Volunteer divers looking over the weekend for underwater vehicles in South Florida in an effort to solve missing persons cases found something unexpected: roughly 30 cars submerged under a single lake, according to the police.
They were likely dumped there decades ago by people hoping to rid themselves of a car because of its connection to a crime, the search teams said.
“That’s the highest we’ve ever found in a lake,” said Ken Fleming, the founder of Recon Dive Recovery, one of the groups involved in the search.
Recon Dive employs divers and special equipment such as sonar to find missing people and cars underwater.
The Doral Police Department said in a statement on Monday that it was investigating the submerged vehicles, and that dive teams from multiple agencies had been dispatched to extract them.
Persons:
“, ”, Ken Fleming
Organizations:
Miami International Airport, Doral Police Department
Locations:
South Florida, Miami, Doral