Lake Mead

Lake Mead is a lake that serves as the primary source of pure non-irradiated water to the Mojave Wasteland.

Layout
The lake bed is mostly sand and rocks with the odd bit of seaweed here and there. There are fish in the lake as well (although they cannot be interacted with). On the lake bed, a crashed B-29 airplane can be found, which the Courier is asked to bring up to the surface by the Boomers during the quest Volare!.

There is also an underwater cave southeast of the B-29, the Lake Mead cave (not to be confused with the Camp Guardian caves). Directly behind the plane lies a partially sunken ship resembling a tugboat, red in color, which has some gore bags coming out of a hole in the hull. Directly below this ship is the cave.

Past the invisible walls, the lake becomes irradiated.

Appearances
Lake Mead appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes

 * Lake Mead is based on the real world Lake Mead, formed by the Hoover Dam.
 * The crashed B-29 is a reference to a real airplane, a modified Boeing B-29 Superfortress, that crashed into the waters of Lake Mead while performing atmospheric research on July 21, 1948.
 * Howard Hughes, on whom character Robert House is based, also crashed a Sikorsky S-43 aircraft into Lake Mead on May 17, 1943.

Bugs

 * There are a few hollow, floating, underwater rocks south-east of the Boulder Beach campground docks.
 * When fast traveling to Lake Mead (when you spawn on the boat wreckage), you can often see the crashed B-29, floating off in the distance by the dock. However, when you approach it, it's gone, per the Boomer's quest.

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