GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Two independent divers say they gave police a vital tip to help locate a missing Greensboro man. Adam Brown and Jeremy Sides each have their own robust social media followings but are both a part of the nonprofit Rapid Compassion Collective. The nonprofit is focused on helping families with missing loved ones by searching lakes, ponds and rivers with their own equipment. They've seen a lot in their time searching for dozens of different people, but this case was different. "They were holding on to hope he was out there somewhere alive," Brown said. Brown is talking about the family of Laequan Little, who was reported missing on Dec. 31. His family has maintained since reporting him missing that he wouldn't disappear on his own and this behavior wasn't like him. Brown and Sides tried to help the family hold on to hope by getting to work on their case after Little's mom reached out to them. "We knew we were only a six-hour drive away, so we said ... 'We'll be there as soon as we can,'" Sides said. They searched other bodies of water like Oak Hollow Lake. As more details emerged, they had a pretty good idea of where Little and his car could be. "We knew that he was last seen there, and we knew where he was going, so if we have that kind of information, that's the best information we can get because we have a path," Sides said. Little's last known location was an apartment complex in the 1400 block of Bridford Parkway.  Someone also shared the video with the team showing a car that looked like Little's black Honda Civic driving through the parking lot, jumping the curb and stopping near the pond. "We came out last Monday with a simple sonar device that pretty much gives us the depth, and we found it was seven feet," Brown said. That's deep enough to believe a car could be under the water. "It wasn't until days later when I reviewed the scans that we saw an image that resembled a vehicle ... With that and the Ring doorbell video we saw, everything just went together, and we were almost certain," Brown said. The pair came back last weekend and threw an underwater drone in the pond to see what they could find. Five minutes later, they saw a black Honda Civic that police would eventually confirm was Little's. They called police Monday morning and a team of underwater searchers was there a few hours later and recovered the car along with Little's body. "It's definitely bittersweet ... We're glad the family has answers ... Everyone was hoping it was different circumstances and he was alive and left somewhere," Brown said.