Vancouver Island submerged truck recovery expedition

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that sux man. hope you get her out.

titanic would suite her well too good choice.:cheers:
 
JoeCanadian said:
where is the VI Cruisers club meeting, my buddy Kyle that was with me when we sunk it lives in vic and said he might be able to make the meeting for me. he is quight the intense dude and any time we get together it is an epic adventure.
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Les, we met in Langford; see https://forum.ih8mud.com/showpost.php?p=2558849&postcount=1

There was some interest in trying to get up to help you out but CR is a good 3-4 hours away. Let us know your plans for the weekend and we'll see who can make the trip.

-Steve
 
offer to bring FREE beer for the helpers always gets more interest:beer:
 
Dude, knowing just a smidge about boat recovery, I really wish ya luck in pulling it out of 15-20 ft of water w/ just a 8k winch.
Ideally, you'd wanna get some air bladders on front and rear, and the low side to flip it wheels down when all bladders inflate. Then drag it near the edge, get it resting on it's wheels, then pull VERY slowly up on terra-firma. A boat would need a few high output bilges running as it reached surface, but the truck should self-bilge w/ just opening doors if ya pull it out slow enough. Pulling out too fast will quickly overtax even a 15k winch. Have two divers in the water, and a 3rd ready to rescue one if the rig rolls wrong and heads bottomwards.
I'm making this a big production, but I don't wanna see your buddy post up that you joined your rig in it's watery tomb. There's a real finesse involved in righting the rig while keeping it outta the rocky bottom, while fighting a current. Water is stoopid heavy, so be careful.
Good luck.
 
Yeah, I'm thinking that this may be a bit bigger job than expected. If the rig is 15-20 feet down, just from slipping/rolling of the bank, then that mus be a pretty steep dropoff. Getting the rig up, even after you have hooked on to it and even after you have gotten it on it's wheels is not gonna be easy without a bigger winch.

Getting it back on it's wheels is gonna be a job all on it's own.

Any of the local towing companies do off road recoveries?


Mark...
 
wow, if you could get the diver to take an underwater el-cheapo camera with him and snap some pics, well that would be unreal!!! at least the sweetest avatar pics on mud besides Noah's. good luck getting that thing out. if this helps, our waterski club had a jump ramp that sank to about 8 ft of water. i made some friggen huge fishhooks out of 1/2" diameter steel rod. basically lowered the hooks down in the water until i felt it hook the frame. then used 55gallon drums and tons of winch straps to bring it up. good luck man!
 
Wile E Coyote said:
Dude, knowing just a smidge about boat recovery, I really wish ya luck in pulling it out of 15-20 ft of water w/ just a 8k winch.
Ideally, you'd wanna get some air bladders on front and rear, and the low side to flip it wheels down when all bladders inflate. Then drag it near the edge, get it resting on it's wheels, then pull VERY slowly up on terra-firma. A boat would need a few high output bilges running as it reached surface, but the truck should self-bilge w/ just opening doors if ya pull it out slow enough. Pulling out too fast will quickly overtax even a 15k winch. Have two divers in the water, and a 3rd ready to rescue one if the rig rolls wrong and heads bottomwards.
I'm making this a big production, but I don't wanna see your buddy post up that you joined your rig in it's watery tomb. There's a real finesse involved in righting the rig while keeping it outta the rocky bottom, while fighting a current. Water is stoopid heavy, so be careful.
Good luck.
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Brilliant advise, no rig is worth risking serious injury or lose of life. Be carefull and good luck!!!
 
Have you called local police? they always have divers, maybe one would be willing to come.
 
I wish I was independtly wealthy...Id be on my way to help out. Always love a good adventure.


Good luck...If its only 15-20 feet down, a strong swimmer should be able to swim down and attach cables to it. I swim those depths a lot with out much trouble at all.

Go hang out at the pool and see if you can find a good swimmer ;)
 
I bet that water is cold, and that would really effect a diver without a tank. This probably needs to be something that pros take care of.

If worse comes to worse, then atleast flip it over so that you can drive it out!
 
calphi27 said:
I bet that water is cold, and that would really effect a diver without a tank. This probably needs to be something that pros take care of.

If worse comes to worse, then atleast flip it over so that you can drive it out!
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Wet suits brudda...

a 5.4mm suit with a hoody would be fine.
 
Unreal. Not much to add from my corner - amazing story, glad you made it out, take some pics for us landlubbers and be very, very careful. Good news is cold, fast-running freshwater is probably the best kind you could hope for. Not that you were hoping for any of this.
 
man that sucks. Wish I could help. 15-20 ft down in a lake or river up here is well beyond wetsuit territory this time of year. you will need a proper dive drysuit or it will be a really short trip! Brrrrrr....

I would call the RCMP get there help. Yes you will get charged with driving in a river/lake etc. but its best to let them know of a potential hazzard and environmental problem that needs to be taken care of ASAP.
 
The water is so cold that our buddy who is the best swimmer out of all of us couldnt stay down long enough. He even had flippers and a wet suit on. But we have a diver now. We are offering FREE BEER to whomever can bring up a big tired, big powered, big winch truck. We would also pay $50 for gas! We really just want her out of the water and back at home. We will vid and pics the whole thing, but it's raining and windy now so we are really needing a big big truck.
Thanks for the advice about getting it out Wile E Coyote. Please keep spreading the word as we are getting down to the line here.
Thanks
 
Good news on the diver. I wish you the best of luck. If I wasn't all the way in South Carolina I would lend a hand.

Be careful. If your recovery doesn't seem to be working then stop, take a step back, and reassess. This isn't worth getting someone hurt over.

Best of luck! :beer:
 
WOW ...sorry tho hear about it, post pic hope you get her out soon
 
This is a crazy story! How did you get in water that deep? Best of luck with the recovery, sounds like there is a lot of good advice being passed around; I wouldn't have a clue how to recover my cruiser from the bottom of a lake, let alone a river with a current. Be careful and document if you can with photos!
 
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