Inside the abandoned buildings under Lake Mead

96 men died working on the dam. They need to be remembered. Can imagine the unsafe working conditions they were in. Respect & Rest in Peace!

I got certified as a diver at Lake Mead in the early 70's when the water was full pool. Kind of ugly until you got below 100 feet deep and then the water cleared up. I dove from Mexico to the puget sound and I really loved it. I'm to worn out anymore, but fond memories.

My Father told a story about the family car breaking down in a town in the 1920s that is now under water. He was a little boy. My grandfather hitched a ride to Las Vegas to get parts. His mother Camped by the car for 2 days with the kids. They had plenty of food.

Wish all local news was this interesting! Great story...deserves its own hour or two.

Abandoned? I would be shocked if they were occupied.

The old photos are brilliant, they don't even look like they're taken under water.

Lake Mead swallowed up St. Thomas, a small Mormon community. I first heard of this city while attending a relatives funeral who was born in St. Thomas. I thought of the island of tourism. I was quickly corrected and told part of the story. Some years ago the lake was low enough that I was able to walk the old streets and view foundations. I spent some time looking for anything to take home. I found 3 buttons all matching. I showed a relative and was shown a handmade coat that was missing three of the 5 buttons. They were a direct match.I explained where I found them and showed pictures. The spot was between a church building and the home of my relatives.

The way things are going they will be able to hike down there soon!

*"Everyone knows Mirelurks dwell under Lake Mead."*

I grew up in Vegas spent my high school years at lake mead jumping off cliffs .. so sad to see the water level so low. My family can no longer dock their boat - bc the water level is so low. It’s unrecognizable. sad times!

My grandmother and grandfather lived in that town underneath the lake called St Thomas. It was so heartbreaking I heard when they had to leave forced to leave. Many many people did not want to leave that town there's more to say but the lake is almost dead and I've been around it for the last 35 years of my life. We've got to do something about water because without water we can't survive

My great grandpaents grew up in St Thomas. My grandmother was born in St Thomas she had nine siblings. The last name Burgess. Several families are related to us amazing to realize. They had to give up the house the cattle and everything and leave for this beautiful lake to be created. They moved to Overton logandale or Moapa valley to relocate. There were so many people that lost their lives creating and making this beautiful lake that we're losing day by day we were never forget everyone who came from the towns who helped make lake Mead and Hoover dam to what it was. Hard labor sweat blood pain and even death made those two beautiful sights known all over the world thank you and God bless

The people that worked in 120 degree heat building that dam did it for the money. They didn't give two shits about Hoover, Lake Mead, agriculture, or anything else. They worked they're ass off for themselves, just like we all do.  If doctors all of a sudden made only $10 an hour, they would drop their patients and look for a better job.

In a few months they should be able to film that underwater structure without getting wet. That's an incredible structure. The U. S. would never build anything like that again. They'd hire some outside contractor.

That tunnel made me claustrophobic just watching the video!

Abandoned?I don’t know… Some paint, throw pillows… A few flowers…

Did you really have to specify "abandoned" if it's underwater?

My husband and I stayed at the Hoover dam lodge nearby and they had a lot of photos and objects from when they built the dam it was interesting to see

Back in 1988 I was in Thousand Oaks California and there was a drought on the, and there was a water restriction on, and it meant that no one aloud to water their lawn I’m not sure if the street grass was still being watered. I was also told that Southern California takes it water from Northern California, and that Southern California was built on desert land and that it wouldn’t be able to exist with out the water from Northern California. One thing I really remember was how much space there was in Thousand Oaks I could walk up the hills in the morning and as far as the eye could see it was all empty land with no buildings or houses for miles around, it was beautiful to see. You were lucky to see the odd light bulb shaped street with just 8 or so houses in the middle of no where and it was a rare sight. But now if I look on Google earth all the empty spaces I saw are now full up with houses estates, and some how it doesn’t look so good now, the Southern California I once new with all of it’s very spacious land with business and houses around the time of the first Desert War with Bush Senior is just a memory now. Great times with great people made an awesome visit to Southern California…😎

It's 5 years later now, the lake continues to drop.. It should be a pretty shallow dive now.