Adventures with Purpose

We are Adventures With Purpose (AWP) - a Search & Recovery Dive Team dedicated to helping families of missing loved ones.

Because of your amazing support: 24 Missing Person Cold Cases Have Been Solved since 2019, providing answers to families looking for their lost loved one.

Your support, through watching our documentaries, making purchases and donations, make it possible for us to provide this FREE Service to Families."

Some of the videos are not the actual find/recovery videos but searches; however, if there are multiple ones, they're listed on the video itself. For example, Ralph Brown has 9 episodes, the 9th being find/recovery.

So here is a link to the latest, Kiely Rodni - you may have heard about it on the news

If you go to the 1 hour mark on this one, then watch, you'll get to how they finally find her after some frustrating, fruitless searches - an 'amazing' find, IMO.

A podcast I watch posted a link to one of AWP's latest cases (missing person Kiely Rodni) & I promptly binged all their 'solves', it was so fascinating. They use sonar to find people missing with their vehicles ... if the vehicles never show up, there is a good probability they're in the water somewhere. They're purpose is to find the WHERE and they've been able to do that from cases 30 years old to the most recent case of Kiely Rondi, missing since August 16 ... they found her in an area that had already been searched.

The actual dive scenes are hard to see because they're diving in what amounts to "chocolate milk" a lot of the time; however, when they are preparing for the dive or coming up with a license plate, that's the more interesting film. These guys are experts at 'recovery' as well & if the agency in charge of the case wants them to do the recovery (vehicle hook up, etc.) they will. If the local Fire/LE dive teams are doing the recovery, they'll stay on scene to offer advice/assistance if needed. Doug Bishop ran a towing company for years, so he's an expert at hooking up vehicles. If remains are inside, vehicle recovery process is crucial, not to spill any contents. The families are AWP's primary concern - finding loved ones for them and giving them some answers, so they can move forward.

I have no connection to AWP other than being a recent fan of their mission. This is not meant as an 'ad' for AWP, but if you want to support them, it's a worthy cause. Their services are FREE to family/law enforcement.

Sorry the links weren’t “live” in the post - here they are:

AWP Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNTuVMv2WRVnYcgJx7DjNPQ

How We FOUND Kiely Rodni: MURDER or ACCIDENT?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPwnDyW26gk

SOLVED: Missing 12-months Underwater (Ralph Brown) DANGEROUS RECOVERY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NeoHeHCAAw

SOLVED: Missing 10-months Underwater (Margaret “Jan” Shupe Smith)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a3w-A0NUIg

I’ve been watching them for a bit now, I really think they do a great job searching and producing a very watchable show.

Impressive, actually.

They do get a bit too forced with emotion on occasion but overall an A+ show.

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