For six seasons we travelled across the North pulling lost objects and debris from the lakes and waterways.
After airing on Northwestel, the episodes are Released to YouTube here:
SEASON 1
Episode One: Winter cleanups.
In the middle of the winter outside of Yellowknife the team heads out… in -50 degrees Celsius temperatures… to recover three skidoos that crashed through thin ice. We employ helicopters to get them out… to our surprise we also found a minivan at the same site…. We then plan to get that out of the water too.
https://youtu.be/SdwBU_d429I
Episode Two: Betting on a boat.
The team conducts a cleanup around one of Yellowknife’s iconic houseboats. The owner happened to float her houseboat immediately above a previously burnt one. The debris threatens to cut the new houseboat mooring lines sending her adrift. Fred and Jeremy make a ridiculous bet: the debate is on if the team found a boat on the bottom or something else. https://youtu.be/Ciuo5oF_PHo
Episode Three: Flakes of Glory.
We head to Hidden Lake NWT in search of gold. The site of an old gold mine is our destination, with an old timer named Geezer as the lead prospector for the adventure. According to him, everything that sparkles in the water is gold.
https://youtu.be/IemwqIyLYV8
SEASON 2
Episode Four: Houseboats and Rings and Things.
Monique Roberts, a local artist, house boater and B&B operator arrives by boat to pick Jeremy up from the docks. She explains some of the troubles she is having under her houseboat with pipe filtration systems as well as floats under the houseboat. Monique gives Jeremy a quick tour of the houseboats on their way through the bay.
Jeremy and Claire ride in Jeremy’s truck to a new dive site. Jeremy explains to Claire that they are going to check where his friend Gord who lost his engagement ring while jumping off cliffs into Walsh Lake. As they drive the two reminisce about Jeremy’s inability to carry out a well-planned date.
https://youtu.be/3URci1n9ji0
https://youtu.be/0i8fOsa01BM
Episode Five: Over the falls.
Jeremy along with Claire and Fred prepare to leave Yellowknife and drive south to the community of Kakisa. Jeremy has received word that an unmanned stray boat has gone over the Lady Evelyn Falls. The boat has been retrieved but the motor has been lost and the owners would like to retrieve it if possible. https://youtu.be/BSkQ41rptKE
https://youtu.be/qI5sFx0IMVU
Episode Six: Back to Kakisa Lake
While on a road trip Jeremy and Claire receive a call about a lost boat and submerged gear in Kakisa. Although they are not entirely prepared and do not have an exact location, they decide to go looking for it anyway. They meet community members Chris and Tarek who agree to take them out on the lake to the area where the boat flipped. Jeremy, Claire and Fred dive but are unable to locate the missing boat and gear. https://youtu.be/HcfwOfgIKqA
https://youtu.be/UnN8f09xB_s
Episode Seven: Boat Troubles
Fred uses a drone to search the far shoreline of the lake to see if they can locate Danny’s boat that capsized during the storm. They do not find anything with the drone, so they prepare to move on to a different area of the lake.
Danny tries to start the engine and discovers that something has gone wrong with the motor. They try to start and then repair the motor but are unable to. Stranded on the far side of the lake they discuss what to do. They decide that Danny will use the tiny trolling motor to slowly make their way back. Jeremy will go ahead with Tarek and continue the search.
https://youtu.be/92mCN2fxmIk
https://youtu.be/J9ValIBEUlo
Episode Eight: Hidden Lake Gold.
Geezer takes Jeremy and company out to a nearby island where prospectors and miners had a camp in the 40’s. They roam the island finding relics and remains from 80 years ago. Geezer takes them on a tour of the old mining locations and shows them how they accessed the quartz vein in the 40’s, and how they mined in winter.
https://youtu.be/vtSaO_l0zTE
https://youtu.be/yVlnKBHo8i4
SEASON 3
Episode Nine: Jean Marie River (Part 1).
The crew head out on a road trip to Jean Marie River to help locate a car that went into the waters near the community. Everyone is concerned that the car was swept down the Mackenzie river.
Episode Ten: Jean Marie River (Part 2).
After successfully locating the lost vehicle, the crew attach chains to it, and stand by as the community gathers together to pull the sunken vehicle out of the waters.
Episode Eleven: Flippy Canoes (Tartan Rapids / Madeline Lake / Prelude Lake).
Claire and Jeremy get called out to several different locations to help recover the items in canoes that flipped over. The first lost all their fishing gear. In a second location and a different group flipped going down the rapids, losing plenty of sentimental gear.
https://youtu.be/lxzBrqsP9D4
https://youtu.be/zDSRlrATd1w
Episode Twelve: McNallie Creek.
Claire and Jeremy head to McNallie Creek to try to recover debris and garbage from the bottom of the pool under the falls. They find objects of curiosity and potential historical value. Fighting off horrendous bug swarms, Claire is injured while travelling through the woods to the dive site. Found some interesting wheels in McNallie Creek! What do you think they are? Maybe wagon wheels, maybe some kind of pully system?
https://youtu.be/GQBe7F94xD0
https://youtu.be/qAr7Ix2nX3o
Episode Thirteen: East Arm Ghost Nets.
Claire and Jeremy head out to the East Arm of the Great Slave Lake to look into reports of sunken, discarded fishing gear near a friends lodge. While looking for the gear, Claire gets in some world class trout fishing. They find a net where they least expect it!
https://youtu.be/w9Z6SAviyWM
https://youtu.be/xWbuAIACWGs
https://youtu.be/S0aI4MD3uyo
SEASON 4
Episode Fourteen: Do the (Ski)Doo.
In the middle of winter, a husband and wife were travelling at night on skidoo. In the dark they failed to see the thin ice ahead of them. They crashed through the ice, their skidoo sinking to the bottom of the river. Jeremy and Chris head out to help recover the lost machine.
https://youtu.be/anMS91g4c30
Episode Fifteen: Clan Lake UFO.
In 1960, two canoers witnessed a strange object crash into Clan Lake. This unexplained crash back during the cold war was investigated by the RCMP. Jeremy and the crew heads to Clan Lake in the middle of winter to investigate. We are trying to find out what the source of the mystery is. Really, we are looking for a UFO here….
https://youtu.be/rp9De4mmljo
Episode Sixteen: Hidden Lake.
Jeremy’s out niece comes to town from southern Canada. While visiting he teachers her the skills of SCUBA diving. After training they head out to Hidden Lake to look for gold at Geezer’s claim!
https://youtu.be/us5h9BWTP8g
Episode Seventeen: East Arm 2.0.
At the end of the season last year, Andrew Moore from Yellowknife Sportfishing Adventures spotted on SONAR what he thought may be another discarded fishing net. The crew head out with Andrew to try to discover what’s trapping the fish in the East Arm of the Great Slave Lake.
https://youtu.be/Rt2XHRAQGAo
Episode Eighteen: Drones and Phones.
Over the course of the season Jeremy and crew get called out to help people recover lost items. This time around it is aerial drones and expensive cel phones! My friend Jenny and I head to the Cameron River to follow up on a report of a lost drone. Danny and I head out for a different adventure, to look for a lost phone, and a TON of fishing gear!
https://youtu.be/NBZuLy1Gbuw
SEASON 5
Episode Nineteen: Argo and Defeat Lake
Argos are supposed to be amphibious …. this one wasn’t! Mathias and I head out to locate and raise an ARGO from the bottom of Reid Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada!! We put our skills to the challenge of getting this machine from the bottom of the lake and back to shore!!!
In this episode, we go out to help a local pilot recover the lost mooring for his float plane! Usually divers only record a shore or boat entry for their dive sites…. Not for me, not this time! I don’t know of any other divers who entered from a float plane!
https://youtu.be/Ls8wDcptGvg
https://youtu.be/sBDkI3uUcGY
Episode Twenty: Finding All Steel
I am hunting for All Steel. A trawler that sank outside of town in 2013. We end up using a lot of different equipment to look for it: side scan sonar, a magnetometer and an underwater drone. Some searches are easy, but this one developed over several years. Come along as we search for this lost boat! (this part 1 of 2)
In the conclusion of this story, after several years of searching, I finally got my first glimpse of the All Steel which sank in 2013 in Yellowknife, northwest Territories Canada. And then tragedy struck! 🙁 I lost a VERY expensive piece of equipment on this episode.
https://youtu.be/HF9SV-_Wsiw
https://youtu.be/6aH6YRN0qOI
Episode Twenty-One: Banff Ice Diver 1.
During a training dive under ice, I experienced a free flow regulator! This causes the air in my tank to rapidly flow out. The problem with ice diving and running out of air, you can’t just go straight up, you need to get back to the hole in the ice! Also in this episode: Jenny gets flooded and almost becomes a hypothermia causality. Lots of lessons to learn on this one.
https://youtu.be/Zm4qYUgyPSw
https://youtu.be/VgwwtTn62kE
Episode Twenty-Two: Banff Ice Diver 2.
In this episode, we are back at Lake Minnewanka, Alberta to complete our final dives needed to obtain the PADI Ice Diver Certification! While there are maybe millions of open water divers out there, there are not many Ice Diver certified PADI divers. It take a lot of preparation, equipment, a support team and steel nerves to jump under the ice!
After a great weekend of training, Jenny and I finally complete the PADI Ice Diver certification! Now we will be able to dive year round in Yellowknife! That is – if we can get through the 5 feet of ice!
https://youtu.be/yPezwyZAftg
https://youtu.be/zjOGgDV0NYk
Episode Twenty-Three: Walsh Lake Gopro
How do you make a dive site in Yellowknife in the middle of winter, when the ice is 5 feet thick? With a 6 foot long chain saw! After spending the morning cutting through the 5 feet of ice, we finally are ready to get into the water and get diving. This was our FIRST winter ice dive in Yellowknife!!! The under ice diving was AMAZING. The ice was so clear (and thick). The sediment was down and the lake was the clearest I have ever seen! And yeah, we found my buddy’s gopro!
https://youtu.be/_MSHIS1M0Ds
https://youtu.be/gcAdFvWKdto
SEASON 6
Episode Twenty-Four: Drones and Phones
During a season of wildfires, Jeremy and the crew head out to Cameron River to search the falls for a lost drone.
Episode Twenty-Five: Saving the Orn
Jeremy and Terry head to the far ends of the Great Slave Lake to try to help a 100-year-old boat from sinking
Episode Twenty-Six: Under Thin Ice
The shit I Found crew head to Lake Minnewanka in Alberta to learn how to safely scuba dive under the ice. The guys get certified as ice divers, and Jeremy earned his Ice Diver Instructor certification.
Episode Twenty-Seven: Duck Duck Baby
With new Ice diving skills, everyone is out in the middle of the northern winter to look for a phone lost in an ice fishing hole. It happens to be Jeremy’s own phone lost
Episode Twenty-Eight: Still Looking for Gold
The team uses a dredge and sluice to try to capture gold from an old mine.
Episode Twenty-Nine: Trophy Lodge
The team head to Trophy Lodge to locate a sunken skidoo..
Episode Thirty: Stagg Night
Jeremy and Terry head out after a wildfire to look for a friends lost shotgun in the Stagg River.