Sides went on his first missing-persons search in January 2021, with a group of divers from the YouTube channel Adventures With Purpose, based in Bend, Oregon. I picked it up, not exactly knowing what I had, and dumped all the remains on myself.
“There was one urn that had a hole in the bottom of it. He got scuba-certified and made the transition to water, where he started recovering everything from 19th-century dentures to antique bombs and urns. He’d roam through parks or explore the ruins of Civil War-era buildings near his home in Acworth, Georgia, finding treasures like old coins, tools, and glass jars. Sides, 42, got his start on YouTube with a metal detector. Populated by gearheads who are drawn to solving puzzles using high-tech tools and machinery (“man toys,” as Sides calls them), the community has found an untapped market: Not only are there thousands of missing-persons cases cataloged on databases like the Charley Project and NamUs, there’s also an audience eager to watch. Rather, Sides and Brown are members of a growing YouTube community that specializes in finding missing cars - and, sometimes, missing persons - underwater. But the pair are not just good Samaritans, dredging leaching metal from a public waterway. They inflate the sides of a 14-foot motorized raft and lay two metal seats across it, wedging a suitcase containing a sonar system into the bottom, and call a local towing company to let it know they’ll need its help again. They measure out rope and tie it to an orange buoy to mark the car. “We’re not going to have a problem with the car, we’re gonna have a problem with the conditions,” Sides quips, eyeing the water. “We should have no issues, it’s not that heavy of a vehicle,” Brown says, holding his camera in selfie mode. He’s here with fellow video creator Adam Brown, who will soon gear up in his scuba suit. It’s a raw February morning in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and YouTuber Jeremy Sides is preparing to extract a Honda CVCC hatchback from Melton Hill Lake.
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