Florida divers go deep with sonar to find sunken cars, solve cold-case mysteries

There’s a car down there, deep in the muck of the Hillsborough River. Maybe a motorcycle.
They found it the other day, out on their little boat with their fancy fish finder: a shadow on the sonar with a golden blob in the center.
Now, on a warm winter afternoon, they’re wriggling into wetsuits below the 40th Street bridge, about to dive for a license plate.
“Could be stolen,” says John Martin, 55.
“Could be a homicide,” says Mike Sullivan, 44. “You never know. There could be a body in the trunk.”
In the last two years, the half-brothers who own Sunshine State Sonar have found more than 350 cars in canals, ponds and waterways across Florida.
Weekend fishermen turned amateur underwater detectives, the true-crime junkies dive into cold cases, searching for the disappeared. Sometimes, they choose the cases themselves, following threads online. Other times, law enforcement asks for their help.
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[@willie123811]

What about the gators?

[@dantastic721]

No way im going in water u cant see. No way