In 2001, Roberta Oster Sachs, an NBC producer working for Discovery Channel, contacted Brad Dimock about producing a special. The show would be about Sunk Without a Sound and the tale of not only Glen and Bessie Hyde, but that of Dimock's retracing of the perilous journey with his wife. The only time both Dimock and the TV team could rendezvous to shoot the program in Grand Canyon was almost immediately--two weeks hence. Dimock had loaned his replica scow to a museum in Jackson, Wyoming, where it had twice been hit by wayward cars. A team raced north to retrieve it and Dimock and friends repaired it, while the location team gathered the permits and equipment for filming on the Hualapai Indian Reservation in lower Grand Canyon.

Brad's wife Jeri Ledbetter agreed to run the boat with Brad one more time, and the team descended the long dirt road at Diamond Creek to the bottom of Grand Canyon. With two film crews, Oster and an interviewer, three motor support boats, and Dimock and Ledbetter aboard the scow, the trip launched for three days of filming. For an hour on the second day, a helicopter raced back and forth above them with a cameraman dangling from the side. All things considered, the trip went off smoothly, and the scow failed to kill its passengers. The footage is amazing.

Post-filming production did not go nearly as smoothly. With the original air-date scheduled for mid-September, 2001, the NBC team was in the midst of assembling the show at their New York City headquarters when September 11 struck. Dust was still settling when the studio was evacuated indefinitely for anthrax. Shortly after that, Roberta Oster Sachs resigned (can't blame her), moved to Boston, and the show eddied out.

The show was finally completed in 2002 by a new producer, Annette Freeman. Jacob Seligmann was comissioned to composed an original score, and the completed show was handed over to Discovery Channel, where it was once again lost. But good things die hard, and in the fall of 2002, the show popped up on the schedule for December 5. This time it aired without a hitch and we have received word from around the country from folks who loved the show. So far, Discovery Channel has not released the show as a video. If you would like to help prod them, click here and request a video of Grand Canyon Mystery, December 5 2002 and February 13, 2003.We will post further information here when the video becomes available or more screenings are announced.