[jumploops]

> For the first case I kept wondering why they needed so much complicated technology.

"It's always in the last place I looked"

I think we're seeing the first few guesses for where the car might be, but according to the author, there was a 40km distance between the cabin and the girlfriend's town.

Hindsight is 20/20, but I wouldn't put it past the author to commit beyond 3 search sites, some of which may require deeper and larger bodies of water (like the second investigation did).

[flaminHotSpeedo]

Also by my interpretation it sounds like the author welcomed the excuse for a project