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.
July 15, 2026 — 6:25 pm
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