Lake Mead Is Dropping FAST- Emergency Houseboat Recovery Before It's Too Late

lost all hope and then when everyone started labeling him, you know? You guys showed up and hopefully we can get it unstuck, we'd like to screw it in right here, okay, so we've got a couple spots to pull out on both sides, we'll seal them and caulk them. any way you can, if you can take them off if you want or leave them on, it will be waterproof. It is now 15 yards from the water, so it will be a difficult task. We were here two days ago and the water was probably two feet higher. It's basically We're just going to sit there like oh yeah, yeah, we hardly talk like that, perfect, yeah, we'll get you out of here.

What's happening? Let's get another one. How long have you been here? Three weeks. So our plan at the beginning is us. I'm going to try to drag you and see if the winch can pull you back. How long have you been at the

lake

? Approximately three months. Three months. Yes, not much. What do you do for a living? I was a carpenter. Yes, I retired. Now the

recovery

company told you 20 thousand dollars and it was that putting it back in the water was basically getting rid of it, not just getting it back in the water in the morning.

I started, I called him on a Thursday. Yeah, about four thousand dollars to tow it out of here, yeah, what was coming next Tuesday, the water went down a lot more, so frozen I saw the 20 thousand dollars, yeah, it was a total salvage, yeah, okay, man, Well, let's get to work on it, so if we can get this thing to slide and then we'll take it right out of the water. You've been doing a little work here pumping this up trying to wash it off, which will definitely help a little. Friends bought a bunch of water pumps.

I did a lot of dredging when I did it, but the water was going down

fast

er than I could dredge, so I tried, but I lost the battle, so it's over. I can't believe there are already good people in the world because they screwed me. many times but now it's all good it's great now that they're here it's been a tough test I mean anything and everything that could go wrong did everything it seems like it's been a journey it's been around it would be great if we could make it happen . that way, but that's all kind of a shallow, dirty bay, whereas there's deep water there, so I think we're going to rely on the winch to haul as much as possible. 6 30 the sun sets, I think we are in The water by the time midnight comes there is a piece of wood with holes in it, I mean the saw on the smoothness will go down like 10 or 15 feet, which means there are longer holes on both sides because the long poles will be irrelevant, come on, friend. one looks very confident oh he backed off, friend, you can do it, don't be afraid, you conquered mountains before, what is this?

That's enough for the wood, come on, he hasn't grabbed it yet, I think he's like the one who's like what. What are you thinking? Hey, come on, come on, why are you giving me sunlight? That's this, you'll give it to him and you give me this, yeah, I'm still doing it, definitely, grabbing, yeah, keep running, I like those new anchor points, I love them there, you. Come on, you can bring out some water skiers. I had a big boat like that and it weighed like it wasn't that big, but it was fiberglass. I think it weighed, I want to say 25,000 pounds, so each little piece is probably 35 to 40 thousand.

I'm just assuming it's pure gas. Bob Barker said: "Do me a favor and turn on the ignition switch, not the top one but the one just below it on the front, not the bottom one which is already on. I'm just trying, yes it works." I bet you I bet you Craig has a flag on his boat. I'm going to go find a little flag for the top. Okay, let's find it awesome. I really care about your well-being. It's good to see it. You already know. Oh, absolutely restoring. your faith in humanity so I'll never take anything in return from anyone yeah well karma shows up yeah I think it's hit big here big time there's a lot of people that want to support you so that's awesome , yes, amazing, yes, don't you have any miniature flags?

Do you have any small American flags? No no. He is trying to find a flag on top of his castle. Oh, he's determined to find something. I expect great things from this delay. of the US coke cup. I'm going to go to the bathroom right here, real quick. Hey, no, cameras are not allowed. The real Craig is here. We're about to put his boat back in the water. I feel very good about it. I think so. Guys, it sounds like you're pretty confident and set this up pretty well so I'm sure it will work and you guys do this all the time so you know it should work.

Yes, no, yes, oh. It could be if we put enough vegetable shortening under the boat and slide it real good it's like running on the sand yeah yeah that's a word it's crazy we'll get it oh yeah on the beach sliding real good on the sand . At this point it's going to fly much better on the wood, it's not sliding, right? I don't think it's in the grand canyon, you're going to see if it moves, it wasn't moving, actually, you'll see the movement two grand lengths. towards the back of the boat running side by side or along long paths, okay so the winch has a lot of force, the problem is that it has so much force that it wants to pull our boat towards the beach instead of pulling the boat out of Craig from the beach, so we have to break the original suction that is happening under there, so we are going to turn around and hope that the tips of our fingers that we hooked on the back of his boat are strong enough to allow us give it a couple of good hits, you know, hard. hits with the yankem rope and since the yankem robes have kinetic energy that will really help us be gentle with the boat and at the same time give it enough pull to be able to move it, let's get that boat. off the beach in one piece and return it to Craig Slip at the marina and he'll be happy or I'll break that boat in half trying to get it out of here and buy from Craig Anubo.

I don't know yet, but by the way, I just have to hope that his mini lumps don't turn into mega lumps. Smiling, worry, just mini lumps. Hey someone, throw me a Gatorade please, oh yeah, look at her, go, oh yeah, excitement. I feel like there isn't much tension. that's not at all not what it is i think it was the wind jason broke the boat okay we have a few more pull points that are sharp they ask you how you are you just have to say you're okay when you're not really okay but you can't enter the chest, we are just throwing stones at each other.

Hey, just a little bit, make sure you know where it is. I think if you hit it from side to side, will it move? a little but it's because you went in that direction so it got it out of the center yeah move it in that direction and head that way I fell and got thrown oh she's moving now buddy this is what we didn't want to have to do but we We're going crazy with her just doing slingshots and uh it's working the boat is moving it's uh super sketchy I'm sure the rangers over there are losing their minds blood very good very good alec do you think bud is happy bo?

I'm hungry all day ready, I think we have too much, we have four solid inches, at least I guess 12. Oh, okay, wait, I'm going the other way, we have to move this thing out. aside, so the best part is that lady is just sitting there watching TV or something sitting on the couch this whole lunch, it rang and I came home, are you a time lapse, you have no time left, five feet? what you've done right, I just wanted to check the hook points and everything. I'm going to continue doing the wig movement pattern which is basically the one that's getting the most by far, like those last few things you're doing, it barely moved at all, but if you do those big pulls, that's the best movement. that we have seen.

I don't think we've heard any creeks at these bait points recently, so maybe we'll try to clear the rest of this beach right here real quick while we're at it. In that, everything, that's the only entertainment we have, man, we've moved to a solid five feet, which is huge because getting to that first five feet is where we break all the suction and I mean at this point we're going to the maximum. cowboy, there is no method to this madness, we literally went until something came up and also threw the stuff off the roof into Narnia.

I saw that I thought Greg flew through the roof. I've never seen a magician run out of energy. I've been like I haven't had wizard juice in like three hours on the boat, we're good, yeah, that's the ticket, we got the best job in the world, man, time like this, it's like this, this whole thing is ridiculous, like I work hard and I like to think and solve complex problems and then when it all comes together it comes to extraction time. I love it, man. It's more than 15 hours of planning, eight hours of driving and setting up for the time to put it back in the water.

Is pure. happiness, oh yeah, ready, important from the inside, sacred cow may not seem like it, those are violent, here we go, oh, that was a, that was, where was your heart in that one? more she's out craig what are you thinking oh that's awesome man this might be the only good job jim good job jim wow thanks yeah to all of you guys we sure are thanks the old craig express is floating baby oh man, That's gratifying, let me tell you right now, the relief we feel is probably nothing compared to the reef, the feeling of that old crater right now.

Whoa, someone get on that boat. We just did it in a brute beast way, probably 12 13 just hard, hard, full speed runs and her. it floats, we drug it probably about 150 feet of beach and now it's in the water baby, oh you said it'll run, I think what's on, I'm so excited, me too, they plugged it in a hot shower, that was it. Good timing, good times, but hey, I did it, good job, so obviously you guys saw what happened. We came and tried the right way to block and drag him, which normally would work, but it was just a wrestling match and forty thousand. fifty thousand pound

houseboat

versus our twenty thousand pound boat and we were in the water, I mean, it wasn't a fight we were going to win without a lot more anchors, so the winch was doing exactly what it was supposed to do , but in the end I just took my boat right to shore so basically we had one last option and that was to just go crazy and that's exactly what we did with the revenue ropes right there, yeah well we trusted the revenue ropes income obviously we use them for all kinds of different things here we are like showing everyone that anchor massages can do almost anything yeah I mean we abuse the income ropes a lot you guys have seen it time and time again and today was no different, the only thing that was really scary.

For me, we had a section of cable there with the revenue ropes. I would never have worried about the path of income that the brain maintains and attacking me again today was a little stressful because with that big section of cable and I was going. You know, go full speed, full throttle to a dead stop and I think we did 12 or 13 really hard ones and you can see the trail of tears right here. We pulled, we pulled that boat at least 200 feet of dead weight across the beach. a suction cup hole, yeah, that's the fact that those are steel p

late

s that we built they didn't destroy the boat and they didn't come out very proud of that, so my friend José, I told you when we got on the plane. when that man comes, it means business and uh, and he never ever lets us down when it comes to just making sure everything's okay, it's that today you earned your teardrop tattoo, oh, can we all get one right, everyone Let's get one, yeah, do it?

We earned it, anyway guys, I hope you enjoyed the video. Craig is safe and sound, in fact he is floating. We don't unhook him, so he's just floating in the abyss there, but we're going to go there to connect. drag it back to the marina, put it on a slip and then we'll go back to the other marina, which is about a 20 minute boat ride away, load the boat and get some of these guys to sleep for a little bit and get some of these guys in. a plane and we have sin city in the open air, don't forget to visit their canal, these are the guys that made this happen, they have been here, they are fishermen, right, they are bass fishermen, but they also love their

lake

. hometown and they come out and they've been informing and updating people on what's going on and his videos gained a lot of traction and obviously Craig's, I think he struck a chord with a lot of you people who care. .

I have never received so many emails in my entire life about a specific topic. I'm telling you guys emailed me every 30 seconds from the time the video of him aired, my phone is probably still off the hook so I guess not. Only Craig is going to be happy, but we're all happy, but all of you viewers know that Craig is safe and sound and it's all thanks to these guys that are here, so guys.