back on the lake using it. Then they found the original owners and gave it back to them,They called it the yellow submarine project.
We've been following the fab rats project also! I would love to do something like that. As you can see from their first episode though, a large part of the work is just getting legal clearance from NPS to remove artifacts from the park
thanks for doing that. we came out there in 2015 to see our son who was stationed at nellis afb. we went out to lake mead and saw the line of the water back then. what do you think is going to happen to las vegas when the lake dries up totally?
I spent a lot of time at Nellis also, not a shabby base! I personally don't think it will dry up totally, the way the 3rd intake was designed, the dam will stop outstream flow to CA / MX before Las Vegas looses drinking water. If CA looses their irrigation water, the entire country is going to be facing produce shortages. I am more prepared for a food shortage than for the town to dry up. My hope (best case scenario) is that all the big city folks that have fled Southern California, Oregon, Washington etc last 5 years or so will panic sell and leave town, making water usage more manageable here. This small desert outpost was never meant to sustain a population like this without the infrastructure already in place, which it wasn't! New transplants to the desert in general do not respect the conservation mindset here, they come buy into exclusive new construction communities with grass and pools because they see the cost of living is so much lower than where they came from. This trend needs to stop the river can't keep up. Thanks for checking out the video and commenting!
I agree the Higgins boat should be restored it's complete enough even if it has to be completely redone but they had a twin disc forward and reverse transmission that was made to where you could use full power on the engine and go from forward to reverse to get off of sandbars without having to let the motor idle to shift and they also had really strong bilge pumps
Wow good information thank you for sharing! I know little of the Higgins boats but I just started looking more into who was contracted out to build them and their components. I never thought they may have had specific engineering to navigate the sandbars. I hope it gets pulled out soon because once that wood dries out again and the brutal desert sun chaps it, it's going to turn to splinters and dust quickly.
That yellow speed (called yellow submarine) boat was under water for 30 years in lake powell and Fab Rats recovered it and it still runs after 30 years in water. Someone should try it with the speed boat in this video.
Thank you Randy for the info! I did not consider that, but I can guarantee no fish are living in them anymore 😉 Seeing how these tires were exposed before the current drought and this harbor hasn't been functional for years, I can only call it what it is at this point... trash.
They have done some smaller scale cleanup this week near the beaches area, I can attest to that at least. It may just be because multiple remains were found and investigated there. In general I don't think they care much to clean up the lake or have the funding to do so properly it's been neglected so long. We will indeed be adding vehicle walkarounds including "Walter" my '06 LJ in the future. They will go under our "Vehicles/Gear" category so stay tuned. Thanks for watching!
arround the 8 min mark that boat reminds me of Fab Rats channel they recoverd a boat like that from lake powell i believe 30yrs under water, they even got the engine in it running again
Those truck tires were all chained together - sot for some reason there was the making of 2 buoy spots to anchor up there. Maybe a double anchorage for a house boat location.
Can you feel the southwest vibes from there? 🤠🌵 Whenever out exploring the desert I can confirm this music is quietly playing on the breeze... I hope I captured it well! Thank you for watching and the kind words ✌
That one speed boat That had the wonder bread markings that had the tanks on either side of the engine you can see they almost imploded from the water pressure it must’ve been pretty deep at one time
Thank you for watching and commenting! Our "Lake Mead Secrets" episodes have been covering the bodies, but oddly enough after the first couple were found the water level started rising and nothing else has been discovered.
Got to love that people can just leave their junk and the state doesn't seem to care about cleaning these up either. But I guess they just assume that the water will come back up and cover everything up again eventually.
Yep you guessed it, it's down Government Wash. On satellite view you can see it sticking out of water still. Not a tough hike at all since you can off road down several different routes to pretty get close if you have a capable vehicle. The vegetation is the only thing that will make it hard to get close now. I have never seen it green like that down there before!
Its sad that so many boats are left. I you have boat insurance, they pay to have the boat retrieved and all hazardous waste removed from water...least in Michigan. Thanks for video!
Sad. I lived in Vegas for over 20 years when the lake was still full and the carp were so thick, you could walk on em! To see it slowly go down, year after year, was so depressing, I moved away in 2004. I remember the rumours of Mafia hits landing at the bottom of the lake in barrels and, even boaters and good swimmers drowning in the ice cold water. One girl I remember because of her unusual name; Venus. I don't know if they ever recovered her. Sad.
I arrived shortly after you left and even I remember the same, the water being so much fuller. The lake also seemed to have much more "life" in general... between the flora and fauna, and the business from boaters at all the marinas on the weekend. I can't imagine the heyday's in the late 80's early 90's. Just gloomy down there now after so many years of neglect.
People used to dump tires like those chained together to form kind of a fish habitat or hideout, and go back later and fish for them. The bigger the tire the bigger the fish!
The mud is full of water. As it dries out, the mud shrinks The dirt contracts as the water is removed. So you get the cracks and eventually the earth dries completely up and the dirt gets dusty and blows and will fill in the cracks It also collapses in on itself and sinks down. Really amazing how much water is removed from the basin. But still 20 years of water in there
I am realizing it is a natural process since the pattern is repeating all around the lake, but it is still fascinating to see and walk on. I am guessing once the cracks all crumble again and settle, it is going to be a giant field of fine silt, or what we call "poof dirt"
There you go! Yep it's right behind the Water Treatment Plant! I stay away from the exposed intake, gives me the heebee geebies😂 There is something about this lake it's got a mind of it's own. Thanks again for watching and subscribing friend!
@@mojo.adventures i cant say i blame you, that's a big old pipe, our local reservoir "ladybower reservoir" gives me the same heebee geebies, especially at full flood when waters thundering down the plugholes, they havent even got grilles on them like that intake, and there smooth, nothing to grab hold of, if your in ladybower lake and get too close to them, your getting sucked straight down rhe mouth of the intake, down a 100 foot drop, and blown through a 150 foot long by about 8 foot diameter pipe 😂 That intake number 1 looks to be more out of the water now than it did in a video i saw on that mexican fishermans channel a week ago, by a lot, like about 4 feet I dont think its gonna be ling before intake 2 is showing 🤦♂️
Lake Mead began filling in late 1934 and the average daily surface elevations are measured from 1 February 1935. When elevation data began to be collected. The reservoir did not reach elevation 1,045 feet above mean-sea-level (msl), the elevation of the upper outlet works, until 1 May 1937. The reservoir filled to an elevation of greater than 1,200 feet (normal maximum) above msl, by mid-1941. So in total the reservoir took about 7 years to fill. Resource: -Robert Shephard on Quora M.S. in Engineering & Management
I checked the other day and found that the Colorado river isn’t flowing much less than normal. It looks like the lakes are getting so low because all of the desert cities are way to big for the lakes to supply them with water.
@@CatalinaFOIA Good info there thank you for sharing! I have a video clip or photo somewhere of the last resident in St. Thomas (flooded under Lake Mead) watching the rising waters engulf the doorstep of their home. That would have been a site to see...
I have seen small cleanup efforts around the swim beach areas, more focused on litter like bottles, trash, etc... definitely nothing large scale for the bigger waste like boats, marina materials, tires etc. Was there last week and all the boats are in the same places!
I last went to Vegas about 10 years ago and done the trip to the Hoover Dam and grand canyon etc.....the water level was very low then so its shocking to see it now.......I'm surprised there arnt people cleaning up the debris left when the water recedes. I know for a fact if this was the UK there would be absolutely not a scrap of metel left anywhere.
They aren't doing a "dam" thing. Won't even make it easy for individuals like me to help out set up a volunteer effort. They are real good at collecting the entrance fee however
Nice work those tires have DOT NUMBERS on them. The last three month and year. This will tell you and us how long they may have been down there😅. Of course add a few years
Great video music is perfect. This is scary that much water is gone. What about our food growing near California. Humans are really in trouble. But humans think they can change the natural water ways and Mother Nature shows who boss for fact. Thank you this video is a sure wake up call.
Good point! It always seems the solution is more man-made disasters, more diversions, more meddling with nature, and of course... more development in arid regions without infrastructure that will never be slowed or halted. Surely the humans who surveyed the river back in the 1920's thought the had it right too...
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I love your channel that I stumbled upon. Very fascinating images and narration. Thank you for doing this!
Great to hear! 👍We're just starting up the channel and appreciate you stopping by to leave a comment
Thanks for a great vid.
The way some of those large tires are chained together makes me wonder if they were sunk to be used as anchor points.
This felt so weird and strange. With just your voice and no other background noise, you really get a sense of how the area has changed. All those boats! Neat and scary at the same time. Your example of how quickly the sand can collapse was chilling! Thanks for such a great video and please stay safe!
Thank you for checking out the video and the comments, appreciate that! It really does feel eerie down there now I try to capture the mood so I'm glad you saw it!
Nicely filmed, and narrated. Almost professional.😎Felt like I was actually there. Subscribed!
Thank you so much for the support and kind words! ✌
Offenhauser or Offy. That's a really nice racing engine in that boat.. well, WAS nice
Imagine that it rains and snows a lot in the coming winter and this lake fills up again. That would be wonderful.
I'm glad you mention this because during the whole ordeal I've had a nagging gut feeling that the dam outflow will finally be regulated like it should have, the lake will refill full as ever, and all of us will be called crazy alarmists for ever worrying about it. The last 3-4 weeks here, they throttled the Hoover Dam outflow and now the lake is up nearly 4 feet in elevation... it's almost like we've had the solutions all along.
Rains and snows,in Vegas,lol
Danita, the water in Lake Mead come from the rain and snow in the highlands and mountains in parts of Arizonan, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. 😎
Very good video. Peacefully made without sensation, told with the respect that the place deserves due to its relic values and lasting memories of good and not so good past existence.
We boat raced out at Lake Mead back in the 70's. My parents and their friends were members of Las Vegas Boat and Ski Club. My mom speed skied unbelievably for someone who couldn't swim! I can promise you that some of those motors are from some high speed accidents out there. I've personally witnessed several crazy boating accidents that would have qualified for wide world of sports footage. It was for the most part pretty uneventful, but there were engine fires, flatbottoms that caught air and would flip, collisions, and other types of accidents that can just happen going that fast on water. I loved growing up at Lake Mead back then, and seeing it like it is these days is really crazy!
The tires, being chained together, more than likely put there as fish habitat, a common practice.
Thank you for the info Mark, I did not consider that! That set of tires was exposed before this current drought though even, it just looks like trash now... I guess they are hoping the water level goes back so they don't have to remove them!
That’s exactly what that is!
@@mojo.adventures Even if the water level never gets back, they'll never remove them.
Voice of doom who only likes to make things sound worse. Not for me.
Here in New Hampshire we have no such problem. We have ample rain and all the lakes are brimming with water. Lake Winnepeasake, Lake Sunappee, NewFound Lake, Squam Lake, and many others are fine. Boaters, Kayakers, Fishermen are all enjoying the lakes. Temperature are cool and comfortable in the 70's and low 80's. We got some more rain today. Drought only seems to be a problem on the left coast. I wonder why?
Nice video I can remember the early 80's giant fish swimming around 🐟 at the visitors center, and water rushing over the spillway into the abyss.
TY for the memories!
That would have been a sight to see! Now we can only imagine. I am going to try and include the spillway before and after in my next video. That I think is one of the most shocking differences
Thank you for this. I get Fallout New Vegas vibes of your walking the wasteland.
Hi From Baja California!
Checking in again, as I am working on my Water Watch article for this January.
I've taken some quote from your last video. Seeing is believing and here in Baja, most everyone is misinformed by those selling real estate. But it is probably more about no one likes bad news.
I hope that some will check out your videos to see with their own eyes the depletion of Mead and that it is no joke.
I will be very interested if the basin states can come to the table to agree, or if the Feds take charge. So for the winter months with a little rain, there won't be much news to report, but I'm believing at this point when we have the cuts and summer hits, there will be plenty to report.
Thank you for your update,
Hello again 👋welcome back that is excellent, hope you find some more useful info in the videos! I'm sure you can educate us on some things happening in that area in regards to the drought also. I just finished a follow up to this video today called BOAT WRECK HUNT II here: th-cam.com/video/t2DYCnDNh4o/w-d-xo.html I went over Mead's water level at the end of that video. Another good resource is the weekly USBR lower basin report which we use to chart the major reservoirs. They update it weekly here: www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/weekly.pdf
Perhaps some folks down there are familiar with the Colorado river delta area in MX? I hear it has dried up from the reduced flow and most of the entire wetlands ecosystem has been devastated in that area. Not many people even consider that Mexico is part of the water agreement also. Would be interesting to see how the drought and upstream usage has affected the endpoint.
Take care down there! We'll be in a holding pattern through winter now seeing what comes out of the negotiations (or lack thereof)
Hey MOJO, I just found your channel and I really enjoyed the production value. Having been a "Hot Rod Boat" enthusiast for many years I find these abandoned wrecks really fascinating . Your narration voice is perfect for the stark and almost mystery like setting of what used to be a massive lake. PS; I believe most of the engine blocks that you've come across were used as anchors for buoys or maybe large craft such as "House Boats" which needed several hundred pounds of ballast to insure that what was attached to them up on the lake surface could not be easily pushed around by the very high winds which are common to very large surface acre-feet lakes such as Mead and Powell. Thank you for a very interesting tour of this now alien-like landscape!
Awesome thank you for the comment and welcome to the channel! 👍 I did notice some had chains so that made sense... I just couldn't imagine them hauling these big rusty blocks up onto the boats everytime they went to leave 😂 Can't wait to see what's deeper down there!
@@mojo.adventures Keep up your great work and I'll be watching 👀. Cheers, Tim ps I think that instead of lifting the ⚓️ anchors a bouy could have been attached with some sort of cable to a "houseboat " so they could return at a later time. Anyways, the drought is uncovering all sorts of mysteries which have been hidden for decades 🤔.
It would be nice to see a lot of that salvaged. And the trash collected 😢
That's not how liberals work, they just destroy
But it won't happen. People rather say--- This sure use to be a nice place, now look at it.------- It cost nothing to litter a place up, but the clean up is very expensive.
I would love to salvage all of them
It sure would! Thankfully I have seen some cleanup down there since the video.👍 I would love to haul the boats/engines off myself but It gets tricky being a nat'l park and all. It would take some kind of open event from the NPS. As much as I'd love to just rip around down there like I've seen some folks do, it is technically still part of the lake and I respect the no vehicles rule. People should not be driving there unless the park posts official opening/signage. Otherwise, I could easily get to these spots with a trailer! Thank you for watching 😎
The value of scrap metal at this time is worth crap thanks to the leadership we have the same thing happened in Obama's era scrap drop to half a cent a pound.
I run a small scrap company I know the value of the metals
Check out Merlin’s old school garage he and his cousin recovered a jet boat from the lake, got it running and gave it back to the original owner and his wife. The owner told a very touching story of what happened the fateful day 30 years ago.
It would be really cool to find the owners of the boats at least to hear their storys of that day that it sunk! That would be so cool!
I was hoping that would be a side effect of the comments section someone can explain what was going on here 😂
@@mojo.adventures haha Yeah We need to find the Boat Owners! You should see if the local Sheriffs or PD or MVD can run the Boat numbers and find out who was the owners so you can research and to get in touch.
You need to check out the Fab Rats and the boat they found in Lake Powell th-cam.com/video/LqesgLNUe4Q/w-d-xo.html
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Fabrats just returned a boat they found after 30 years underwater to the old owners, amazing sinking story too...
The tires were put down most likely for artificial reefs for fish to inhabit. That is why they were chained together.
Thank you! I said the same thing.
12:10 The "chained tires" are called "bumpers" and are secured to piers to cushion the impact when a vessel's hull makes contact.
Amazing thanks for sharing
LOVE THIS - thanks for taking the time to share with us!!
Thank you for watching hope you enjoyed it!😎
This is a golden moment for Arizona and Nevada to come together and clean up this junkyard.........
Agree with that but also seeing as it's managed by NPS the state can't really do much without clearing a bunch of red tape... it'd be nice to see the FED get off it's behind and take some interest in repairing it's own country for once
Excellent video brother. I watched the entire video from beginning to end. You narrated excellent 👍 thank you
Thank you for watching and commenting, appreciate that!✌
There's enough boats lying around for someone, if they had the will and right tools, to gather them all together and make Boat-henge - a tribute to the lake that once was and the folly of man in general.
Cool idea now we're on to something I like that!😎 A reminder to all of the hubris of man and his failed attempts at taming Mother Nature. It could be like the "International Car Forest" in Goldfield but with boats. If you aren't familiar with that place you can see it in my Central Nevada clip: th-cam.com/video/2czGWbuZz-4/w-d-xo.html and actually they would be right at home there too, I might have to reach out to the owner
I'll be honest, I'm amazed that the state isn't hauling all these wrecks out, not even conservation groups making an effort to clear out the trash. I know it's a desert but it's not often you have the chance to clean the bottom of a lake like this... Not that I expect it will be getting back to these levels in my lifetime.
@@KMCA779 Whether it comes back or not you are absolutely right get that crap out of there💯👍✌️
Make a pile, burn them
No , build a boat from the junk n take the river to the ocean and go all over , travel the world in your junk , if anybody is in contact me. We will sail the seven seas n a few rivers.
You have a gift for photography.
Thank you appreciate that!
The big tires are structure for fish to live in.
Thanks for posting, many artifacts, or garbage, or clues of what was.....
interesting in a sad way.
Not a place to be alone, isolated, and get into something threatening, whatever that could be.
Lot
Offenhauser makes intake manifolds specifically made for jet boats.
Great opportunity to clean up and discard all of the boats and miscellaneous debris. I’d like to see a video of that.
Now would be a good time for the park service to show some interest, and clean up the garbage ! What a shame. Just FYI that boat you tried to turn over was a jet boat with a Berkley drive.
Thank you for the info! I am going back with some help and going to try and leverage it over. Just never know what might be in there still! If the park service doesn't have time/funding to do it they should at least open up some kind of volunteer cleanup where people like me can drive down there and haul stuff out. I am seeing if I can work something out but not very hopeful with all the red tape...
I have watched many lake mead videos and yours was the most impressive
Wow thanks Grant that means a lot, people taking time to leave feedback makes trodding around in the brutal heat and mud pits worthwhile. Appreciate you tuning in!✌
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the visit and comment, happy hounding partner!
Hey! Great job on this, very interesting. l live about 1500 miles from there, and not too much of a globe trotter, but watching it, and your narration, is dang near as good as my being there. Am subscribing, don't want to miss when you kayak over to the other boats. Thanks! 🌈
Thank you so much for watching and the support J Martin! Glad to have earned your subscription 😎 Have a lot of interesting things in the works, the kayak adventure to Gilligans Island will have to wait for the summer heat to subside but I'll get out there soon! Cheers~✌️
Very well done and the best illustration of just how low the lake is I have seen to date.
Who has seen the story of The Yellow Submarine on Fab Rats and Merlin's Old School Garage channels? They rescued a 21-foot ski boat that had been under 30 years and got her going again, even the engine (no joke, I'm serious). They then found the owners and they story they had to tell is frightening to say the least. Check the two channels out, the last episode of the half dozen was only last week.
We enjoy the Fab Rats channel also and just got done watching the boat "reunion" episode with the owners. How I'd love to do something like that... but the red tape with the NPS isn't worth the headache. If they would just give me 1 week to free roam with the Jeep and snatch stuff... like Ed from MORR says WE'LL GET 'EM OUT 😂
I enjoyed the video, very interesting. Thank you.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea !"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
That ofenHauser aluminum intake manifold is pretty neat that was and still is an expensive rare piece it was add-on speed equipment of the day
That is pretty cool thank you for commenting! Sad to see someone lost it like this, I bet it was their baby must have been hard to accept knowing it was sitting down there this whole time!
@@mojo.adventures and not wanting to come and get it because of the fine LOL
Oh heck yes, there are some serious dollars just in that one part if it's still OK.
Very interesting. I love seeing what the lake reveals every month
Much better video then another newly known channel. Hate being told by a young boy what to do and how to do it.. Brings a bad vibe.. You got a sub out of me!
Question: I know that the general public can't up the trash, tires, boats etc. Will the National Park Service that lake Meade is, ever clean up -collect all the stuff?
I doubt it, they always cite lack of funding when I question about the dismal state of this place. I've paid my entrance fee at the gate for the last decade, I wonder what slush fund that money has been going into...
To bad the park service may not have the money. Why can't they organize a weekend were volunteers both employees and public can come clean the area up.
@@mojo.adventures overpaid government employees pensions and bombs to israel to murder palestinians
They don't care because the taxpayers aren't going to fund it
Thank you.
Thanks for the awesome content! 😊 I enjoyed your “Easter egg hunt” 😊
Glad you enjoyed it! 😎 Thank you for leaving a comment ✌️🌵
The fisherman in me would be marking all of the GPS coordinates of good structural items to fish. The water will be back up one day.
You got an excellent idea there I was actually already mapping out the ruins and wrecks, I may have to add fishing holes to my map too!
@@mojo.adventures
Let us know in a few years how well the fishing holes work!
12:10 The "chained tires" are called "bumpers" and are secured to piers to cushion the impact when a vessel's hull makes contact.
Good info, thank you for watching and commenting! 👍 They are all over the (former) lake floor. I see some of the marinas are still using them as a breakwater too!
Fab rats and merlin's old school garage went there and recovered a ski boat that had been on the bottom for 30 years. They took it home rebuilt the motor re fiber glassed the hull and 3 weeks later had it back on the lake using it. Then they found the original owners and gave it back to them,They called it the yellow submarine project.
We've been following the fab rats project also! I would love to do something like that. As you can see from their first episode though, a large part of the work is just getting legal clearance from NPS to remove artifacts from the park
Thank you for this video. I feel as if i went on this adventure aswell. And now i have stories to tell lol
thanks for doing that. we came out there in 2015 to see our son who was stationed at nellis afb. we went out to lake mead and saw the line of the water back then. what do you think is going to happen to las vegas when the lake dries up totally?
I spent a lot of time at Nellis also, not a shabby base! I personally don't think it will dry up totally, the way the 3rd intake was designed, the dam will stop outstream flow to CA / MX before Las Vegas looses drinking water. If CA looses their irrigation water, the entire country is going to be facing produce shortages. I am more prepared for a food shortage than for the town to dry up. My hope (best case scenario) is that all the big city folks that have fled Southern California, Oregon, Washington etc last 5 years or so will panic sell and leave town, making water usage more manageable here. This small desert outpost was never meant to sustain a population like this without the infrastructure already in place, which it wasn't! New transplants to the desert in general do not respect the conservation mindset here, they come buy into exclusive new construction communities with grass and pools because they see the cost of living is so much lower than where they came from. This trend needs to stop the river can't keep up. Thanks for checking out the video and commenting!
That Offenhauser engine is top of the line high performance
I agree the Higgins boat should be restored it's complete enough even if it has to be completely redone but they had a twin disc forward and reverse transmission that was made to where you could use full power on the engine and go from forward to reverse to get off of sandbars without having to let the motor idle to shift and they also had really strong bilge pumps
Wow good information thank you for sharing! I know little of the Higgins boats but I just started looking more into who was contracted out to build them and their components. I never thought they may have had specific engineering to navigate the sandbars. I hope it gets pulled out soon because once that wood dries out again and the brutal desert sun chaps it, it's going to turn to splinters and dust quickly.
That yellow speed (called yellow submarine) boat was under water for 30 years in lake powell and Fab Rats recovered it and it still runs after 30 years in water. Someone should try it with the speed boat in this video.
I just seen their video yesterday and the guy broke the rear-end on his Toyota Tacoma while hauling the boat out of the desert.
Great video thanks!
Glad you liked it thanks for watching!
sometimes old engine blocks are used to hold Bouie in place and you could hook your rope to the bouie and hold your boat in place
Bouy
Every youtuber in the world should go to lake mead and make the same exact video over and over and over.
Those tires chained together are artificial reefs for fish...
Thank you Randy for the info! I did not consider that, but I can guarantee no fish are living in them anymore 😉 Seeing how these tires were exposed before the current drought and this harbor hasn't been functional for years, I can only call it what it is at this point... trash.
Fist video I've watched of this and you made everything very interesting, thanks
Awesome, thank you for watching!
Great job 👏🏽
Thank you 🙏
Thank you for watching and commenting Hector!✌
Thanks for the update!
The tyres are used for anchor pionts for boats and jetties
Thank you very much for this video.
Of course thank you for the support! 👍
Look at how fast those desert scrub brush start reclaiming the land
Thank you for sharing ! The area were the Cadillac boat and the sky would make a beautiful pic to hang up on wall
I think so too! I plan to print one out, maybe frame it with some old driftwood. That boat is becoming infamous! Thank you for watching!
@@mojo.adventures ,please share once you put it in that frame
Hi. Are they going to clean out all the debris and boats. Or just leave it a mess. Oh Can you show use you Jeep. (TJ /LJ)
They have done some smaller scale cleanup this week near the beaches area, I can attest to that at least. It may just be because multiple remains were found and investigated there.
In general I don't think they care much to clean up the lake or have the funding to do so properly it's been neglected so long.
We will indeed be adding vehicle walkarounds including "Walter" my '06 LJ in the future. They will go under our "Vehicles/Gear" category so stay tuned. Thanks for watching!
When you go back to Gilligan's Island, try to use gravity to relaunch if it looks undamaged
Oh I've had ideas... if only the NPS saw my enthusiasm for some of these boats 😂
arround the 8 min mark that boat reminds me of Fab Rats channel they recoverd a boat like that from lake powell
i believe 30yrs under water, they even got the engine in it running again
Those truck tires were all chained together - sot for some reason there was the making of 2 buoy spots to anchor up there. Maybe a double anchorage for a house boat location.
Great presentation and narration
Thank you kindly!
The Cowboy music, the drought ridden landscape.
Finally topped off by a wonderful matching voice
After watching this I wanted, for some reason, listen Dire straits: Water of love
Can you feel the southwest vibes from there? 🤠🌵 Whenever out exploring the desert I can confirm this music is quietly playing on the breeze... I hope I captured it well! Thank you for watching and the kind words ✌
@@vellu175 Or Once Upon a time in the west
the last glass of water priceless
You do really great work. Photography is exceptionally beautiful. Thanks for all your efforts.
Thank you for the support appreciate that, I take a lot of photos too! 👍 Everything is eerie in an odd and beautiful way out there
Wow, thanks for taking us along.
Thank you for coming along! 👍
That one speed boat That had the wonder bread markings that had the tanks on either side of the engine you can see they almost imploded from the water pressure it must’ve been pretty deep at one time
I did notice the tanks were crushed, at first I thought from some kind of impact but like you said the water pressure makes a lot more sense now
Sad they found 4 bodies there. No telling what you may find. Thanks for the update
Thank you for watching and commenting! Our "Lake Mead Secrets" episodes have been covering the bodies, but oddly enough after the first couple were found the water level started rising and nothing else has been discovered.
The lake's going to fill backup again I'm sure of it right everybody right😁😁😁🥰
Got to love that people can just leave their junk and the state doesn't seem to care about cleaning these up either. But I guess they just assume that the water will come back up and cover everything up again eventually.
I guess the park service doesn't care about cleaning up all the garbage and sunk boats.
All those jet boats. So sick. People would love to get their hands on some of those jet pumps for parts or to rebuild.
Is bay #2 in the Government Wash area? I've seen other videos that mention that upright boat (#6), but no specifics. Was it a tough hike?
Yep you guessed it, it's down Government Wash. On satellite view you can see it sticking out of water still. Not a tough hike at all since you can off road down several different routes to pretty get close if you have a capable vehicle. The vegetation is the only thing that will make it hard to get close now. I have never seen it green like that down there before!
Dude, that OFFENHAUSER engine you found in that one boat , well it's a world class racing engine. You may wanna try and get it out.
I'm learning a whole lot about boats in the comment section!
Sadly, Lake Mead is becoming metal detectors paradise!
Thanks for the video the water is going down not a great time.
Most of the carb on that offnhuser intake was missing.
11:44. AMC engine. 360 or 401. Boat is mid 70s to early 80s vintage.
Electrolysis underwater ate the zinc carburetor.
Yikes I didn't consider that, a zinc carburetor! Poor lake eats everything it seems 🤔
Its sad that so many boats are left. I you have boat insurance, they pay to have the boat retrieved and all hazardous waste removed from water...least in Michigan. Thanks for video!
You must have either really expensive insurance and/or really shallow lakes in Michigan.
Sad. I lived in Vegas for over 20 years when the lake was still full and the carp were so thick, you could walk on em! To see it slowly go down, year after year, was so depressing, I moved away in 2004.
I remember the rumours of Mafia hits landing at the bottom of the lake in barrels and, even boaters and good swimmers drowning in the ice cold water. One girl I remember because of her unusual name; Venus. I don't know if they ever recovered her. Sad.
I arrived shortly after you left and even I remember the same, the water being so much fuller. The lake also seemed to have much more "life" in general... between the flora and fauna, and the business from boaters at all the marinas on the weekend. I can't imagine the heyday's in the late 80's early 90's. Just gloomy down there now after so many years of neglect.
People used to dump tires like those chained together to form kind of a fish habitat or hideout, and go back later and fish for them. The bigger the tire the bigger the fish!
I would imagine the tires are placed in the lake upon building it for fish beds and so the fish can hide
The mud is full of water. As it dries out, the mud shrinks
The dirt contracts as the water is removed.
So you get the cracks and eventually the earth dries completely up and the dirt gets dusty and blows and will fill in the cracks
It also collapses in on itself and sinks down.
Really amazing how much water is removed from the basin.
But still 20 years of water in there
I am realizing it is a natural process since the pattern is repeating all around the lake, but it is still fascinating to see and walk on. I am guessing once the cracks all crumble again and settle, it is going to be a giant field of fine silt, or what we call "poof dirt"
NICE NARRATIVE, THANX
Ah, its a water sampling tower :) brilliant :D amazing video, its scary to think you could almost walk out to intake 1 now
There you go! Yep it's right behind the Water Treatment Plant! I stay away from the exposed intake, gives me the heebee geebies😂 There is something about this lake it's got a mind of it's own. Thanks again for watching and subscribing friend!
@@mojo.adventures i cant say i blame you, that's a big old pipe, our local reservoir "ladybower reservoir" gives me the same heebee geebies, especially at full flood when waters thundering down the plugholes, they havent even got grilles on them like that intake, and there smooth, nothing to grab hold of, if your in ladybower lake and get too close to them, your getting sucked straight down rhe mouth of the intake, down a 100 foot drop, and blown through a 150 foot long by about 8 foot diameter pipe 😂
That intake number 1 looks to be more out of the water now than it did in a video i saw on that mexican fishermans channel a week ago, by a lot, like about 4 feet
I dont think its gonna be ling before intake 2 is showing 🤦♂️
I wonder how long it took for these lakes to fill when they were created? Sad the whole area is forever changed.
Lake Mead began filling in late 1934 and the average daily surface elevations are measured from 1 February 1935. When elevation data began to be collected.
The reservoir did not reach elevation 1,045 feet above mean-sea-level (msl), the elevation of the upper outlet works, until 1 May 1937.
The reservoir filled to an elevation of greater than 1,200 feet (normal maximum) above msl, by mid-1941. So in total the reservoir took about 7 years to fill.
Resource:
-Robert Shephard on Quora M.S. in Engineering & Management
I checked the other day and found that the Colorado river isn’t flowing much less than normal. It looks like the lakes are getting so low because all of the desert cities are way to big for the lakes to supply them with water.
@@CatalinaFOIA Good info there thank you for sharing! I have a video clip or photo somewhere of the last resident in St. Thomas (flooded under Lake Mead) watching the rising waters engulf the doorstep of their home. That would have been a site to see...
Went there with my buddy from school in the 80's almost lost the jet/ski boat to high winds
Those tires were left there by the fish and game commission for habitat for small fish.
Is there any effort to clean up the lake bottom? Some of the tires may be by design to create fish habitats.
I have seen small cleanup efforts around the swim beach areas, more focused on litter like bottles, trash, etc... definitely nothing large scale for the bigger waste like boats, marina materials, tires etc. Was there last week and all the boats are in the same places!
I last went to Vegas about 10 years ago and done the trip to the Hoover Dam and grand canyon etc.....the water level was very low then so its shocking to see it now.......I'm surprised there arnt people cleaning up the debris left when the water recedes. I know for a fact if this was the UK there would be absolutely not a scrap of metel left anywhere.
The HIN (hull ID No) is almost always on the starboard transom exterior which is the best way to ID the boats...Sad out there man
Is the park service doing anything to clean up the boats, engines and other garbage?
They aren't doing a "dam" thing. Won't even make it easy for individuals like me to help out set up a volunteer effort. They are real good at collecting the entrance fee however
Nice work those tires have DOT NUMBERS on them. The last three month and year. This will tell you and us how long they may have been down there😅. Of course add a few years
You're right good point didn't think of that! Next time I'm Going to check the date codes if I can find any 👍
Seems like a good time to do some dry dredging, in there’s sufficient odds that the drought will end.
The tires were chained together. They put those tires there for small fish habitat. Gives them a hiding place from the big fish.
Great video music is perfect. This is scary that much water is gone. What about our food growing near California. Humans are really in trouble. But humans think they can change the natural water ways and Mother Nature shows who boss for fact. Thank you this video is a sure wake up call.
Good point! It always seems the solution is more man-made disasters, more diversions, more meddling with nature, and of course... more development in arid regions without infrastructure that will never be slowed or halted. Surely the humans who surveyed the river back in the 1920's thought the had it right too...
The water is down about 187 feet from the high so that's a huge difference.