DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) – More than a dozen automobiles have been discovered on the backside of a South Florida lake and investigators are fishing them out in hopes of fixing some previous cases.
Tuesday, a Bentley was pulled out from what appears to be an underwater automobile cemetery.
Secrets cover deep in waterways throughout South Florida and a few had been newly discovered in Broward County on Tuesday.
“Waterways is a pretty common place for vehicles or evidence or anything to go missing, if you’re either trying to hide it or stay hidden,” stated Alexander Beer, chief diver of the Broward Sheriff’s Office dive rescue workforce.
At occasions, cars go lacking, typically with a passenger or driver inside.
Allison McManus began a corporation, Guardians for the Missing, after her nephew went lacking in 2006.
“My family had to hire a helicopter. We hired divers. We did everything we could to locate him,” stated McManus. “After six months, Broward Sherriff’s Office did finally locate him in a canal off U.S. 27.”
Now she helps those that have lacking family members, like Steven Mackrell, who went lacking in 2015.
“We search waterways, canals, ponds, lakes, wherever the area they were last seen or where we think they were headed,” stated McManus. “I have a small boat with side scan sonar. I have a diver that comes out and helps me.”
Her group searched Sailboat Lake in Deerfield Beach and encountered a number of cars. BSO responded to the realm to get the automobiles out.
“Know that there are at least eight vehicles in this lake, behind me. There’s another lake to my left that have a few more vehicles in it,” stated Beer. “Probably the number one challenge is visibility. Normally we’re working in very low to no visibility, meaning that you can see six inches in front of your face on a good day.”
Once the automobile is discovered, a tow cable is hooked up in order to tug it out of the water. Many occasions the car is the lacking piece to fixing cold cases.
“So they can be stolen vehicles that were used in a crime, vehicles that were used as we see in the news all the time on hit-and-runs, trying to hide the evidence,” stated Beer.
For McManus, discovering these cars provides her goal and plenty of different households closure.
“If there are any other families out there that have family members that are missing, 20, 30 years, and once they found my nephew, I felt the need to have to give back,” stated McManus.
Some lakes might be up to 20-25 ft deep, which makes it a really troublesome job for divers, as it does take time to search out automobiles in the low visibility of the murky waters.
According to McManus, they don’t consider they discovered the lacking car of Steven Mackrell who went lacking in Pompano Beach however could discover one thing in one other lake in order to provide the household hope for some closure or solutions.
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