Lake Mead Drought WASTELAND Boat Wreck Easter Egg Hunt, Another Death + Water Level UPDATE AUG 2022

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Lake Mead Drought WASTELAND - Rapidly receding water levels create the biggest Easter Egg hunt in America! In this episode, we venture out onto the dry wasteland of Lake Mead where the ground we search was recently underwater in the last weeks (or even days!) In a place with such rich history... you truly never know just what you will find! Included in the video is an overview of the water level report from the Bureau of Reclamation as of August 1st, 2022. We will compare the usage from last month as we explore the newly formed shorelines of Lake Mead in search of it's many abandon watercraft.
NEW Watch BOAT WRECK HUNT Part 2 where we revisit these boats and check in on their condition: • BOAT WRECK HUNT 2 Lake... 👀
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UPDATE
Paging fellow KZfaq Recovery crews! ‪@MattsOffRoadRecovery‬ ‪@HeavyDSparks‬ ‪@snorrsouthernnevadaoffroad8506‬ how about we all go pull some of these boats out, especially the HIGGINS?! There is a great Veterans Home right up the hill in Boulder City where the Higgins would look awesome sitting out front all restored. Some of the other hulls can be salvaged, use them to raise money for charity. The government doesn't ever have the funding and is too busy involved in foreign affairs to take care of our own lands, so let's do it ourselves! #heavydsparks #mattsoffroadecovery #morr #snorr #lakemead #cleanup #offroad #recoverycrew #lakemeadcleanup
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:26 Wasteland
1:17 Water Supply Report 8-1-2022
1:55 Dry Harbor
2:37 Shoreline
3:08 Water Sampling Tower
3:34 BOAT WRECK #1
5:21 Trash Bay
5:55 Kayaker Drowns
7:01 BOAT WRECK #2
8:41 Motors
9:41 Cracked Earth
10:04 BOAT WRECK #3
12:10 Tires Tires Tires
13:07 Dry Bay #1
13:45 BOAT WRECK #4 + #5
14:16 Gilligan’s Island
14:52 Dry Bay #2
15:40 BOAT WRECK #6
16:47 Bay Shoreline
17:19 Wasteland
17:50 BOAT WRECK #7
18:15 Cadillac Ranch
18:50 Flood Simulator
19:20 Quick”Mud”
19:47 Hemenway Harbor (Lake Mead Marina)
20:27 Higgins Boat (BOAT WRECK #8)
21:44 Outro
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Intro/Outro Courtesy of Chris Haugen
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@ChrisTesch87 2 жыл бұрын

Offenhauser or Offy. That's a really nice racing engine in that boat.. well, WAS nice

@brinkleyfireman 2 жыл бұрын

The tires, being chained together, more than likely put there as fish habitat, a common practice.

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@SomeRandomdude857 2 жыл бұрын

That’s exactly what that is!

@Blueknight1960 2 жыл бұрын

@@mojo.adventures Even if the water level never gets back, they'll never remove them.

@jimlepeu577 Жыл бұрын

Voice of doom who only likes to make things sound worse. Not for me.

@redfire27 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@ScottDLR Жыл бұрын

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.

@newhampshirelifestyle4233 Жыл бұрын

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?

@duanelinstrom4292 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine that it rains and snows a lot in the coming winter and this lake fills up again. That would be wonderful.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

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.

@danitabugher724 Жыл бұрын

Rains and snows,in Vegas,lol

@duanelinstrom4292 Жыл бұрын

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. 😎

@terihill2972 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@ralphmckay6380 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@salparadise1220 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aMmqerqT2sDeXWg.html and actually they would be right at home there too, I might have to reach out to the owner

@KMCA779 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@dakotaautosales9673 2 жыл бұрын

@@KMCA779 Whether it comes back or not you are absolutely right get that crap out of there💯👍✌️

@tunnelportterror 2 жыл бұрын

Make a pile, burn them

@rainydaze19 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@steves7458 Жыл бұрын

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.

@starman9458 Жыл бұрын

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.

@terrim7799 2 жыл бұрын

LOVE THIS - thanks for taking the time to share with us!!

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching hope you enjoyed it!😎

@trxtech3010 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping that would be a side effect of the comments section someone can explain what was going on here 😂

@trxtech3010 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@79tazman Жыл бұрын

You need to check out the Fab Rats and the boat they found in Lake Powell kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gteVpsp9s7vJZIU.html

@crashland5711 Жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a6hdmtxe1d3Wn4k.html

@warrenmichael918 Жыл бұрын

Fabrats just returned a boat they found after 30 years underwater to the old owners, amazing sinking story too...

@jimschnurr3512 2 жыл бұрын

The tires were put down most likely for artificial reefs for fish to inhabit. That is why they were chained together.

@bradhartis1929 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I said the same thing.

@maddmaxxatlarge 8 ай бұрын

12:10 The "chained tires" are called "bumpers" and are secured to piers to cushion the impact when a vessel's hull makes contact.

@Cybersawz 2 жыл бұрын

Nicely filmed, and narrated. Almost professional.😎Felt like I was actually there. Subscribed!

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the support and kind words! ✌

@jathatcher 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. I get Fallout New Vegas vibes of your walking the wasteland.

@dirkdiggler1242 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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

@maddrummer910 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. I love seeing what the lake reveals every month

@jmartin9785 2 жыл бұрын

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! 🌈

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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~✌️

@madebydoug 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing thanks for sharing

@UserUser14880 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video. I feel as if i went on this adventure aswell. And now i have stories to tell lol

@richardbowles6611 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the update!

@Matty12787 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@cb750k1974 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed the video, very interesting. Thank you.

@timford3599 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@timford3599 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 🤔.

@richardlondon9801 Жыл бұрын

I love your channel that I stumbled upon. Very fascinating images and narration. Thank you for doing this!

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Great to hear! 👍We're just starting up the channel and appreciate you stopping by to leave a comment

@maxxcherry6955 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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...

@sue_downing555 2 жыл бұрын

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

@rjay7019 2 жыл бұрын

It would be nice to see a lot of that salvaged. And the trash collected 😢

@jakeporter8476 2 жыл бұрын

That's not how liberals work, they just destroy

@Blueknight1960 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@harrykirkpatrick7351 2 жыл бұрын

I would love to salvage all of them

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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 😎

@YoutubeShareHolder 2 жыл бұрын

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

@thomasshirley5046 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video brother. I watched the entire video from beginning to end. You narrated excellent 👍 thank you

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and commenting, appreciate that!✌

@granth.9532 2 жыл бұрын

I have watched many lake mead videos and yours was the most impressive

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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!✌

@rosalindafaye5668 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the awesome content! 😊 I enjoyed your “Easter egg hunt” 😊

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! 😎 Thank you for leaving a comment ✌️🌵

@bodhimartina6985 Жыл бұрын

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,

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qph0jKafqbTMZKM.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)

@skalagrim99 2 жыл бұрын

The big tires are structure for fish to live in.

@RonFProspecting Жыл бұрын

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visit and comment, happy hounding partner!

@sheilaburger2138 2 жыл бұрын

Great opportunity to clean up and discard all of the boats and miscellaneous debris. I’d like to see a video of that.

@DaneBrammage 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks for taking us along.

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for coming along! 👍

@FetchTheSled 2 жыл бұрын

You do really great work. Photography is exceptionally beautiful. Thanks for all your efforts.

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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

@joemotes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for this video.

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Of course thank you for the support! 👍

@hectorgallardo1691 2 жыл бұрын

Great job 👏🏽 Thank you 🙏

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and commenting Hector!✌

@freebird7057 2 жыл бұрын

Fist video I've watched of this and you made everything very interesting, thanks

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you for watching!

@ronald5629 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@ronald5629 2 жыл бұрын

@@mojo.adventures and not wanting to come and get it because of the fine LOL

@marvindebot3264 Жыл бұрын

Oh heck yes, there are some serious dollars just in that one part if it's still OK.

@katerinathemessenger1024 2 жыл бұрын

Great video thanks!

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it thanks for watching!

@russellrattys6581 2 жыл бұрын

Ah, its a water sampling tower :) brilliant :D amazing video, its scary to think you could almost walk out to intake 1 now

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@russellrattys6581 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 🤦‍♂️

@marvindebot3264 Жыл бұрын

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.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

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 😂

@sausagefingers2885 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this with us! Oil pans were removed to clean the engine blocks before they begin their new and final career.

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking out the video! Aha that makes sense now... so most of those missing the pan were probly intentionally used as anchors, some did have chains noosed around attached to them. At Lake Mead though, you never know what they might have been used to weigh down...🤫

@timford3599 2 жыл бұрын

@@mojo.adventures That is a really grim thought considering the amount of human remains that have been found lately. And it's no big secret that the early years of Las Vegas' casino gambling culture was originally run by the mob out of Kansas City and Chicago. Those fellas played rough and they played for keeps. So Lake Mead was a convenient solution for the "Business." Gives a whole new meaning to the saying; "What happens in Vegas, STAYS in Vegas!"

@BeardMan01 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@BeardMan01 2 жыл бұрын

@@mojo.adventures Let us know in a few years how well the fishing holes work!

@johnlord8337 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@onehot57 Жыл бұрын

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.

@ralphpetersen957 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video the water is going down not a great time.

@clydedenham7830 2 жыл бұрын

Great presentation and narration

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly!

@cathyslaton9998 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing ! The area were the Cadillac boat and the sky would make a beautiful pic to hang up on wall

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

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!

@cathyslaton9998 Жыл бұрын

@@mojo.adventures ,please share once you put it in that frame

@randymorris8740 2 жыл бұрын

Those tires chained together are artificial reefs for fish...

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ValMartinIreland 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@stevendaniel8126 Жыл бұрын

This is a golden moment for Arizona and Nevada to come together and clean up this junkyard.........

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

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

@platinumNL Жыл бұрын

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

@MeaHeaR 2 жыл бұрын

The Cowboy music, the drought ridden landscape. Finally topped off by a wonderful matching voice

@vellu175 2 жыл бұрын

After watching this I wanted, for some reason, listen Dire straits: Water of love

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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 ✌

@MeaHeaR 2 жыл бұрын

@@vellu175 Or Once Upon a time in the west

@fredflintstoner596 2 жыл бұрын

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?"

@ronald5629 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@falconron4217 Жыл бұрын

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

@anthonybaransky137 Жыл бұрын

Bouy

@matthewmilam286 Жыл бұрын

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

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

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

@geraldmiller5232 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@sausagefingers2885 2 жыл бұрын

That boat near the sampling tower, engine is a Mercruiser 4.3 v6

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you for the info! I've learned a whole lot about boats and motors since this video!

@launchpad6484 2 жыл бұрын

the last glass of water priceless

@kingtut8381 2 жыл бұрын

NICE NARRATIVE, THANX

@atoenail1313 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@Milkmans_Son Жыл бұрын

You must have either really expensive insurance and/or really shallow lakes in Michigan.

@maddmaxxatlarge 8 ай бұрын

12:10 The "chained tires" are called "bumpers" and are secured to piers to cushion the impact when a vessel's hull makes contact.

@mojo.adventures 7 ай бұрын

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!

@Silvertoburn 2 жыл бұрын

Good times right there!

@cgschow1971 2 жыл бұрын

11:44. AMC engine. 360 or 401. Boat is mid 70s to early 80s vintage. Electrolysis underwater ate the zinc carburetor.

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Yikes I didn't consider that, a zinc carburetor! Poor lake eats everything it seems 🤔

@grandpajoe9851 Жыл бұрын

That Offenhauser engine is top of the line high performance

@Clearanceman2 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@brianmerz6070 2 жыл бұрын

You have a gift for photography.

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you appreciate that!

@janstrobach8623 2 жыл бұрын

I was camping there that we can back in 2013The wind started coming up I had 125' cuddy cabin Chris craft I saw all the diplo's going out there I knew 6 we're going to sink

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Wow crazy stuff... I know the feeling, I watch kayakers and jetski's go out on Mead with clouds overhead and wind coming in they have no idea what they are getting into

@johnlord8337 2 жыл бұрын

Look at how fast those desert scrub brush start reclaiming the land

@ocsrc 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

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"

@ezkl9424 Жыл бұрын

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.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

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.

@musicktx 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@gloriabrown8669 2 жыл бұрын

Little blue and white fun boat is a jet boat. Fast fun!

@timlabell Жыл бұрын

The lake's going to fill backup again I'm sure of it right everybody right😁😁😁🥰

@insaneseafarer Жыл бұрын

Fun video to watch. I haven't figured out how to do all of the trick editing yet with fonts and screen fills.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking it out!👍 The editing is easy just time consuming doing all that layering, takes forever. All done with the filters in Shotcut, if you use that or need any tips feel free to msg!

@insaneseafarer Жыл бұрын

@@mojo.adventures Thanks MOJO. I downloaded shotcut and I'll play around with it. I'll bug you for some tips later on.

@janaburritt6939 2 жыл бұрын

Sad they found 4 bodies there. No telling what you may find. Thanks for the update

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

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.

@chadjohnson2853 Жыл бұрын

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

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

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 👍

@matthewcurdo2836 2 жыл бұрын

Went there with my buddy from school in the 80's almost lost the jet/ski boat to high winds

@68AMXLS 2 жыл бұрын

That boat around the 11:00 to 12:00 mark has a AMC v8 probably a 401 the chrome valve covers were factory options on earlier 390 343 etc good video

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Good info thank you! I've learned a lot about boats from the comments already. Consensus definitely seems to be that was an AMC V8 in a boat but factory chrome valve cover are even cooler

@Milkmans_Son Жыл бұрын

@@mojo.adventures I've scrolled down quite a ways and haven't seen anyone mention that all boats made/sold in the US after 1972 have hull identification numbers, or HIN's. Basically VIN's for boats. They are 12 alphanumeric characters long located on the right side of the transom somewhere above the waterline (usually molded right into the hull). The first three letters are unique id codes assigned to each manufacturer by the coast guard.

@kdeuler 2 жыл бұрын

Seems like a good time to do some dry dredging, in there’s sufficient odds that the drought will end.

@3hangnail 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

I'm learning a whole lot about boats in the comment section!

@grahammedlock3094 2 жыл бұрын

All those jet boats. So sick. People would love to get their hands on some of those jet pumps for parts or to rebuild.

@dawnr9158 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure I've seen those 2 boats yet on "Gilligan's Island". Great find! Man + River showed what looked like the wreckage of a yacht. I'm surprised I haven't seen that one on more channels. It's really an interesting find. Have you seen that video?

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

Hey there Dawn thank for watching and commenting! I do know which wreck you are talking about, the large wooden boat that someone raised a flag on recently right? We enjoy Man + River channel also 😁 Surprised he only was here a day or two there is so much to explore! That specific yacht I am currently searching for... I am usually pretty good at finding things according to terrain in videos/pictures. Once I locate it, I can determine how difficult it will be to reach by foot. It appears to be up one of the arms of the lake away from the marinas though and some of those areas like Gold Butte are EXTREMELY remote and seldom travalled. If you happen to find any information on it's location feel free to leave a reply 👍

@dawnr9158 2 жыл бұрын

@@mojo.adventures I definitely will!! I would love to see more of it.

@gregj.gotham4402 Жыл бұрын

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.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

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...

@millsy1861 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jeffl6089 2 жыл бұрын

I guess the park service doesn't care about cleaning up all the garbage and sunk boats.

@jessicaoliver9170 2 жыл бұрын

Where are all the scrappers at 😂.

@ericw3229 2 жыл бұрын

Not much to scrap on a fiberglass hull

@davidjacobs800 2 жыл бұрын

Tired are used for fish breeding areas.

@mojo.adventures 2 жыл бұрын

This place has got me turning into one, packing the toolbox next time 😂

@stemtosternms4438 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jamesm3123 Жыл бұрын

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.

@mojo.adventures Жыл бұрын

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