For our inaugural Creators Issue, we talked with scuba-diving YouTubers who started out hunting treasure — and ended up solving crimes
The car they’re working on this chilly day in Oak Ridge doesn’t contain any remains, but other searches in the area have turned up missing persons. In late 2021, Sides recovered thewaterways in nearby Sparta. The two teenagers had last been seen leaving Foster’s home in 2000 in her 1988 Grand Am. In underwater footage that’s been viewed 5.1 million times, Sides follows a rope to the bottom ofshape of a vehicle looms out of the murky greenness.
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. By that point, AWP had a pretty good track record: In May 2020, members of the channel, then known for environmental cleanup, had unexpectedly stumbled upon the remains of Timothy Robinson. Until AWP pulled his Mazda from the Willamette River during a livestream, Robinson, 56, had been missing since 2008.
In January 2021, AWP invited other divers to join them in Nashville to search for Bill Simmons, 57, who had been missing for six months. That was when Sides learned to dredge out a car. He didn’t find Simmons that day, but the team was successful later in the trip, and Sides was hooked on searching for missing persons. “It just felt like I’d like to have more of a reason behind what I’m doing instead of just entertainment value,” says Sides. “It was like I could help out.
That approach resonates with viewers, too. Once AWP found Robinson, the channel changed. “Viewers started sending in cold cases of their friends or family members that are missing with a vehicle,” Bishop says. Since 2020, AWP claims it has recovered the remains of 20 missing people. When Sides pivoted from treasure hunting to searching for missing persons, he saw his views spike. In mid-2021, he gave up his day job as a mobile wheel repairman and went full-time into YouTube, supplementing his ad revenue with merchandise sales, donations, and paid subscriptions. When he found Foster and Bechtel in late 2021, he says his followers tripled. His audience has changed, too.
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