AHH!!! Lake Mead is DRY AS A BONE! (Time to Explore)

Lake Mead is DRY AS A BONE! (Let's Explore). Walking on dry lake bed that used to be 175 feet underwater (too deep to scuba dive) is an eerily beautiful feeling. We found some interesting things today. Thanks to Joyce for sending the picture from 1983! Watch out for Day 2, it's even crazier once we got on the boat to explore more shores!

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[ManPlusRiver]

Day 2 is being edited now and will be out a week from today! Let's see if we can break my LIKE record in 1 week, which is 8K likes. See you on DAY 2! (IT GETS PRETTY CRAZY)

[iridescentchick]

Tip: When in the desert, don’t stick your fingers in a crack between rocks. Never know what might be living there (scorpion, rattlesnake, etc.) Thanks for the adventure!!

[bertkears]

That gold rock you found might actually be biotite mica. The mica is very flakey and can be found in gold colors. Pyrite would be more crystalline, it would look cubic, like little squares.

[Crazymonkey]

As someone who's lived in Las Vegas for 24 years, it's crazy to see the lake change so much. Its dried so much that the old sunken Mormon settlement is visible now and a couple of bodies have been found.

[-bitato]

It's refreshing to see a channel of this genre that's genuine

[duhnay]

I love when you talk with locals in the area you're searching. They always have such interesting things to add to the history of the area. This person you met was especially wonderful 😊 the picture was cool

[bidouchonsan]

i'm so sad to see that lake empty. i was there in 1992 for holidays, and it was not so low. not enough rain and huma activities have ruined nature. greatings from a french subscriber

[rj]

Dallas, this was a one of my most favorite adventures. Thanks for bringing me along. Can't wait for the next adventure. The video turned out amazing!!

[RinkyRoo]

The coke bottle is late 70s 78 79, I used to find the no return one white ones as a kid and looked it up in a book , the first one I found was deep in scrub oak and took me a long time to get ....6th graders do strange things

[pamedison]

Lived in Vegas in early 70’s, we went to lake mead all the time. Oldest child was the last baby born at the old Boulder City hospital

[jamiwa]

As interesting as this is, it's actually kind of sad just how much trash we leave behind :(

[fl_atv_riders]

That lake going dry has only about 10% to do with drought the other 90% is from rapid growth of the city's it supplies water too.

[etrinko]

As a lifelong Las Vegas resident, thank you so much for properly pronouncing Nevada. Also, gotta come back out to Lake Mead and look for barrel bodies

[DirtyRiverDiver]

ever since i seen that this lake was going down my first thought was i bet you could walk and find some cool treasure, im glad you made this video

[Toddis]

Man if you had a metal detector for that dried lake bed

That woulda been dope

[Porzellanschnitte]

i always appreciate when you pick up trash and dispose of it properly

[Gustav]

Hello, the lake is drying out because the water cycle in the west is being and has been wrecked through land degeneration, and land degeneration happens because we removed the mega herds of millions of bison which kept the land healthy.

The only way we can start to replenish the water resources in the west and other places that are desertifying around the world, is if we start to mimic these herds and provide the services that they used to provide, using the tool of livestock managed in a certain way.

It would be honorable of you to use your popularity to help spread this message and get some serious action going.

[kdaze]

That's so awesome that she sent thet pic to you! I've only been to Lake Mead once, bc I've lived most of my life in PA...so it's really cool to see older pics of the lake!

[cynscity]

All I kept thinking is that you were gonna get got by a scorpion or a rattlesnake when you stuck your hands by that little cave. LOL I left Vegas in 2002 after living there for 14 years and I can't believe how bad the lake is now. Breaks my heart.

[WandaMaril]

I live in Boulder City next to Lake mead it’s crazy to watch the lake disappear. Use to be a beautiful scene as you drove down to lake. We are running out of water.