Ew.
I don’t know why these things started appearing in my Facebook feed – to my knowledge, I’ve never liked or followed any of them – but there are a bunch of guys who dive on wrecked cars for fun. They travel around the States visiting lakes and rivers looking for submerged cars.
Some of them have really neat toys like drones and sonar. Specially adapted fish finders, I guess. They found, like, twenty in one spot.
The underwater footage of cars covered in barnacles and ick is especially creepy. Well, not as creepy as winching muddy cars out of the drink. Last scene in Psycho creepy. Mostly, they’re just stolen cars, but sometimes there’s a body inside (they blur anything awful). Sometimes the police seem grateful for the help, sometimes…not so much.
I can’t quite stop watching these things. When I was small, we had a houseboat on the Tennessee River that we spent a lot of time on. It was big enough to stay overnight and cook and everything. When I was nine, it sank and I never got over the idea of a place so comfortable and familiar under 30 feet of murky water. Brrrrr.
The channels are Wrecked and Recovered, Exploring with Nug (I think these two channels are related) and Adventures with Purpose.
Posted: July 15th, 2026 under adventure.
Comments: 6
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Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 15, 2026, 7:06 pm
Chaos divers is another and I think all the channels are related.
Bit of warning: they can be time wasters. You slog all the way through a 20 minute video only to find it’s Part 1 and nothing particularly interesting happened.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: July 16, 2026, 2:28 am
That houseboat was sunk either by Cary Grant or Gregory Peck.
They did that stuff, really.
Why would I make that up?
😇
Comment from Some vegetable
Time: July 16, 2026, 3:15 pm
The car was in the lake for just two years
Too soon to rust but too late for tears
She had been placed behind the wheel
A fraud that even now it seems unreal
The claim: she drove herself into the lake
By error or GPS mistake
But if one sifts down through the mud
Stained reddish brown by her blood
She’d have had to shift manually
A skill she didn’t have, you see
Comment from Anonymous
Time: July 16, 2026, 3:37 pm
The car was submerged in the lake for just two years. It was too soon for rust to set in, but it was too late for tears. She had been placed behind the wheel, a fraud that even now seems unreal. The claim was that she had driven herself into the lake by error or GPS mistake. However, if one digs through the mud, stained reddish brown by her blood, they would have discovered that she had had to shift manually, a skill she clearly lacked.
To completely cinch the deal
Her skeleton still wore four-inch heels
But the Sheriff very casually said,
“Two years submerged is completely dead”
Maybe because the license plate revealed the owner
To be respectable son of a political donor.
So the car had been stolen obviously
“Move on Folks; nothing here to see…”
Comment from Anonymous
Time: July 16, 2026, 3:44 pm
Oh Edit Function, why hast thou forsaken me?
In the second post, I tried allowing ChatGTP to edit my first draft. That A.I. ain’t got no soul. I wanted to delete that but nooo all hour mistakes are belong to us now.
Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: July 19, 2026, 5:43 pm
They used to stabilize creek banks with old jusk cars. It didn’t work as well as one might think.
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