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TSAR worked with San Bernardino County Search & Rescue to clear this copper mine in the Mojave Desert. This mine is fairly new - it has a metal headframe (in the background) and some of the timbers inside have Home Depot price tags on them. |
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Clearing a gold mine. This shaft was 150' deep and had been "plugged" at that depth with a large boulder. The deepest shaft we cleared on this search for April Pitzer was over 300' straight down. |
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Here is a close up of us working with our drop-down camera to clear another mine. We were able to get past two cave-ins and into a "room" about 75' down. There appeared to be a table with a bottle on it. However, we weren't able to get a good look and it was too dangerous for personnel to go down inside. |
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An high-resolution digital photo taken from an airplane over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. These photos are reviewed on a computer at high-magnification to identify potential ground search targets. |
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Searchers on a ground search of the Donnell Vista area looking for Nita Mayo. |
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Using a side-scan sonar while searching Big Bear Lake with members of Texas Equusearch. |
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Taking high-resolution digital photos from the air allows a large area to be "searched" for evidence. Items such as this plastic bag can easily be identified in the photos. | |
