SOLVED: Missing 11-years Underwater (Yvon Guévin and His Dog Caustad)

We have a Jeep Cherokee, plate number GZP 655.
We have him. That’s him.

After 11 years of wondering what happened to a missing man, his family finally has an answer thanks to a dive team.
Ivón vanished in 2014.
The Jeep Cherokee was hauled out today, with his family saying it’s a great relief to finally know what happened.

Everyone knew him.
The community all came down.
It was like the whole town was celebrating that he had finally come home.

Today, we’ve brought our first Canadian home.
For families who have all but given up on finding their loved ones, this team is a last hope.

This has become a new phenomenon: civilian divers cracking cold cases for free.

“Welcome to Canada.”
“Yeah, what a great experience to be here today.”

Today, we’re searching for a 75‑year‑old man named Ivon Guvvin, who went missing with his dog Costad, a little Doberman Pinscher.
He went missing in an old‑school Jeep Cherokee, a 1989 square‑body vehicle.
“I’ve seen it on sonar before in the past, that same style of vehicle. So I think if we see it here, we’ll pick it up.”

We always believe that within a 1 to 5 mile radius, we’re going to start and work the entire river edge here.
At 75 years old, his cognitive abilities were lessening, according to the French paper.
He was struggling with different things and had talked about going to a place that he knew.

“Yeah. And that was the specific term that he used: ‘I’m going to a place that I know.’”
He’s in a four‑wheel drive, a big vehicle, with lots of entry points all the way along the water.
So yes, we always check the boat ramp first, but there are so many entry points we can check.

We’re going to be methodical, making sure there’s absolutely nothing at the bottom that’s worth diving on.
“Let’s make it happen. Let’s go.”

Nothing definitive yet.
So I’m going towards the boat ramp.
I’m going to go right into the boat ramp and do this section a couple of times, because I do have items in here.

There’s a lot of debris on the bottom.
A big tree to my right.
That’s a cool old pile of pilings there, the pillars all the way across.

I’ve got something on my left, just throwing off a shine with a board and a square.
Those look like windows.
That looks like a little toy car right there.

It’s got a really weird shine off the back of it.
These are the pillars of that bridge right here.
I don’t think you can get in anywhere here.

9 ft, 5 in.
8 ft, 7 in.
5 ft, 1 in.
6 ft, 1 in.
8 ft again.

And I think, yeah, he definitely could get almost to that pillar.
Lower my speed a bit.
Right there. Square. Really square.

Really square, throwing off a shadow.
It almost looks too square, but it does look like it’s in the silt, whatever it is.
I’m in the water column now with it, going over it there.

Yeah, it’s throwing off a shadow.
Let me go back over it again this way.
I’ve got it right here.

I have something popping up on live.
“Yeah, that’s interesting.”
“That’s the reason why we’re struggling, because of that. Yeah. Yeah.”

“What is it?”
“We don’t know what it is. I think we should just try the magnet real quick, see if it’s a rock, and then keep moving if it’s not.”

“Right there. No, right there, right there.”
“That’s a huge object.”
“I’m on.”

“You’re on. Slow down, slow down, slow down. Neutral.”
“It’s way too big for a car, but it’s got a shape right there. Stop.”
“It’s huge. It fills up the whole screen. It’s got to be like a steel barge or something.”

“Well, let’s remember we’re only at 12 ft, so it’s going to look big. I got magnet directly to it.”
“It looks upside down, but I don’t have tires. I’m on something on the bottom. We gotta dive it.”

“Yeah. I need access to that.”

“Heat. Heat.”
“It’s a metal barge, like you said.”

“It’s all right though. It’s about the right size. But it’s made of metal, that’s why you locked onto it.”
“I’m going to bring you to the docks so you can walk the closest place to the car.”

“Your heads are warm.”
“Go check down into those pillars where the lady said the old dock was.”

“We’ll do the pillars real quick for them.”
5.6 ft at the pillars.
I don’t think you’re coming off a cliff here; you’re going to hit straight bottom with the front face of your car unless this has changed.

10.2 ft of water, though.
12 ft.
“Let me see if I can call a police officer.”

“Uh, English. Do you speak English? This is non‑emergency.”
“This is non‑emergency. Can we get to a detective that is taking care of the Avon Guvvin from Pierreville?”

“Two, one, two, three. Up.”
We need to find out more information before we can do anything else here.

“Bonjour.”
“Bonjour.”
“English?”
“Oh, a little bit, yes.”

“I called because we are looking for Mr. Guvvin.”
“Yes, we are here.”
“Yes, we searched the frontage and found a barge, didn’t find him in here.”

“Okay.”
“We searched down to the corner here where you could go in. I did not search here.”
“But men don’t go far.”

“Okay.”
“We go to our fishing holes. Every person we’ve found has been in their fishing hole, where they fish.”
“So where did he—it says in the articles—keen fisherman.”

“Okay.”
“I know at the museum we have a key—”
“A what?”

“You know, like a boat ramp.”
“Yes.”
“Boat ramp here.”

“Yes, over here. Maybe there. Never searched before.”
“Not me.”
“Okay. We will go there and do that next.”

“Where else do you think he would go here? Like, is it thin?”
“Yes. Over there.”
“Over here?”

“Yes, they fish.”
“Yes. Okay.”
“But maybe it’s not deep.”

“No, not deep.”
“We’ll start there and see what we can find there, and then we’ll go from there.”

“That is a heavy canoe right there.”
“Yeah.”
“I’m going out here real quick to look. I mean, you want to roll in, here’s your spot.”

And it’s certainly more isolated.
You could come here during the day.
Unless someone saw you go in from the other side, she’s going to be about over there.

Just over there, enough to go down and float out, maybe tip over.
It’s the easiest place also to do it by accident.
“Oh yeah, this isn’t by accident.”

13 ft.
Lots of rocks on my left.
Lots of rocks.

The current’s pushing us down, though, so we should go into the current a bit.
Still 11.9 ft right here.
This would be ideal.

Really tight to the bank.
It’s always better if you’re going against the current; you just have more control.
Just get a little bit more, just in case it floated a long way.

100 ft to my left, just rocks.
Good, clear area to scan.
Only 6 ft deep here.

Looks like a boat ramp on that side too.
Going to 5 ft deep here.
2.9 ft.

“That’s a public ramp, I think.”
Over a ramp. Yeah, they’re much shallower this side.
3.8 ft, dropping down a little bit now.

Over 6 ft.
Fishers have got their fishing line across the boat ramp.
12.9 ft, 12.6 ft, nothing in there.

“Okay, we’re good. That section’s cleared.”

One of the problems, of course, with this time frame—1:00 automatically my mind goes to: it’s only 1:00, he’s gone on to a secret spot off at a lake somewhere.
We’ve just gone from like 15 ft up to 8 ft.
Once you get to the center of the river, it’s actually really shallow.

But it was down 4 ft, and that’s why these little islands have kind of appeared everywhere.
Once we come around this corner right here, there’s a little inlet.
Hopefully, it’s deep enough for us to take a boat to this road that comes down.

There’s a little dirt path.
It looks like a very quiet nook.
And that’s what we’re looking for: that nice quiet spot that no one’s going to see you from across the river.

And it’s accessible by car.
It’s accessible by car.
What’s unfortunate is it seems like fishermen, once they find their good spot, they don’t share it with anyone.

“So then what do we do?”
“Do we go along and then go to the lake and clear some of the easier accesses there, which is in a more built‑up area than here?”

“Yeah.”
“But by the time he gets there, it’s 3–4:00. He could sit on the river bank and wait till it’s empty and then drive in.”
“It’s not uncommon to see old people hanging out at boat ramps.”

“I wish we could talk with the wife, because just like Robert Long—when we found Robert Long, his wife showed up and was like, ‘I knew he was right here. He always came here,’ and the cops just missed him.”
“It wasn’t their fault. It’s just the sonar setup that they have. It makes it really hard to find stuff at boat ramps.”
“And 14 years ago, this stuff was only really just starting to come out.”

“Yeah.”
“A lot of those older cases we take on, it’s like they threw divers in and they kind of swam around, and as you saw when you were diving on it, you can’t see anything.”

“No.”
“I found those rocks and I was right next to the car and I couldn’t see it, and that was relatively clean water. This would be even worse.”

“Yeah. This would be even worse. There’s no point diving this unless you’ve got a magnet on.”

So this is the little alcove you’re talking about.
“Uh, yes.”
So we’re 11 ft deep here.

Once we get over here, there’s a bridge, and right before the bridge, there’s a path down that looks like you can drive straight in.
“I can see the bridge on the drone. Hopefully it stays deep enough. I don’t know. This water—you can’t see through it.”
So we’re sitting at 9 ft.

We’re clearing the whole length of this width‑wise.
On the map, the road is over here.
“Let me try and find it on the drone. I’m coming over it now.”

Well, this is 6.8 ft.
Very clear bottom.
If there’s going to be anything here, it’ll stand out.

“I’m looking behind on the drone where the road comes in, where that guy was. And it looks like there’s a pond behind here, but it’s extremely shallow.”
Lots of vegetation on the surface.
“This is like Long Island.”

“So you think there’s more down here or not?”
“No.”
“But where the road comes next to the river is back out on the main river.”

“Oh, look. There’s a car.”
“There is a car down the embankment. Look at that.”
“That’s funny. Don’t know if anyone even knows it’s there.”

“Let’s go and have a look. Bit of urban exploring.”
“It’s like a van. It’s crazy.”
It’s been here a while, too.

It’s all tools.
So someone’s obviously gone through the car.
Still full of tools—but some tools, anyway.

Can’t see anyone in the seat, which is a good thing.
As police—and obviously it’s a worldwide thing, not just Australia—you always put a bit of tape on the vehicle, police tape, to say, “Hey, we know it’s here.”
So that tells me straight away police already know this vehicle’s here and just said, “You know what? It’s going to stay here,” and it’s been here a long time.

Amazing it’s still got wheels on it; someone hasn’t taken them.
It’s ’cause they’re nice in Canada.
“They are nice in Canada.”

“With the cages on it, is that… It’s not a police car, is it? Like a prisoner transport?”
“Yeah, I wonder what the story is for this. But she’s been here at least a while, like it’s quite well buried.”

“All right, let’s go walk through the stinging nettles. If you run like this, it doesn’t hurt.”
“This is the bit.”
[Music]

So this is where the road starts getting close to the water.
We could technically come in at any point over this embankment for the next mile or so.
Farther down the river, it looks like the road gets closer, but still there are trees, with one or two clearings.

It’s quite a clean river, all things said and done.
Canada, well done to you.
I mean, look at the sonar.

This is like the cleanest part of the river, and yeah, this thing goes on forever, down to the dam and Perryville, and the road hugs it the whole way.
“The only question I would have is at that T intersection there.”
“Well, that was the T intersection right there, Dan.”

“Oh, was it?”
“Yeah. And there is nothing.”
“Well, I would have thought this was a prime location just for someone launching it off. So I’m pretty happy with our effort.”

“I might go just out a little bit further on the way back, just for this section, and then we might punch it to go back ‘cause we are starting to get low on fuel.”

“So where that green‑roof house is, on the right‑hand side of that, where that arrow is, that’s where it is.”
“Yeah. Yeah.”
“So pretty much where this buoy is.”

“There is an object a little bit further down. I might just one last run, if you don’t mind.”
“And I just went directly over the top of whatever it was, and it’s that big. But I’d rather be safe than sorry.”
“Right. Let’s head back and reconvene with young Bill and see where we go next from this.”

[Music]

“You don’t drink Canada Dry, but you’re in Canada—you gotta have a Dry Canada. Maybe with some vodka or maybe some something.”
“I’m not making it up by myself, I’m telling you that right now. Put your camera down.”

“Okay, tough guys. Go. Ready? 1, 2, 3, go.”
“Come on. Pick it up.”
“We’re trying.”

“Come on. Pick it up. Keep going.”
“To the right, to the right, to the right.”

“Okay, what’s our plan, William?”

“This is not an alcoholic that’s making the decision to leave the planet.”
“This is an old man whose cognitive abilities are going away and he’s struggling, and he has his dog, his favorite animal on earth, with him.”
“He left his wife at home and he took his dog, and he put it in a river somewhere where he fishes, where he knows. It’s somewhere he knows.”

“I’m going to ask someone closer to town, ‘cause everyone says that she lived right up here.”
“So I’m going to go right behind the… I’m going to go to the ice cream store, I think, and ask the ice cream store, ‘cause everyone likes ice cream.”

“Can I have a chocolate top while you’re there?”
“Huh?”
“Can I have a chocolate top while you’re there, please?”

“You can get whatever you want to get.”
“I didn’t bring my wallet, so you’ll have to pay.”

“Why don’t we split up and go ask questions? That’s part of teamwork—spreading out and taking on three houses and asking.”

“Gentlemen, how are you? English at all?”
“A little bit.”

“We are a YouTube channel that has found 36 people underwater in their cars. And so what I’m trying to do is find out where he fished.”
“He was supposed to be fishing, because he was a big fisherman with his friend.”

“He…”
“Yeah.”
“And he goes with… and he calls his friend and says, ‘I’m going to get you in about 30 minutes.’”

“Okay. So he’s supposed to go fishing with his friend. He called his friend and said, ‘I’m going to get you in about 30 minutes.’”
“And he never goes with his car, and that’s all. Goes away. That’s all.”

“So where did his friend live that was 13 minutes away?”
“He is in hospital actually. He is sick.”

“He is sick.”
“He’s sick now.”
“Wow.”

“But when he was here, where would he have been picked up from?”
“He never met because he never…”
“Yeah.”

“His friend to go fishing.”
“Yeah. No. No.”

“So if I’m going to pick you up, and I’m going to drive to you from my house right here to go pick you up in 13 minutes, where is that 13 minutes away?”
“Where was he when he was 13 minutes away? Was he here and the friend lived 13 minutes away, or was he coming back to Pierreville?”

“He’s very well for him, and he never had…”
“Okay.”
“No. No.”

“All I know is he is gone with his past.”
“If there’s something that you figure out, my phone number’s on there, my email—William, William McIntosh, Min… with Apple.”

“I hope you…”
“Thank you, sir.”
“Okay. Thank you.”

“Officer Stussy, hi, it’s Bill McIntosh again, sir. How are you?”
“I’m pretty good, yourself?”
“I’m good, but I just wanted to touch base with you, ‘cause we’ve been sonaring the river and worked our way up towards the St. Lawrence.”

“But I was just wondering if you had any more information.”
“Actually, his cousin just gave me a call about a couple minutes ago, and he’s searching now for the door number on the address.”
“He wasn’t home, so he had to call a family member to try to find out the exact address, so he should be calling me within the next hour. That’s what he told me.”

“Okay. So are you talking about Ivon’s address?”
“Yes.”
“We’ve already talked to the next‑door neighbor of Ivon.”

“We don’t want to bother his wife. We know where she lives, and we know that he was supposed to pick up his fishing buddy, and he was supposed to pick him up in 13 minutes, was the exact terminology they used, and they were going to go fishing.”

“Okay.”
“Where he went missing is 13 minutes away from picking up his friend at his house.”

“Okay.”
“All right. Let me call back my contact and I’ll try to get the information, because I was asking for Ivon’s address, not his friend’s address.”

“Thank you, sir. I appreciate it.”
“Thank you, Stephan.”
“My pleasure. Let me call you back.”

“Thank you.”
“Bye‑bye.”

“See you later.”
“Thank you. Bye.”

“Okay, I don’t think he’s far. I mean, the fact that he said 13 minutes on the phone to his friend—‘I’ll be there in 13 minutes’—that’s a specific number.”
“I’m on the way there with my dog, with my fishing rod and my stuff in my Jeep Cherokee, and ‘Let’s go fishing, bud.’”

“Medical emergency. Yeah. I mean, goes off the side of the road on one turn, just like so many people have done.”
“Let’s see if we can narrow it down and tomorrow bring him home.”

“Good morning, Bill. We are back in Pierreville, and we’re continuing our search.”
Last night, we received some information about his last known movements.
We have now found out that he was actually going to a hardware store on the way to Yamaska.

And so Yamaska is only about 11 to 12 minutes away from where we are currently standing.
So what we’re going to do now is—there’s a boat ramp and a bridge at Yamaska.
We’re going to go past the hardware, so we then clear our circle of travel, and there’s limited water on these different routes that he’s traveling.

In the meantime, I’m going to go to the wife’s house and see if I can sit down with her for a cup of coffee and talk with her about his normal travel patterns.
“Let’s get in the water and let’s get it done, brother.”

“It’s not good.”
“It’s about the worst thing that could have happened. Just about the worst.”

“We’re down to 10 ft at the moment.”
14 ft here below the bridge.

By going upstream, you actually have a little bit more control than going with the current.
So we want to have as much control so we can control our pace and our search area.
I’ll do several passes back and forth.

Submerged tree there.
Pretty clear upstream from the bridge and the boat ramp.
As we know, this river has a bit of a current in it.

If a vehicle goes into the water here and the windows are up, it will actually float a lot further out.
Coming up to the boat ramp here, I see a shadow off the boat ramp, but it looks like just rocks.
We’re only at 9 ft. If there was a vehicle up there, it would stand out pretty clearly.

So we’ll go out another 100 ft—or probably only 75 ft—so we have a bit of crossover.
I always like to have a bit of crossover from what we’ve done so there’s no risk of something getting in between the two passes.
Good, clear images, so it takes the guesswork out.

I wouldn’t expect it past the bridge in any way, though.
And just from experience, I would say there’s nothing down here.
We’re going to search on the other side as well.

So even out here in the middle, it’s only 8 or so feet deep, perfectly clear.

But with every area we clear, it’s another spot we can confidently say, “Yeah, he hasn’t gone in here. He’s got to be somewhere else.”

“So, I might undo the latch and put the battery in the front.”
“Hey, how are you?”
“Good, buddy. How are you?”

“So, you had a lot of fishes?”
“Sorry?”
“Did you catch some fishes?”

“No, we don’t fish. We’re looking for a…”
“So, we’re looking for a missing person who went missing 14 years ago.”

“The theory is, he was meeting up with his mate.”
“I know that guy.”
“You know him?”

“Yeah. What can you tell us?”
“Well, the guy, he lost his memory.”
“Yeah, that’s why.”

“And he’s really a good guy.”
“Do you know where he went fishing?”
“Yes. In Saint‑François, Pierreville.”

“Pierreville.”
“Yeah, we went to Pierreville. We went to the boat ramp at Pierreville. We sonar’d up and down there.”
“You go straight to the seaway, St. Lawrence River. Over there, there’s a nice place to…”

“Yes.”
“And heading towards Nicolet or towards the river before Nicolet.”
“Yep.”

“Okay, well, Nicolet was our next stop—to go to the river at Nicolet.”
“He was down here.”
“Yes, down in the river there.”

“You go straight to the Saint‑Lawrence River and you will have a place over there to put your boat in.”
“Put your boat?”
“Yeah. Or on this road.”

“Yeah. Okay.”
“That looks like it.”
“Yeah, there’s a boat ramp there. Beautiful. That’s where we want to go.”

“And that’s where he went fishing, at the boat ramp?”
“Yes, I catch many fishes right here. Good fish. Yeah, big fish.”

“So have a good day.”
“Yeah. Thank you, sir. Lovely to meet you.”
“Take care.”

“You too, mate.”
The really good thing about that is, even though we weren’t in the right spot, we were able to speak to a local who knew the gentleman.
So that’s excellent.

“Maybe his friend is at Nicolet, where they go fishing, where they catch teeny tiny little fish, not big fish.”
[Music]

Whilst it is along the river, there are a few spots we need to check.
[Music]

[Music]
A chain has been there a long time.
“Starting route to 306 through St. John Baptist.”

“I think we still check it, but I think that’s a less probability. It won’t take long to drive the boat down.”
“And we really need to clear all along this roadway anyway. Again, a medical emergency could just as likely be off there. No guardrails, no nothing.”

“So, was this the one he talked about?”
“No. Further down.”
“Look at the dock. Dock’s up in the air.”

“Yeah, like almost like something’s under it jamming it all up.”
“Something’s holding it up.”
“All these trees, maybe.”

“Well, what’s behind the trees that are jamming up the whole river?”
“Yeah, it’s not going anywhere. I already tried it.”
“Oh, did you?”

There’s certainly a lot of debris under there.
“How did you go? Any luck at all?”

“I met with that guy again. He’s like, ‘If we go in there, she is going to cry, cry, cry. Let’s go.’”
“Okay.”

“There could be something significant under that dock.”
“Yep. Something’s jamming it all up.”

“Whoa. Whoa.”
“How dangerous is that? That’s as dangerous as it gets right there if you’re in a car and you can’t stop.”
“I mean, you slip—gone. Right in, right under the dock.”

Not deep at all this far away from the boat ramp.
I have no depth; I have no sounding whatsoever on this wall.
We may have banged it a little bit, but it was working, so we’re, what, 50 yards out?

4.5 ft.
I have no depth.
“I’m turning it off.”

“Yep, that’s bottom right there.”
7.2 ft, 8 ft.
Getting clearer on the sonar.

The road is right there though, so you can see cars going by.

No way he went missing in here with all this traffic of people living on their boats.
But we’ll finish it all the way to under the boat ramp.

“Come on. You gotta be here somewhere. Come on, buddy. Help us bring you home for your wife. Show us where you are.”

4.9 ft.
3.7 ft.
2.8 ft.

Everyone would have seen him here.
4.7 ft.

No depth. That’s clear.

“What, only English? American?”
“We’re looking for Ivon, Mr. Guvvin.”
“Yeah, that’s who he’s searching for.”

“We’re trying to find him in every river that he used to fish.”
“We did. We did all the way up past the pillars, but he went to the hardware store across the bridge, and then he went somewhere and told his friend that he would be back in 13 minutes to pick him up.”

Anywhere you think that he would go?
“So, my strong feeling is, if you have to find him, it’s in the Saint‑François River.”
“You think so?”

“Near Notre‑Dame.”
“Near the confluence where it comes into the St. Lawrence.”
“Yes.”

“But not in St. Lawrence. You think closer to Notre‑Dame Pierreville there, because where he was before he was lost…”
“Where we put the boat on the water at Pierreville, or the Saintes‑du‑Lac, there is a better place to put a boat in the water at Saint‑Gilac, near the Mr. B boat wharfs.”

“Okay. So maybe closer to Notre‑Dame. You think it’s possible that it’s a place where the water is deep?”
“Understood. You can have over 15–20 feet.”

“Okay.”
“So where were they saying for you?”

“So they’re saying that we come back to Pierreville and go to… not Pierreville, Notre‑Dame.”
“Yep. Okay.”

And that at the end of the river, if anything, he would go behind his house, in essence go straight west directly to the river and along the road, and that’s 13 minutes.
And there are locations there that he could have gone off the road, as well as he could have gone at a ramp.
“All of this is along it.”

“Yeah.”
“Okay. And then it comes out to the corner and would be the end of the earth, in essence.”

“But I don’t think that he can get in anywhere there that we know of.”
“But I think what we do is we put in the river here and then figure it out.”
“Yeah, right there.”

“Yeah. Awesome. Let’s go.”

He could come straight through here by accident, launching it.

So we’re only in 4 ft of water, which isn’t deep enough.
“I really want to go the other way.”
“Yeah, we gotta go along the road.”

“Yeah, look, you can definitely come down the bank all the way down everywhere there. You definitely can come down the bank here.”

“I have an object here. It’s big. That’s a bigger object. It’s got a shadow. I need to have a look at that.”
“I’ll turn around. That’s right in that corner there. Funny shape on the shadow.”

10 ft depth, straight off the edge.
10 ft. I need to go parallel.

“Oh yeah. That looks like a car to me. It’s in the water column. That looks like a car.”
“Oh, that’s a car with debris around it, I think.”
And there’s a T intersection.

You could just launch it through there.
“That’s a car. Maybe. That is a car. Upside down.”

“Yep. Right off that T intersection.”
“Yep. That’s it.”

“I’m on. That is 100% a car.”
“I’m on.”
“Well done, buddy.”Car tire in the wheel well.
Car upside down.

Roof, two tires sticking up.
It’s sticking up in the air a little bit, at an angle.
“Let me see if windows are open.”It’s sitting up in the air too much.
It was damaged pretty good.

“Yeah.”

“Okay, let’s dive that. Let’s go get our dive gear. Get into it.”
“Let’s do it.”
He’s waited long enough to come home.

“It’s time to get him.”

“Bonjour, I have a question for you.”
“Do you know him? Ivon?”

“We have found a car in the river. Can you bring my diver down to where it is?”
“Yeah. Can you help?”

“Okay. Don’t tell anyone until we know, okay? Yeah. ‘Cause if you say ‘my friend…’”
“Yeah. It’s my friend.”

“Well, I think we found him on the corner.”

“On the gun. Here we go.”

“We have a Jeep Cherokee, plate number GZP 655.”
“We have him. That’s him.”

“I came off it. The front of the vehicle is quite buried.”
“The two windows I got to are both up, and I got swept off, so I am going to go back down and check the other two windows.”
“Good work, Dan. Good work. Way to go.”

“So the back window is blown out. The two passenger‑side windows are up.”
“The driver’s window is down. The vehicle is in the mud, so I can’t actually get to the windscreen, but the window behind the driver’s seat is up as well.”

So we’ve got three intact windows, but the back is exposed to the elements.
As far as recovery goes, all four wheels are easily accessible.
I would recommend a crane: reach over, get the four lift points out, wrap netting around the back of the vehicle to try and contain as much as you can.

And once it’s up a little bit, then enclose the driver’s window so we don’t lose any remains.
But there is definitely a Jeep Cherokee down there.
And today we’ve brought our first Canadian home.

It’s an honor to be a part of this and a true blessing.
God bless. Be safe out there.
Cherish your loved ones. Let’s get him out of the water.

“Are you Sir William?”
“I am. How are you?”

“Good. You?”
“Nice to meet you. How are you, sir?”
“Good. You?”

“That’s his car. This is his license plate.”
“Okay. And it’s confirmed that that is his license plate—the GZP 655?”
“Yes.”

“And we know there are three windows up, back window’s blown out. The tires are up, so it’s flipped over.”
“Yeah, I had to dig down to get to the driver’s window because of the silt buildup, so it’s down.”

“Okay.”
“Couldn’t get to the windscreen at all. All the other windows are up, but the back window, as Bill said, is blown out.”

“Okay. Which way is it facing, Dan?”
“It is facing nose this way.”

“Nose this way?”
“Nose this way, and it’s on a slight angle like that.”

“Like that or that?”
“Like that.”

“But the four wheels are easily accessible, so it’s like this with the nose here.”
“It’s like that.”

“Just like that?”
“Just like that.”

“Okay. You seen a body or something?”
“No. Cannot see. You can see that much.”

“But all four tires are up, so if you guys bring a rotator in, if you don’t have a dive team, Dan can connect all the proper harnesses on the car to take it out, pick it up.”

“Yeah, we already called Quebec. That’s their territory.”
“We already advised them to bring a rotator—yeah, a big rotator—to take the car out of the water.”

“We were waiting for a call. They should be there.”
“We’re going to close the road. It’s going to be like a crime scene.”

“We’re going to ask you to stay on the side so you can talk with the detective of Quebec.”
“Understood.”

“And we’re going to do the circulation so people can pass around.”
“Okay. And we’re going to start like this.”
“Understood.”

“So the first image we saw was very odd, and so it was very different, but it had square formation.”
“And then we picked it up again and we saw an image in vehicle form, and then we picked it up upside down.”

“And we had again square—that’s what showed us. And then we got it to the point where we picked it up on live, which—this is a live view of it, you see?”

“Okay.”
“And then we were able to see with the live system the tires.”

“You’re tire, tire, and tire. The way that it’s sitting…”
“But it’s very, you know, we… this is the tire—tire and tire.”

“Do you have the picture of the license plate?”
“I do. This is the license plate here.”
“Oh, wow.”

“You want me to send it to you? On my cell phone?”
“Yes.”

“This is the document that we were working off of.”
“Okay.”

“My dog. Dog.”
“Yeah. I’m sorry.”

“Bringing lost loved ones home.”

“You had this information before?”
“It’s confirmed it.”

“Wait.”
“Yes, I tried to call you like seven times.”

“He left home on July the 6th, and today is the…”
“11 days?”
“11 months—sorry, 11 years and 4 days.”

“Yes.”
“Yeah.”

He came down in what looks like an accident.
He’s not far from the bank, so he didn’t go in fast.

“He was on a nervous breakdown, completely depressed.”
“He left many signs, but it was intentional.”
“Understood.”

I saw every shattered pane and every shadow in the waiting.
And every fear without a name.
I saw every crimson tail light flame.

Mhm.

After they bring the vehicle out of the river, can you come to my place, to come take a beer with us—with the family?
“Yes, we would love to.”
“We honor a beer… or a bloody Caesar.”

I will hold to you all along, and I will find you.

So, we’ve been here maybe for an hour.
A lot of people have come by.

It’s only a very small town, 3 or 4 thousand people, and everyone seems to have known Ivon.
The gentleman whose house we’re parked in at the moment has said, “Please come in, come in.”

Just outstanding people, and we’re very blessed to have them allow us to use their land.
They were friends with Ivon—both neighbors here were.
It’s so sad for them that their friend’s final resting place is close to their house, but it’s also a relief that they don’t have to wonder where he is anymore.

I will find you.
Oh, don’t fear the night.

I’m burning through.
Oh, I won’t sleep tonight.

It’s got two feet of mud on the side, on the top.
We’re going to have to lift; it’s going to be heavy.

Driver’s side window.
These three windows are closed.
This one is blown out.

It’s all going to be sitting in that much mud on the roof, so we’re going to be there.
If he had his seat belt on—which I can’t determine—it’s all going to be there.

“Okay.”
“Visibility: not much. As soon as you’re stirring up, I’ve got footage. I’m just working right now.”

“Yeah.”
“That took…”“It’s a little bit…”

“Open that.”

“Heat. Heat. Heat.”
“Vehicles.”

I’ll hold on tighter to you.
When all this is through.

And still I hold tight to you.
We’ll just head down, carry on, ‘cause what else can we do but get through?

And we’ll sing hallelujah—what is that to you right now?
But let’s talk in a way that could give us some faith to go around.
We’ll hold tight as we can when it’s better again, and that’ll sustain me for now.

I hold tighter to you, my friend, when we’re together again.
Together again.

When we’re together again.

And we’re together again.

When we’re together again.

I quiet just to hear the rain whisper softly that I might see you again.
Pull me down and watch the water rise.
Pull me out and bring me back into this life.

‘Cause I’m ready for a forest fire.
Forest fire.

I’m needing for…

Lines in the distant view, clouds of smoke and all the sky has turned from blue.
This pattern’s only used to evacuate.

‘Cause I’m ready for a forest fire.
Forest fire.