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I throughly enjoyed reading the entire story. However I found it strange he sort of ended with “they searched for the car and asked us to leave.” The first one they got thanked profusely. But at no point did the author ever claim to have definitively found the car or the body. It’s humble but almost oddly so. Anyway great story.
Finnish people are typically quite humble and don't invite a lot of attention.
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Did you RTFA? https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-06/
Is in the 6th section, maybe a bit too late, don't you think?
:-D
The quest he mentions as inspiration - Tom Mahood's "The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans" - is a fascinating read and worth your time. https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu... I first read it seven years ago and similar to the author, it inspired me to join my local Search & Rescue team which has been incredibly rewarding. I highly recommend doing that to anyone who wants to combine a love of…
As someone who has spent a fair bit of time around Death Valley, it really helped to illuminate how someone with no point of reference about the environment could really get themselves in trouble.
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I'm surprised someone hasn't made a miniseries out of this yet. It'd make a good one.
Maybe someone from Netflix engineering is reading this and passing the idea to someone tied with content production...
(Netflix employees have to pitch stories via agents, just like any “nobody” would, FWIW.)
I didn't expect to read this whole piece but it was completely gripping. Outstanding work and a really great write up.