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>> yeah. ive seen those in real life. >> reporter: these are the most dangerous shafts to search, vertical ones that go straight down into a crumbling abyss. >> originally we were dropping mine shafts. we were physically going down the shaft. we would rig the ropes, rappel in, check it, clear it. and move on. but it became not feasible with the amount of mines we had to search. >> reporter: so they outfitted buckets with cameras. it sped up the process, to be sure, but with hundreds of mines to ...

As much desert rat as the gold miners who used to roam the mojave a century ago. but instead of a pick axe and a mule, hes outfitted with gps and a hummer. >> ive been down every one of these mines, including the one were standing in front of right now. i know how deep they are. i know whats inside em. >> when other kids were playing little league billings was hanging off a rope catching rattlers. by the time he was an adult billings was traveling the globe, exploring the underworld. but the moj...

Break. remember that trip chris took with a friend to look at mines? turns out, chriss friend had taken pictures. detectives obtained the photos, and seven weeks into the search showed them to "cave doug." >> without skippin a beat, mr. billings almost immediately began identifying each photograph and we began plotting them on the topographical map. >> the first picture they showed me was the mine across here. immediately recognized the tower. they showed the shaft, going down the shaft. i recog...

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Expensive search that lasted for weeks and weeks, they decided this was it. saturday, august 16, 2014, would be the last day of the search. >> we felt we had one more shot at it. >> reporter: in the early evening they headed for the very last mine on their list. >> and as nighttime falls out there, you dont want anybody out there still, so we began to really collect our thoughts and decide, any minute now we need to start calling the search. >> a member of the san bernardino cave rescue team, a ...