STRANDED!!! Lake Mead's Water Dropped Too Fast!!! 

Does anyone have contact info for the fella with the beached houseboat?

Craig is my wifes uncle. I have seen some of your videos and was actually going to reach out to you to see if you had any contacts to help him. My father-in-law called tonight to say you did a video with him. Glad you could help, the RU-vid community can really pull together sometimes. You guys are awesome!!

Love how the dude in the beached houseboat has such a good personality that he was more concerned with them catching fish than he was about his entire boat. ❤️

Just seen a update that the guy with the houseboat got pulled out due to exposure from your video. Thats so great to see. Its so crazy/scary to see how that water is dropping so damn fast. Best wishes to everyone down in the south west coming from Wisconsin.

20k to get that guys boat out?! I know there are bigger problems going on but we should get that guy a go fund me started. He’s got a good heart

I just want to say that your son has renewed my faith in the youth of today. He seems so nice and respectful and I love the relationship you two have with each other. You did good Dad 👍🏻.

Just discovered your channel. So far, I've watched your two most recent videos. Great father and son stuff. You do good deeds too. Ain't that the America we remember and love. Thanks, fellas.

You and your son should go for humanity award for helping 👏 people on or around Lake Mead. Great job guys!!!!

You guys did really good again. Your coverage of the stranded houseboat got local news coverage, which got RU-vid attention and they got him out! All he had was himself and no money or wherewithal. You had a platform so people came. It really does take a village. ❤️

You guys are always helping strangers out - you have my respect. We need more people like you in the world.

Those 4 towers aren’t the turbines, they are just the water intake towers for the turbines. There are 17 turbines on the other side of the dam! Love your videos! Super cool that you helped that guy out.

I’ve been flying over Lake Mead since 2004, this lake has been devastated by over use and under filling, it as a fraction of its former self.

You and your son seem like good hearted people. We need more people like that in the world. Much respect to you guys, thanks for all the updates.

I just now read in a news story, that the gentleman's houseboat has been saved and is back in the water. This father/son team, and the man who drove to Lake Mead to get the boat back in the water, are absolutely wonderful people. It gives me a little faith in humanity again!

You guys are awesome! This poor guy is so nice and appreciated everything you guys did for him. Bless you both.

New viewer. Started watching you shortly before this story developed. I love both of you and Heavy D , Dave and all the rest of his gang. The gift you gave me was the look of joy on the boat owners face when his boat was in the water. Thank you all. 🙏🙏🙏

I bet Heavy D is gearing up right now to go save that man! I'm so glad to see he saw this, he was the only one I could think of that would selflessly go help him, and he has the resources to spare. Always doing good deeds 💕

I've never seen any of your content at all, but somehow, RU-vid made sure that I have seen all of your Lake Mead series and I am not unhappy that they did. This is good stuff really. I'm not interested in hunting and fishing personally, but RU-vid wants you guys to blow up! Enjoy the ride!

I’ve been following your channel lately, and lake Mead, I back tracked on dates coming here as this rescue has been mentioned on other channels. Thank you for what you did for him

You guys are great. Give me hope in humanity with your good deeds. Way to go helping the stranded boater. I also found your assessment on Lake Mead is fascinating. I have been watching the news in this lake with great interest. Keep up the great work and Thank You.

Falling asleep casually on the lake while feeling all sorts of relaxed (for anyone that hasn’t experienced it, dozing off while floating on the lake is one of the most relaxing feelings possible) and waking up to be stranded has to be such an awful feeling

This guy has a good attitude while he's going through one of the worst of times. That boat is massive. I hope he can get back in the water or wherever he needs to go. Y'all are so good to people, stay blessed.

Sin City and the community. Thanks for resolving the beached houseboat.

the strong human spirit in the old stranded boat fella pffff topman in tough conditions , heart goes out to the fella xxx

I love the relationship between you and your son. It is obviously full of love and respect. Your informative videos are great. Having done a tour from NZ to the Hoover and following the Lake Mead retreat over the years with water demand and climate change affecting everywhere its a pleasure to watch. regards from New Zealand.

Your son is a testament to how he was raised. Such a well mannered, well spoken, respectful young adult.

Saw the update ! Awesome what you did to save Craig's boat !! Shout Out to all the You Tubers that helped ! Awesome job HeavyDsparks and his crew ! Sin City Outdoors keep it up guys your going to go far !! Keep the updates on Lake Mead coming love your videos! God Bless Guys !

How fantastic this all turned out! Thank God you reached out and Dave Sparks responded. Such great people in this world helping each other out.

I’ve watched a few of your videos since the whole lake level thing. I’m just so amazed by your kindness and willingness to help out fellow humans. We are clearly falling on hard times and you guys are giving me hope for the future of humankind. Thanks for being kind. It means a lot.

Call Heavy D Sparks! His whole crew is awsome!

Thank you again Adrian Sr and Adrian Jr. not only a great video but helping that stranded man get his boat/ home back on the water is totally awesome. ❤

I just found your channel about an hour ago. Your chanel is more than deserving of a subscribe. I just watched the Heavy D recover video of that landed houseboat so i came back to shake your hand (virtually) for helping that fella out like you did.

You completed the quest: Locate the stranded fisherman’s lost paddle boat. You have earned the reward: Special musky lure. +10 to fishing. This video is wild.

Your a great father you have raised a great respectful, helpful, passionate son. Keep fishing love the vids. Good to see father and son fishing and getting along so good.

HD you should tag this video to the rescue vid. Awesome story being able to help someone in need. Much respect for you guys getting his home out of there.

I love your editing, not boring to watch. Interesting subject matter, but the cutaways and info and storytelling - it's awesome. Well done.

You raised a fine young man we need more dads like you

@19:50 - FYI - the large intake towers that you're referring to as turbines are actually called penstock pipes. The turbine room is within the dam itself. Just a minor correction.

@Sin City Outdoors Absolutely love that you're putting all of this out there for people to see. As a 20+ year resident of Vegas, it's a sad situation we're dealing with. Can you please highlight something else? At one point, Nevada offered to build, maintain and PAY for desalination plants on the Californian coast. They declined

Hi this is Gary you guys are totally awesome for what you guys do and what you recently had helped out with that gentleman with the boat you guys rock senior you're the man and junior I love you commentary man and I'm learning a few things from you about sunset and everything I'm just 69 year old man celebrating my birthday today from California ky 41007And I just wanted to say you guys rock and talking to a lot of people and let them watch your videos and they really love it so hopefully you get a lot of more coming and you guys are awesome and thank you for everything you do and we will continue watching here in California ky.p s. We hear also understand how expensive gas is and the expense that you guys are experiencing For everything you do and I am asking anything I'm proud to watch you guys Take care and i will bewatching

Man, I hope someone with the resources helps that guy out. Hate to say it but it looks that boat is his life. Prayers for him.

Just saw it on the news that thanks to this youtube channel the house boat is now on the water. What a class act by all those involved, sin city outoors / boat tow company- god will bless you in so many ways just wait and see..

Love your updates. We are watching the water situation closely from downriver. Keep up the good work!

Watching from Kingsport, Tennessee. Saw the original Sun City Outdoors video the other night and felt bad for the stranded dude, I have watched Heavy D's TV show. Love to see it payed forward, that is the way we do it up here in the mountains too! Great Job to ALL!!!!!

Mad props to you guys for being a voice loud enough for this man to get help! Y'all are way more down to earth than most big RU-vidrs

Watching a father and son on their adventures is probably the most amazing videos on RU-vid! My 7 yr old son and myself go hunting, camping and hiking on Blood Mountain a couple hours from the house. If y’all ever wanna get away from the water and hit the trails, we’d love for y’all to join us on our hike of the App Trail!! Keep on keeping on brother!

You guys were awesome to help this guy out by putting a shout out in your video! You guys are my new favorite channel, love the updates on the lake, I live in Tucson so that lake has an impact on us here. Awesome job again you guys!

I like the father and son team….and I don’t fish at all…but I like how the stranded guy was ready to be interviewed….sometimes things fall together like magic…so I will subscribe…I like you guys…

I have a feeling someone watching this video will come to help him recover his boat. You guys are a class act, thanks for sharing his story and all your updates. I live in Phx and we all depend on this water. Thanks for your channel and all the updates

The relationship you two have is admirable by any father and son. As any father knows, a son can be a big pain in the ass but it seems you’ve raised a real respectable man. And from a fellow Army vet, thanks for your service!!

Great content and gestures towards those who have been stranded thank you very much between the great work.

The world is so blessed to have people like you two,same to the heavy d crew!

950 is the elevation that we can still generate power up to now because they changed the turbines. At 895 we become Dead Pool

The owner of the houseboat has such a great attitude for his situation. Best of luck to him.

Great to see there is great people like yourself left in Nevada. I was a Vegas resident for 14 years but blessed to be in Texas now.. great video guys and thanks for being so helpful to people you didn’t even know.. come fish East Texas brother!!!

The Diesel Brothers sent me. As an old Combat Engineer, I appreciate the improvisation required to respond to the grounded houseboat. Airborne & the young man did the old carpenter right!

As a Dad to two great guys, it warms my heart to see you and your son being such close friends. You're a great Dad.. and your son is awesome! I love these videos.

You two bring me hope that humanity isn't lost. I really enjoy watching and listening to the genuine interaction with the others and each other. God bless you

Junior and Senior... you guys are awesome. Great men.

Subbed, Phoenix tourney fisherman here…You guys are great, probably going to be one of my favorite channels, keep up the good work it’s so refreshing to see good wholesome content that isn’t over acted or scripted. Solid and the reel deal! Tight Lines brothers!

I tip my hat to you gentlemen. You could've chalked that man's boat up as just another victim of the lake and gone about your business, but you took your time to go over and check on him. You even helped him retrieve his launch and made sure he was good to go. Not only that, a mentioning if anyone could help him out solicited a response from someone capable of that feat. You two have a new follower, subscriber and a store visitor. Take care and much success to you both.

You guys are so amazing..thank you for reaching out trying to help Charlie.... I pray he gets the help he needs... The Hoover Dam sight is frightening... What's crazy is the flooding in Yellowstone and just 746 miles away is massive flooding.. Mother nature is so awesome and crazy....

I’ve been watching you forever awesome videos always helping others, great team now houseboat stuck what can I say helping someone out again this guy isn’t rich and people just didn’t bother to try and help get him unstuck, once you found out you responded by gathering your team and showed up with all the equipment to put him back in the water off the sandbar great job don’t ever stop 🇨🇦👍

You guys totally rock! Love the can do, above and beyond spirit!

People need to reach out to Heavydsparks! He could definitively figure out a way to get that guys boat back into the water for him. Everyone needs to send him this vid.

Thought you guys need to be recognized for your help in this man’s extremely dire situation.. If it wasn’t for you two,and this channel I think he’d be there for quite a while… You basically moved his boat with your camera … I’m sure this man is extremely happy right now ! Awesome job 👍🏻

Thanks for all your videos. Thanks for the updates 🙂.

Waiting on that next water level update. Keep up the good work.

Regarding Hoover Dam, I took the “Damn Dam” Tour (I love that from the Vegas Vacation movie!) and if I recall correctly, those intake towers are not the turbines that generate electricity. Those are simply the water intake valves which are HUGE. There is one area deep inside the dam where you can see through a window and they have spotlight on it, but it shows how wide those intakes actually are. They said you can drive Greyhound buses through those intakes and pipes and they would fit with a little room to spare. When you see them in operation, it’s pretty amazing. The turbines that spin and create electricity (by the water flowing past them and spinning the impellers), those are the things that you see near the beginning of the tour. They look like huge coffee bean roasters, but much, much bigger! I think they are copper if I’m not mistaken, and those are the actual turbines where the electricity comes from. I think there are 6 or 8 of them. And finally, we were told that they are aware of the water’s dangerous level, so a few years ago they drilled underwater and created water intakes that you can’t see because they are way at the bottom underwater. Without those extra intakes they made, I think the dam would be close to useless by now. I have pictures of visiting the Dam and taking the “damn dam” tour, and somewhere around 2002 I think it was, the lake level was normal and everything looked like it should. I had to go back to Vegas 75 different times between 2005 and 2012. I went to the dam about every third trip just to see the water level and to watch the crazy-dangerous construction of the new freeway bypass. It has been shocking to go back each time and see how low the water is. It’s just so shocking each time to see it so much lower. In your videos, it’s the lowest I’ve ever seen it. By the way, that was really interesting about the wind and how big the waves get out on that lake!!!!! I’m still shocked at hearing that and seeing the videos! I never knew that Lake Mead was capable of that! Thanks for your great work. And I hope someone was able to help Craig! We are all human beings and I believe that the vast majority of us are good people. But of course, the bad people are what make the news. Sometimes, it’s hard to remember how good we are when we are force-fed garbage down our throats from the media and from politicians on BOTH SIDES of the aisle.

You Sir, have a great dad! And, you Sir have a great son. You have something that very few people EVER have in life. Never let it die.

I remember visiting in 98 and the water was up to the road at Hoover dam. It amazes me to see how low that water level is now. Thank you so much for bringing attention to this!

I'm ❤ing your coverage and weekly updates. I'm on the east coast of South Carolina and our waters are slowly dropping also. Enjoy the waters while you can.

The active pool level is the point where the dam can generate its maximum rated power, it still generates power down to about 950ft but at a reduced capacity.

WAY TO GO GUYS YOU HELPED A MAN THAT THERE WAS NO HOPE FOR!!!!! I will be a life long supporter of your channel!! Danny in Oklahoma!

Wow, just wow. Thanks for that update...it's just so hard to believe what we are seeing...

Thank you for helping that kind old man . 😁😊⛵

I wish I had this kind of relationship with my dad. I’m blessed to have what I have but man, what a blessing. Y’all are awesome. Much love and best wishes to y’all 💯💪🏼

You guys are doing amazing work documenting a historic point for the lake and the people who are and will be affected by it disappearing... keep it up.

Your son has such a beautiful smile! Happy to know y’all helped the man out!

I came for the news on lake Mead, but definitely staying to check out the rest of your content! Thank you for helping others out! Unfortunately, it's becoming less common these days.

Your son was partially right. It used to be 1050 feet. But after some modifications the last few years I believe it’s down to like 953 feet before the turbines will no longer work

*At the end when the dam is shown. Small correction: the towers are ventilation ports, not intakes. Water induction is separate. For anyone interested in the design of the powerhouses, penstocks, induction tubes and tailraces, the information is available. The effect however, is CORRECT; when the water level drops too low, there is insufficient “head” or drop and runner disks inside the scroll cases will not turn properly under load.*

Man, you guys are really taking-off and gaining a following! I first saw your video about Mead a month or so ago and you only had what, 3k followers? Now you're over 100x that! So glad you stopped to talk to that poor guy that was stranded and that it all worked out for him in the end. Fantastic job getting the ball rolling on that situation. Kudos

I was wondering if you and your son have ever gone and looked at all the structures that were left behind when the dam was built and if they're out of the water now that the water level is down?

So nice to watch a YT video with no cussing. I use to sail on Lake Mead back in the early 1990’s on a 27 foot Catalina. It is shocking to see how far it has fallen. Not surprised with the over growth of all big western cities in the last 30 years.

This father and son due (Sr & Jr) are second to none! They put out great clean content. They are respectful and down to earth - they have a Good Vibe Going! Keep up the fantastic work fellas!

Great job hooking up with HeavyDSparks to Craig. Awesome video footage on both channels. Thanks for reporting on the state of water in the lake. Please do talk about who is served by Lake Mead and how in your vlogs - some folks may not be aware of the impact of this drought and why water conservation is so important. I love how this community get stuff done!

Thankyou for getting help for that stranded gentleman! You guys rock!

My dad had something similar happen when he parked in a cove at night and they lowered lake level over night. His sail boat was stranded for weeks. He first dug a trench to let boat sit level, then dug a trench from his boat to the water. It was slow going, but he got it. Big day when his boat went sailing back to marina. Folks helped by loaning a boat to get back and forth to marina and folks helped dig as able. By hand. It was cool to see. You all are great for stopping and checking on him, helping and love all here working to get him and boat out.

We have a slip at Calville, an for ppl like us that grew up on the lake, an our kids did, an now our grandkids, this really hits home hard! Just heartbreaking!

My new favorite channel how selfless and kind! What a great story!

So sad, I remember going out on boat parties at Lake Mead in the late 80’s. Those were good times. I’m speechless.

Not much of a fisherman but my grandpa was. Watching your videos and the way you interact with your son brings back nostalgic memories. Absolutely love the videos brother!

You guys are the real deal, I can see you are some of the best people this country needs. I really appreciate your very informative information, it shows you two do your homework to provide much more than entertainment. God bless you and your family and god bless us all that call southern Nevada our home!❤️👍🏼🙏🏼🍀 keep up the great work!

Love your videos. You are good people. Praying for y'all. God bless.

Thank you for helping him out!

Happy Father’s Day! Jr ‘s character of being educated and respectful shows you did a great job rearing a child. One of the hardest jobs and it appears he can survive on his own . Thank You Both for keeping us posted.

What a lovely soul, laughing and cheerful even with his boat stuck. I'd be a miserable grump wanting to get out of there. He seems so happy and content, all smiles. Poor guy, I hope he gets some help.

I stumbled across one of your videos last week , they are very informative , appreciate you for sharing! Thank you!

Love your guys videos. You both seem like good chill guys keep it up!