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I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

Introduction

I didn’t know it back then but it all started while I was reading Hacker News in February 2019 and stumbled upon a story called “The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans”. That phone call was the starting point of the most interesting adventure I’ve ever had, and it lead to us solving two missing person cold cases, which had been unsolved for 9 and 15 years. This story is written based on my notes, photos, videos, GPS logs, sonar images, and other digital footprints.

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