There are roughly 2300 people reported missing daily in the United States. If you actually take the time to look up the numbers on missing people you will find the numbers reported are all over the place. For example, just here in the State of Tennessee we have found information that suggests Tennessee has roughly 400 people come up missing per year which boils down to an average of 1 person reported missing every day. In reality that doesn’t add up because Nashville, Tennessee, missing person numbers come in at around 600 to 700 people per year all by itself. Many of these cases are solved but many are not. Do to a lack of man power, evidence or dead ends these cases end up being what is called a cold case and forgotten. In the meantime the families of the missing people are unable to obtain any type of closure. In 2019 a YouTube Creator helping to clean up the environment in his local waters by removing vehicles accidentally found a missing person in one of those vehicles. This mans movement has led to a world wide effort by others and we hope to be one of them. In an effort to do just that we have created Lost And Found SAR to aid the families of the lost obtain closure. Lost And Found SAR is an all Volunteer Weekend Warrior Search And Recovery Team that uses side scan sonar technology to search for people who have gone missing (along with their vehicles). Our team provides this service free of charge for families and law enforcement using an all weather 21’ search vessel equipped with state of the art sonar equipment and an advanced ROV drone. At this point and time we are limited to the local Knoxville, Tennessee, area which consists of the Tennessee, Holston, French Broad and Melton Hill Rivers. Hopefully soon, with the help of others joining us in our effort, we will be able to expand our horizons and add to the geographical capabilities of our intended mission. Due to many of the environments we find these unconfirmed vehicles in (such as surrounded by trees and debris) our tethered ROV is only capable of limited missions. Due to that limitation we are currently in need of Scuba Divers. Preferably a 2 person safety conscious team who are experienced in dark water as well as swift current environments and are willing to volunteer their services to identify and clear the many potential vehicles we have located. Fortunately, in the Greater Knoxville TN area, we haven’t had many recent missing people who have gone missing along with their vehicle, that we are aware of, with the exception of Regina Dawn Robinson which we have spent several days combing the local waters for. When we are not looking for a specific missing person we randomly scan the Tennessee River shore lines paying particular attention to obvious areas where a vehicle could easily enter the water such as boat ramps or roads that run along side of or end at the waters edge. In doing so we have observed all kinds of things on our sonar screens lying on the bottom of the river. Aside from the many potential vehicles (over 50) we have encountered we have also seen boats, barges, ladders, barrels, along with major wreckage we can not define. We have also seen some very unusual geographical formations not to mention some very alien looking anomalies you will just have to see for yourself to believe. We have recently launched our Lost   and   Found   SAR YouTube Channel. Please help us out by Viewing, Commenting, Liking and most of all Subscribing to our channel. It’s free and won’t cost you a thing. In doing so, Lord willing, it will help us raise funds for some of the many expenses we encounter along the way. On our YouTube channel you will see videos of our journeys while we were (and still are) in the process of learning our newly found Mission and at the same time you will be able to ride along with us and see what we have seen and experienced. As you scroll along viewing the sonar images you may come across items we may have missed. If you’re one of those people that can pick out a four leaf clover you might be good at this too. If you do see something please post a description of what you think it is along with the time displayed on the screen in the comments section of that particular video so other people can see it to. Hopefully we may get some answers of what these items may or may not be from people viewing and commenting on them on the channel. For you folks that are interested in how to set up your own vessels with side scan sonar units you can follow along with us on our venture and see how we set up our Garmin chart plotters and see how we use them in real world scenarios. We are by no means experts in this field, we may have some good ideas and methods but then again for all we know we might just be spinning our props in the wrong direction. If you see something we could improve on please don’t be shy and let us know. Our YouTube Channel will also contain videos of our experiences outfitting our vessel as well as unfiltered reviews of our equipment. Basically a behind the scenes look of all the items involved in making everything happen to be able to provide this service. Our hope is that by adding this type of content to our channel it will help us gain more views thus generating more funds to help us in our mission. Our unfiltered equipment reviews will help people that are on the same course make decisions on their equipment purchases. If your a Law enforcement or a Search and Rescue agency feel free to call on us to provide you with an up close and personnel real time hands on experience with our equipment.
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