1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,800 On this episode of MythBusters, anyone for table tennis? 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:13,360 Adam and Jamie plunged to new depths when they tried to salvage a sunken sailboat in 3 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:17,120 the silliest of fashions. 4 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,080 Just how many ping pong balls would it take to float your boat? 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:25,240 And how many balloons before you lose your kid at the carnival? 6 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:28,000 I think my arm is about to be ripped out of its socket. 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Welcome to the floatathon. 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Who are the MythBusters? 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,500 Is my missing an eyebrow? 10 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:36,500 Adam Savage. 11 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:39,500 I reject your reality and substitute my own. 12 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:41,000 And Jamie Heineman. 13 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Quack, damn you. 14 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,000 I wouldn't say Jamie's an evil genius. 15 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Between them more than 30 years special effects experience. 16 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 When will the fun ever stop? 17 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,000 They don't just tell the myths, they put them to the test. 18 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:09,000 What happens if your ship catches on fire and sinks in the harbor? 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Can you bring it back from the bottom? 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:22,000 And how about if all you have on hand are ping pong balls? 21 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Well, Jamie, your years as a captain of a ship down in the Caribbean is going to serve 22 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,000 for this myth, ping pong ball salvage. 23 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Yeah, it actually seems pretty familiar to me because in those days I formed a salvage 24 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:40,600 company and we actually raised a sunken sailboat using garbage bags just by filling one bag 25 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:41,600 up at a time. 26 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:45,920 This is actually pretty similar except we're going to be using thousands and thousands 27 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:47,500 of ping pong balls to do it. 28 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:49,000 These, to raise a ship? 29 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Yeah. 30 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Off the bottom of the ocean? 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,000 That's the myth. 32 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,760 Salvage companies use large flotation bags which are usually filled with air while on 33 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:00,000 the ocean floor. 34 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:08,000 A slightly different technique was used to raise a piece of Titanic's hull in 1998. 35 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:15,000 The big piece weighed in at 20 tons and took five giant bags to lift, each filled with 36 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,000 6,000 gallons of lightweight propane. 37 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:25,920 That in the 1940s, Donald Duck and his nephews had the comical idea of using ping pong balls 38 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:27,500 for underwater salvage. 39 00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:32,000 Now the duck has made its way into the Mythbusters Hall of Fame. 40 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,760 You know, one of the first questions that comes to my mind, Jamie, is how much buoyancy 41 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:42,000 does a ping pong ball have and actually how much space a whole bunch of ping pong balls 42 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 occupies? 43 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Huh. 44 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:51,760 What he's trying to say is they need to know some numbers before they can even consider 45 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,320 this wacky myth. 46 00:02:54,320 --> 00:03:00,280 Like precisely how many ping pong balls will lift how much weight in water? 47 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,000 I'm going to zero out my digital scale. 48 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,320 Then I'm going to fill this top cup with exactly one pound of buckshot and then see how many 49 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:13,440 ping pong balls it takes to negate that one pound of buckshot. 50 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:19,280 If it takes too many balls, this myth may have to remain in the realm of fantasy. 51 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,840 Jamie's skeptical about Adam's rig. 52 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,440 Are we going to get like a 30 foot long tong for the real thing? 53 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,120 It's actually, it takes a fair amount of force to push it down there. 54 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,320 The math says 15 balls. 55 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:32,320 So what's the problem? 56 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:33,320 You don't believe the math? 57 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,440 Well, we never believe the math on Mythbusters. 58 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:37,520 Ah, no. 59 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,440 That's great, Adam. 60 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,360 I'll see you later. 61 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,080 Let me know when you get that all worked out. 62 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,840 Luckily, Adam is less fragile than his rig. 63 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:54,120 He resets the experiment and tries again. 64 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:59,360 When the cup containing the ping pong balls floats upwards, he has his answer. 65 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:00,960 That actually confirms my math. 66 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:06,400 I think that was exactly 15 balls to eliminate a pound of weight. 67 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,760 Here comes that sinking feeling. 68 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,680 That's a lot of balls for a lot of pounds. 69 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:17,360 Step number two is designed to find out just how many ping pong balls will fit into a confined 70 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,800 space. 71 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,560 Adam adopts a questionable scientific method. 72 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:32,320 Please, whatever you do, don't try this at home. 73 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:37,360 Returning to his senses, he uses the fish tank to find out how efficiently ping pong 74 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,080 balls pack together. 75 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,640 So I've got just about 300 balls in here. 76 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,160 My space is... 77 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,720 Adam crunches the numbers and they don't look pretty. 78 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:53,360 51%, 51% packing efficiency. 79 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:54,720 That's crappy. 80 00:04:54,720 --> 00:05:00,020 What that means is that there's all this space between the balls where they can't go right 81 00:05:00,020 --> 00:05:06,680 up next to each other because of the fact that spheres are not very good at stacking 82 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,040 up against each other. 83 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,220 So far so bad. 84 00:05:11,220 --> 00:05:17,600 Is this myth sunk before it's even begun? 85 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:23,600 While Adam and Jamie are getting bogged down, the build team are going up, up and away. 86 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,800 I love blowing these balloons up. 87 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:27,800 It's fun. 88 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:29,800 They can get a job at the carnival. 89 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,360 I have too many teeth. 90 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:32,520 Yeah, you do. 91 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:39,000 Scotty, Tori and Carrie may look like they're having fun, but this is what they call work. 92 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,920 That's the way this is going to go today. 93 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:47,440 They're testing a myth that has launched a thousand Hollywood fairground gags. 94 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,120 Mr. Bean demonstrates the classic routine. 95 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,840 Kid begins to cry. 96 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:55,800 Parent caves in. 97 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,240 Kid gets handed a bunch of balloons. 98 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:05,200 Distracted parent looks away. 99 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,880 Kid drifts off into the wild blue yonder. 100 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:13,160 But have you ever wondered if you really did want to float little Elmer off into the next 101 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,560 county how many party balloons it would take? 102 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,720 The Mythbusters build team is about to find out. 103 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:25,120 They'll need a willing kid and a whole bunch of balloons. 104 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,080 But will that bunch be implausibly large? 105 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:34,680 First up, they find out how much weight 10 balloons of the standard 11-inch party variety 106 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:35,680 can lift. 107 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,200 Here's 10 balloons. 108 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:38,960 There's 10 there, okay. 109 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:43,800 The balloons lift 100 grams of easy-to-attach paper clips. 110 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:49,920 And converting from metric, it should take 46 balloons to lift one pound. 111 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:51,600 Let's try to get a really skinny kid. 112 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,600 Yeah, there you go. 113 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:54,880 How about a cute one? 114 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,400 Well, it looks like three balloons won't fly you away. 115 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:02,600 Don't follow his example, but the Mythbusters sound man has volunteered the flying services 116 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,000 of his intrepid daughter, Maddie. 117 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Grab a scale. 118 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Maddie. 119 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,800 Let's see how heavy you are. 120 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:11,800 About 40. 121 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:13,800 44 pounds. 122 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:14,800 Yeah. 123 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,800 Maddie, you want to fly away on balloons? 124 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:18,800 Up in the air? 125 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:19,800 Yeah. 126 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,800 Are you afraid of heights? 127 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:22,800 Nah. 128 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:23,800 Good. 129 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,800 That's gonna be you. 130 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,600 Maddie may well scream. 131 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:33,200 She's gonna be holding on to the biggest bunch of balloons she's ever likely to see. 132 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:38,600 Oh my God, we're coming up with 2,070 balloons. 133 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,600 And we know we're probably gonna pop about a thousand of them. 134 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,600 Yeah, that's really neat to get a lot of balloons. 135 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:50,400 Somewhere out there is an unsuspecting party store owner, and the Mythbusters builders 136 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,400 are about to make his day. 137 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,400 All right, let's go shopping. 138 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:55,400 All right, let's go. 139 00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:06,300 Adam can pull some neat stunts with ping pong balls, but can he and Janie really use them 140 00:08:06,300 --> 00:08:08,700 to salvage a sunken boat? 141 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:13,600 Now the essential question for us in testing this myth is, what boat do we raise off the 142 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:14,600 ocean floor? 143 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:20,400 Well, we did do a thing on a previous experiment with a tug boat that we dubbed the Nitanic. 144 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:21,400 A Nitanic? 145 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,400 That's perfect. 146 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:29,000 Previously on Mythbusters, the guys set out to scuttle the Mythtanic, and with it, the 147 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,800 myth that a sinking ship will suck you under. 148 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:34,400 Remember this ship? 149 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:36,200 The Mythtanic. 150 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:42,200 Adam rates the episode as his scariest piece of mythbusting so far. 151 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:47,600 The first time this thing started to go under, it went bow first, and the back end was really 152 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:48,600 lurching. 153 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:49,600 Something fierce. 154 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,200 And I just didn't want to get caught under any part of it. 155 00:08:53,200 --> 00:09:00,900 Surprised by the sea's rapid inflow, Adam bails out early and misses his chance. 156 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:04,400 The second time it was a lot more gentle, and it started rolling kind of like this, and 157 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:10,800 I sort of sat on the windows of the wheelhouse here and went right under. 158 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:18,000 Mythtanic went under, Adam floated, the myth was safely busted. 159 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Now the guys plan to sink Mythtanic again to see if they can bring her back to the surface 160 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,200 using only ping pong balls. 161 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,000 It all depends on how much Mythtanic weighs. 162 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Now do you remember anything about how much it actually weighed? 163 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 I don't have a clue, you know, we'll have to get a crane out here because I think they 164 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:41,900 typically come with scales on them, and we can find out pretty quick. 165 00:09:41,900 --> 00:09:48,600 They know that 15 ping pong balls offset one pound of weight underwater. 166 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:53,400 Mythtanic won't be sunk until the guys figure out how many balls they'll need to get her 167 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:54,400 back. 168 00:09:54,400 --> 00:10:04,600 Minus the rigging, which is 3300 pounds roughly, I came up with just under 28,000 pounds. 169 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:11,200 Well Jimmy, the Mythtanic tops out at just under 28,000 pounds, about 14 tons, which 170 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:18,700 by my calculations would take about just under 400,000 ping pong balls to lift it out of 171 00:10:18,700 --> 00:10:19,700 the water. 172 00:10:19,700 --> 00:10:26,000 It's an implausible amount, so Mythtanic is abandoned and it's back to the drawing board. 173 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,640 What about your average Joe? 174 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:32,800 I think we look towards this myth as being something we can scale down to say a fiberglass 175 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:34,200 sailboat. 176 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:39,520 Let's say your average Joe lost his fiberglass sailboat in shallow coastal waters and happened 177 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:43,120 to be a former table tennis star and has a few dozen thousand ping pong balls lying 178 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:44,120 around. 179 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,040 Could he salvage the boat from, let's say, 30 to 35 feet of water? 180 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:52,200 A small sailboat weighs about 3500 pounds. 181 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:57,680 It'll take just over 50,000 balls to make it neutrally buoyant, probably 60,000 to raise 182 00:10:57,680 --> 00:10:59,080 it from the bottom of the ocean. 183 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,240 That's a small sailboat. 184 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:04,640 That's a small sailboat, like a 25 footer or something like that. 185 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,640 And that's still about $25,000 worth of ping pong balls, right? 186 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:14,720 Yeah, 50 cents at base, it's still a hell of a lot of dough worth of ping pong balls. 187 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:19,600 But it's a lot more approachable than 600,000 of them. 188 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:24,960 The guys don't want to burn the budget, but the next big question is, can ping pong balls 189 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,720 take the heat at 35 feet? 190 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,680 Would they hold up under the pressure? 191 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:30,880 Maybe we should test it first. 192 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:36,560 We wouldn't want to set up this whole rig and find out that they only go down 10 feet. 193 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:37,560 That would be bad. 194 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:46,640 Jamie designs a pressure chamber to simulate what will happen to the ping pong balls 35 195 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:48,200 feet underwater. 196 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:53,520 If they crack under the higher pressure, this myth is busted before the guys even get their 197 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:54,520 feet wet. 198 00:11:54,520 --> 00:12:00,400 What we're doing now is we're making a pressure vessel and with around 100 psi or so, which 199 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,640 we'd like to bring it up to, that's something sort of special. 200 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:08,000 So we've got to custom make something and hopefully we won't hurt anybody. 201 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:13,880 In a previous episode of MythBusters, the boys toyed around with pressure and its effects 202 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:15,360 on breast implants. 203 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,840 Look at that, it's a thing of beauty. 204 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:22,400 Jamie decided to see if they would compress under the high pressure conditions of deep 205 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,440 sea diving. 206 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,120 He didn't figure on explosive results. 207 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:31,480 We had a seal blow. 208 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,360 Are you guys alright? 209 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:39,720 Now the guys are swapping breast implants for ping pong balls, but the danger is just 210 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:40,720 the same. 211 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,200 Never let it be said that Jamie and I don't take high pressure seriously. 212 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,200 So we're going to take this down to one atmosphere, right? 213 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,240 No, we'll take it all the way to the bottom of the ocean. 214 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:50,240 Cool. 215 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,840 A blast screen is put in place in case of an explosion. 216 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:54,840 You ready? 217 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:55,840 I'm ready. 218 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:56,840 You ready? 219 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:57,840 I'm ready. 220 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,080 It's time for the big squeeze. 221 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:01,720 We're at 30 psi. 222 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:02,880 That's two atmospheres. 223 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:04,280 No, that's one. 224 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:06,800 But 30 psi is two atmospheres. 225 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:11,000 Yeah, but they weren't made in outer space. 226 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,200 So they were made at one atmosphere, so we've only added one atmosphere. 227 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,040 Oh, okay, I see. 228 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,400 So let's go to 45. 229 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:23,520 45 pounds per square inch means adding two atmospheres of pressure. 230 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:27,120 That's what the balls would face over 60 feet underwater. 231 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:28,960 I'm just going to keep on going. 232 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:29,960 Okay. 233 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,480 If you hear a big boom, just dive. 234 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:36,800 Boom sends the ping pong balls deeper and deeper until... 235 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:37,800 Whoa! 236 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:38,800 I heard that. 237 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:39,800 That was it about 60. 238 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:45,160 Well, so they didn't burst until 60 psi. 239 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,960 That's four atmospheres. 240 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,360 That's equivalent to 90 feet under the water. 241 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:53,720 The distance we're thinking of, about 30 feet, doesn't seem like these ping pong balls will 242 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:55,600 crush it all down there. 243 00:13:55,600 --> 00:14:02,440 Now that they know pressure won't be a problem, the guys ship in 60,000 ping pong balls. 244 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:04,480 But there's one remaining hurdle. 245 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:10,640 How on earth do they get so many balls down to a sunken boat? 246 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:14,600 We've thought about mechanical means, huge chains that pulled balls down. 247 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,680 Like tens or hundreds of thousands of ping pong balls. 248 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:20,040 We've also thought of these huge bellows pumps. 249 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:23,440 We don't want to take them down a bag at a time with scuba. 250 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,840 Valve opens, ping pong balls come in, valve closes, ping pong balls shove out. 251 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:31,640 I mean, the amount of custom, like, building we've been pondering here is huge. 252 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,240 The guys are stuck at the drawing board. 253 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:39,120 As ideas run dry, Adam starts to crack up. 254 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,120 Oh, wow! 255 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:45,200 Do you want to hold these? 256 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:46,200 No. 257 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:51,040 Concerned for Adam's mental well-being, Jamie makes a practical suggestion. 258 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:57,680 One of the first things that I think we should do is actually try, in a scale experiment, 259 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:02,360 to see if a flow of water will carry these with them. 260 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:06,360 We might just get away with having a tube going down into the boat. 261 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:10,680 Gravity takes the water down and maybe it will pull some of these ping pong balls with 262 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:11,680 it. 263 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:15,680 Then we could just sit there and dump them in without having to enclose and pressurize 264 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:16,680 the system. 265 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,640 It's the simplest of builds. 266 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:23,200 Adam suspects it may be too simple. 267 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:30,960 Like a funnel and a tube and just add water, gravity and ping pong balls. 268 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,720 They're coming out so far so good. 269 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:36,840 So far so good. 270 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,200 Simple but brilliant. 271 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:44,520 A dispensing rig to dispatch ping pong balls down to Davy Jones' locker. 272 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:51,280 That is going to save us so much work that this actually works in a large scale. 273 00:15:51,280 --> 00:16:04,480 The mythbusters are no strangers to unpowered flight. 274 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:09,960 When testing the myth of the launch air balloonist, Adam took to the air and took his life in 275 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:16,480 his hands. 276 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:25,480 Until they know you can fly beneath weather balloons if you have enough. 277 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:31,280 But could a bunch of party balloons really carry a kid away from a carnival? 278 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,560 The mythbusters builders are on the case. 279 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:43,680 At SF Party they need at least 2,000 balloons, a stack of helium and a speed lesson in tying. 280 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:51,000 So you bring 2 balloons of the same size and you tie them into each other. 281 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,960 If Feliciano had a dollar for every balloon he's tied, well he wouldn't be tying balloons 282 00:16:55,960 --> 00:17:06,000 anymore. 283 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,840 Feliciano reveals the secret of making really big bunches of balloons. 284 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:14,560 You've got to have columns, lots and lots of columns. 285 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,680 Alright, so you can look at them. 286 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:18,680 Like that? 287 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:19,680 Great. 288 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,680 You know, I don't usually admit this in public but I used to be a face painting clown. 289 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:29,680 Oh, you know how to tie little balloon animals? 290 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:30,680 Maybe. 291 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,680 Dog with a very long tail. 292 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:34,680 Hi. 293 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:35,680 Bye bye. 294 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:42,200 Don't have too much fun in here. 295 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:43,200 We'll try. 296 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,200 I think he just saved us a ton of time. 297 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,720 Originally I had imagined that we were going to tie all these balloons to single strings, 298 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,240 each balloon having a string going down to a point. 299 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:52,920 But now what we're going to do is we're going to build columns. 300 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:56,960 We're going to make columns of balloons, 250 and then we'll tie those together down to 301 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:57,960 the kid. 302 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:00,120 So it's going to save us a lot of time. 303 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:03,320 Time could really burst their bubble on this experiment. 304 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:07,440 How long does it take to inflate 2,000 balloons? 305 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,640 Can you even do it in a day? 306 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,640 Time for a time trial. 307 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,160 Get set, go. 308 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:18,880 25 balloons, three sets of hands. 309 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:19,880 This is easy. 310 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:24,280 The clock is ticking and the team is pumped. 311 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,520 Come on Scotty. 312 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,320 Two minutes, 20 seconds. 313 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,120 For 25 balloons? 314 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:32,120 Okay. 315 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:33,120 That's 20 seconds. 316 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:34,120 That was a tough one. 317 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:37,880 So, say 2,500 balloons means how long? 318 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,080 I mean we've got 25. 319 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,080 So that's 2. 320 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:43,080 25. 321 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,160 2,500 times 2. 322 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,160 That's 1,000 times 2.2. 323 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,160 Wait, no, wait, wait. 324 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:50,160 Okay. 325 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:51,600 I can't listen to you guys right now. 326 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:52,680 I got two women. 327 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:53,680 I'm distracted. 328 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:54,680 I mean, I... 329 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:55,680 No. 330 00:18:55,680 --> 00:19:02,080 Eventually they called a rocket scientist and she came up with just under a hundred 331 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:03,040 or four hours. 332 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,040 I used to be a teacher and the kids are going to be like, oh my God, she can't even do math 333 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:08,040 anymore. 334 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:12,640 I ain't never been one for book learning. 335 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,400 Math will soon be the least of their worries. 336 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:19,640 Four hours is the absolute minimum inflation time. 337 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,240 And they've only got one day to pull this off. 338 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,240 It's really not going to be that bad. 339 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:30,160 Been the last words. 340 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:34,600 They're better to test the fairground balloon myth than an abandoned aircraft hangar. 341 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,320 We don't have much time, guys. 342 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:39,200 We've got our balloons, we've got our helium tanks and we don't have much time. 343 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:43,080 We have to blow up 2,000 balloons and get a four-year-old off the ground by the end 344 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,080 of today. 345 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,440 Fearless stunt kid Maddie is bubbling over with excitement. 346 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,120 Yay, bubbles. 347 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:51,120 We have bubbles. 348 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:53,120 We're in luck. 349 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:58,440 2,000 balloons should send Maddie on her maiden flight. 350 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:02,560 So we were wondering if the kid were to get carried away by balloons, where would they 351 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:03,960 end up? 352 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,640 So we've attached a little note to our balloons to see how far they go. 353 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,680 Somebody get some, they'll call us. 354 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:12,680 Ready Maddie? 355 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:17,680 Let it go. 356 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:22,560 If the power of wishful thinking counts for anything, there'll be news of those balloons 357 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:24,440 again someday. 358 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:31,440 The team makes like they're getting ready for the world's biggest carnival. 359 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,440 Oh, look. 360 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:39,240 You've got big, bumbly manhams. 361 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,800 This balloon business is child's play. 362 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,800 Oh my God. 363 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:51,760 So we're doing all right. 364 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:52,760 We're golden. 365 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,320 All right, what number are we at? 366 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,800 This is going to be 1,900. 367 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:03,320 They're ahead of schedule and with a little luck ahead of the game in terms of lift. 368 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,240 Time for a reality check. 369 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,760 What do you got down there, Carrie? 370 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:12,760 To avoid undue wear and tear on Maddie, they'll use a stunt stunt kid. 371 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:13,760 Isn't she cute? 372 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,280 She is the exact weight as Maddie. 373 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,080 I made her yesterday. 374 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,760 They'll hook sandbag Maddie onto the balloons. 375 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,120 This is fantastic. 376 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:25,520 This is pulling me up so hard. 377 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:29,480 We figured that it would hold up about 10 grams per balloon. 378 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,680 I think we've got more lifts than that. 379 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,360 I think my arm is about to be ripped out of its socket. 380 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:37,360 It's an impressive bunch. 381 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:40,560 But how much lift do they really have? 382 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:41,560 Uh-oh. 383 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,360 Wow, we're not getting lifts. 384 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:48,560 1,900 balloons only cancel out about half the dummy's weight. 385 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,640 Oh, you're kidding me. 386 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:51,640 She's still 20 pounds. 387 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,800 God, I thought we were getting towards the end. 388 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,640 All their lofty calculations have been slapped down by gravity. 389 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,480 Are we sure we counted right on the balloons? 390 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:11,480 And Maddie's magical mystery flight is starting to look like an impossible dream. 391 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:17,640 Jamie's dispensing rig is a neat way of shipping ping pong balls down to a sunken boat, as long 392 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,600 as it's at the bottom of a bucket. 393 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,200 So they scale up the experiment to a depth of 15 feet. 394 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,600 This thing is really heavy. 395 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:26,600 Geez. 396 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:33,160 We're about to stand up a 15, 16 foot tall piece of PVC pipe here. 397 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:38,600 We're going to use this to test our ping pong ball rescue rig by putting a pipe all the 398 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:43,800 way down to the bottom of it and seeing if we can pump ping pong balls that full distance. 399 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:48,080 That's about half the depth they'll be working in when they try to raise the sunken boat for 400 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:49,080 real. 401 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,800 Okay, I'm going to move the bottom over. 402 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,520 Okay, good. 403 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,200 Nicely done. 404 00:22:55,200 --> 00:23:01,880 The white PVC pipe is filled with water to create a 15 foot slice of ocean. 405 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:07,440 Adam inserts a funnel into the hose, fires up a water pump, and pours in the ping pong 406 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:13,200 balls, which travel to the ocean bottom before dutifully bobbing to the surface. 407 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,360 That's what I like to see. 408 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:17,600 I'd say that's a working thing, right? 409 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,960 Yeah, that works. 410 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,880 Okay, got it. 411 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,960 Well, let's wrap this up and figure out how to make one really big. 412 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:26,960 Okay. 413 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,240 The experiment has elayed some of Adam's doubts. 414 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,000 He still can't find fault with Janie's rig. 415 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,440 I actually said it was a very successful test. 416 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:41,640 We had about eight feet of hose above a 15 foot reservoir, and we got ping pong balls 417 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,160 coming up from underneath. 418 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:49,360 Although the experiment works, Adam wants to double the depth, just to be sure. 419 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:51,200 Jamie's seen enough. 420 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,240 If you pour the water into the tube, it's going to go out the bottom. 421 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:55,240 That's what it is. 422 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,840 I mean, if you want to go without caution and put all our eggs in a single basket, we 423 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,600 can, but I'm just advocating caution because I'm not sure. 424 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:06,280 I'm happy to do a myth where we go out and have no caution and get up and have you eat 425 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:07,280 it and not be upset about it. 426 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:08,280 Hey, you big baby, stop whining. 427 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,360 You're such a pain in the ass about it. 428 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:11,360 I mean... 429 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:12,360 You're always whining about something. 430 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:15,360 You're going to waste time on all sorts of crap. 431 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:18,800 A prediction. 432 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,480 Adam's going to have to vent that anger. 433 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,040 There you go. 434 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,280 The pressure of this myth is starting to show. 435 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,480 So I guess I got to pull this rig down myself. 436 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,040 I'm up here just letting off some steam right now. 437 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,040 Adam needs a cookie. 438 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:41,280 There are times during the day when, you know, things just get all out of hand because Adam 439 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,560 needs a little sugar in the system and he gets all cranky over nothing. 440 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:45,560 I'm just livid. 441 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,880 I'm exhausted of advocating caution. 442 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,640 I'm not the unconscious one. 443 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,320 I'm just thinking of all the what-ifs. 444 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,320 Why waste the time over this crap? 445 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,440 If you don't think of all the what-ifs, then you get boned out there. 446 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:57,440 This is simple. 447 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,720 We're running a hose down into the boat and pouring ping pong balls down it. 448 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,000 That's probably not going to matter. 449 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,240 That's probably not going to matter. 450 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:04,520 And that's probably not going to matter. 451 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:05,520 We just tested it. 452 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:06,520 It works. 453 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:07,520 Stop whining. 454 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,720 Go have a cookie. 455 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,240 It's a knockout. 456 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,920 After a cookie cure, Adam's ready for more. 457 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,920 His next opponent, a giant plastic funnel. 458 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,680 Round one. 459 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,400 Round two. 460 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,640 Round three. 461 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:28,920 What? 462 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,040 This funnel's got some fancy moves. 463 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,760 He's on the ropes. 464 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,960 Then out of nowhere, a pile driver. 465 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:45,000 Adam nails it and he's back to normal. 466 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Watch that. 467 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,000 You see, sonny? 468 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,000 I can't quite hear you. 469 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:55,720 He applies the finishing touches to his high-tech funnel and completes a neat about face in 470 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,560 his opinion of Jamie's rig. 471 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,640 I'm really actually pleased with this mechanism. 472 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:04,120 This is a classic Jamie ultimate simplicity. 473 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:07,800 No pumps, no mechanical operations to get the ping pong balls down. 474 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,920 All we need is water coming up and over. 475 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:16,960 My big funnel is connected to the hose that will go down and hopefully deliver the ping 476 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:25,040 pong balls to our sunken ship, the jalapeno. 477 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:30,840 The mythbusters are at Monterey Bay Marina to select a sailboat to sink and then salvage 478 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,160 using ping pong balls. 479 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:39,040 Thanks to the generosity of the harbour master, they find themselves the proud owners of the 480 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,040 jalapeno. 481 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,720 Scott, what's been happening on this boat? 482 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:47,720 This boat has been neglected for several years and it was invaded by sea lions last year 483 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:53,280 during kind of a ten-year cycle that we have with the sea lion infestation here in the harbour. 484 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:59,400 Over 1,000 sea lions decided to take their summer vacation at Monterey Bay, causing havoc 485 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,200 at the marina. 486 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:08,720 The invasion sank several boats, but one proved unsinkable, the jalapeno. 487 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,600 This one had at least 30 or 40 different animals. 488 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:16,520 So somebody or something has already tried to sink this boat is what you're telling me. 489 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:17,520 Tried but failed. 490 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,520 Well, it sounds perfect. 491 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,040 Scott, this is the perfect boat for us. 492 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,040 I think we'll take it. 493 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:23,040 Okay. 494 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,400 Congratulations. 495 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:25,400 Thanks. 496 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:26,400 Good luck. 497 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,400 What a piece of crap. 498 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:29,400 What do you mean? 499 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:30,400 This is a great boat. 500 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:31,400 I think it's perfect. 501 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:38,680 I just have to figure out where to drill the right holes. 502 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,640 The jalapeno makes the perfect boat for the ping pong salvagement. 503 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,440 Number one, it's dirt cheap. 504 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,360 Number two, it's a piece of crap, so no one will mind us sinking it. 505 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:52,360 Number three, it's fiberglass and has actually a whole bunch of compartments which we can 506 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:56,600 fill each with ping pong balls and then seal off and move on to the next. 507 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,200 That's more ideal than we could have hoped for. 508 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,880 A little rotten wood here and there and a lot of chipped and peeling paint. 509 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,760 Otherwise, I think it'll serve our purpose nicely. 510 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,680 We have to clean it really well before we sink it in a protected wildlife sanctuary 511 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,360 at Monterey Bay. 512 00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:14,920 Shall we start to try and clean this puppy? 513 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:29,360 There it goes. 514 00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:37,240 With the jalapenos stripped down to its bare essentials, the guys make some minor, last 515 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,320 minute interior adjustments. 516 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:46,480 To refloat the boat from the ocean floor, the ping pong balls must have access to every 517 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:51,080 nook and cranny of cabin space. 518 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:57,720 Saving a boat is not as easy as you'd think. 519 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:02,400 With the cabin makeover complete, it's time to batten down the hatches. 520 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:07,000 The guys want to be sure that when they fill her with ping pong balls, she doesn't burst 521 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,600 open, but they're up against the clock. 522 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,320 What the hell time is it? 523 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:12,320 We're late. 524 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:13,840 Yeah, it's like almost four o'clock. 525 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:14,840 What? 526 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,400 It's almost like four o'clock. 527 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:20,680 When everything is ship-shaped, the jalapeno is renamed. 528 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:26,600 It's time to scuttle myth-tannic number two. 529 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:32,080 The doomed vessel is towed to a safe location on the other side of the marina. 530 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:40,880 With the final leg in sight, the boys slip into something less comfortable. 531 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:48,760 Jamie seems to be going camouflage as a walrus. 532 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:53,200 The sun is sinking, but myth-tannic two is still afloat. 533 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:59,640 The myth-busters are determined that she keeps her appointment with the ocean floor. 534 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:05,400 She's already survived the onslaught of over 40 sea lions, each weighing in at around 800 535 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,520 pounds. 536 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:14,120 Now the myth-busters flutter with water. 537 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,920 Adam starts to wonder if she'll ever go under. 538 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:22,760 How hard is this thing about? 539 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:28,160 A crowd gathers to wave farewell to myth-tannic two. 540 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,200 She finally surrenders. 541 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:42,720 Adam scrabbles to the bow. 542 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:48,840 As myth-tannic two descends towards the ocean floor, up above the guys are in myth-busters 543 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:49,840 heaven. 544 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:54,600 About three minutes ago, we just had what is a classic myth-busters, what the f*** we're 545 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,400 doing kind of moment. 546 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,360 We successfully sank the myth-tannic two. 547 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,720 While we were doing it, we took the opportunity to bust the titanic myth one more time. 548 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:08,680 This boat sunk on a tiny point left above the water, and I stood on that point and air 549 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,000 bubbled around me and I did not go down with this ship. 550 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,800 So I'm glad we're able to take care of ancillary myths as we go. 551 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,880 Bust it again! 552 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,520 I'm totally pumped on adrenaline. 553 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,640 I think I need a cookie. 554 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,960 It's been a blast, but sinking the boats a breeze compared to what they'll face in 555 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:40,680 the morning when the ping-pong salvage starts for real. 556 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:46,200 Back at the balloon challenge, young Maddie is showing patience beyond her years. 557 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,680 By now, she should have been lifted up, up and away. 558 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,560 Someone's messed up. 559 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:52,560 Big time. 560 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:57,320 The build team estimated 2,000 balloons would be enough to get her airborne. 561 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,840 Yes, this is truly my arm just being lifted by these balloons. 562 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:06,440 Instead, it seems they'll need twice that, and time is against them. 563 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,840 Didn't we calculate that the flying times of these balloons would be about six hours? 564 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,840 Better work faster! 565 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:17,280 Not only will they struggle to blow up that many balloons today, but with every minute 566 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:23,120 that passes, the balloons that are inflated lose some of their helium and lifting power. 567 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:28,120 We might be in like 6,000 balloons by the time we get the kid in the air. 568 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,720 Oh my God, my fingers can't take it. 569 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,360 Suddenly, everything is going wrong. 570 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,640 Balloons are popping. 571 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,760 Balloons are deflating. 572 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:43,760 Balloons are escaping. 573 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:44,760 Oh, I want it! 574 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,760 With time slipping away, Tori goes fishing. 575 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,760 Go, go, go, go, go! 576 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,760 Get up there! 577 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,760 Yeah, there you go. 578 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,760 It's getting sad, my ideas are crazy. 579 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,760 Whether it's fear of failure and mythbusters ridicule, 580 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,760 Ow, I need that finger! 581 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,760 or just the dread of a screaming man, 582 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:15,760 The builders blow and tie and curse their way towards a balloon bunch of mythic proportions. 583 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,760 Well, if our count is correct, we are now at 3,000 balloons, 584 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,760 which is about a thousand more than we originally expected. 585 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,760 My fingers are toast. 586 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,760 I guess we should do another test with the dummy, huh? 587 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:33,760 Once more, a sinking sandbag maddie reveals the terrible truth. 588 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,760 Okay, seven more pounds. We only have to lift seven more pounds. 589 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:38,760 Five hundred more balloons coming up. 590 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,760 This myth is starting to smell busted. 591 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:46,760 What carnival balloon vendor in his right mind would create a bunch this big, 592 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,760 then hand it to a child? 593 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,760 I have never seen that many balloons, not even at the county fair. 594 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,760 But try telling that to Maddie, who's been promised a flight. 595 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,760 We'll get us up to 3,500 balloons. 596 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,760 That's a lot of trouble for a little girl and a big myth, 597 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,760 but finally Maddie's moment has arrived. 598 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,760 Maddie, it's go time. 599 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:12,760 Woohoo! 600 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,760 Safety line in hand. 601 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,760 Wait, I got a safety line. 602 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:19,760 You ready? 603 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:20,760 Yes. 604 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:24,760 Look at that! 605 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:25,760 Oh my gosh! 606 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,760 Maddie will forever be burdened by having a story so amazing 607 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,760 that none of her friends believe it. 608 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:36,760 It worked! 609 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,760 That's the price of showing that while you can lift a kid with party balloons, 610 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,760 you just need far too many for the myth to be plausible. 611 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,760 I would say we popped that myth. 612 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:48,760 Totally busted. 613 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,760 There's no way that a circus would have this many balloons in one bunch. 614 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:53,760 Yeah! 615 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,760 Busted? Did someone say busted? 616 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:57,760 You did it! 617 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,760 Time to unleash the evil child within. 618 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,760 Sure, Freddie and Jason look scary, 619 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,760 but for real bang for her buck, 620 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,760 Scotty's flashing back to her street performing days. 621 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,760 Oh, the humanity. 622 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,760 Scotty, I think your method might be the most effective. 623 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,760 Busted, busted, busted, busted, busted! 624 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,760 Oh, and remember those balloons set free to roam the world? 625 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,760 Well, one bunch turned up at the Sequoia National Park, 626 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,760 300 miles away. 627 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,760 The other two, they never write, they never call. 628 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:49,760 A truckload of ping-pong balls rolls south to a rendezvous with the mythbusters. 629 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,760 Meanwhile, at a cold and foggy Monterey Bay, 630 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,760 there's something very fishy going on. 631 00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:58,760 It seems that you can't plan for everything. 632 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,760 There's a fish processing factory behind us, 633 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,760 and they're unloading a few thousand pounds of squid 634 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,760 and they're going to be able to get it. 635 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,760 We're in the fish processing factory behind us, 636 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,760 and they're unloading a few thousand pounds of squid, 637 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,760 a good portion of which seems to be chumming the very water 638 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,760 that we're going to be raising the methanochin. 639 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,760 We're emboldened by the fact that there's only been one shark attack 640 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,760 in the recorded history of Monterey Bay. 641 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,760 Gallons of squid juice are creating a stink. 642 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,760 This myth is putting the pong into ping pong. 643 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,760 Well, the second problem is directly a result of the first, 644 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:38,760 is that all this fish juice that is enticing marine animals to come and feed 645 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,760 is also limiting our visibility a lot. 646 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,760 So hopefully it'll wash away, 647 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,760 but we'll just have to take it as it comes as we go today. 648 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:51,760 Busting this myth is a tall order without the added perils of sharks 649 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:53,760 and poor visibility. 650 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,760 As they race the ping-pong balls towards the bay, 651 00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,760 the guys call in expert help from Robert Flores, 652 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,760 a professional salvage diver. 653 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,760 Robert, have you heard the myth about somebody that tried to float a sunken boat 654 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,760 with a bunch of ping-pong balls? 655 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,760 I've heard of it, but I've never seen it happen before. 656 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,760 What do you think? Is it possible? 657 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,760 If you can get the ping-pong balls underwater and you get enough of them in there, 658 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,760 I think you can get it to float. 659 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,760 Robert, what are the dangers in doing this kind of salvage work? 660 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,760 In this kind of situation, you're going to be working inside of a vessel 661 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,760 so you've got an overhead environment. 662 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,760 You've got to be particularly careful of your air consumption rate. 663 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,760 And of course, a dramatic loss in buoyancy for a hatch cover to blow open 664 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,760 would cause the vessel to immediately sink again. 665 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,760 And if anybody's in it, underneath it, or near it, 666 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:37,760 and gets caught in any of the ribbing or ropes, 667 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,760 it could be extremely dangerous. 668 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:40,760 You feel like helping us? 669 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,760 I'd be glad to give you a hand. I want to watch this one happen. 670 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:50,760 The truck has arrived, and the team get to work on loading 60,000 ping-pong balls. 671 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,760 Moving this mountain falls to myth-turned Christine, 672 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,760 and it's getting up her nose. 673 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,760 They stink. Never imagined ping-pong balls would smell so bad. 674 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,760 The worst-case scenario is actually going to happen to me today, 675 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,760 which is to collect 60,000 ping-pong balls and find a place to put them. 676 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,760 First blood falls to the box cutter. 677 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,760 Another myth-buster injury. 678 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,760 I've had candy exploded on my face. I've been shocked twice. 679 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,760 I had scaffolding fall near me. And now this. 680 00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,760 Can she stay the distance? 681 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,760 Yes, I think I will survive the series, 682 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,760 but I think I'll probably use up eight of my nine lives. 683 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:32,760 Christine can take care of herself, but the local wildlife need protecting it. 684 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:38,760 Adam and Jamie seek advice from Rachel Saunders of the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary. 685 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:44,760 We're actually about to potentially release like 60,000 ping-pong balls into this marine sanctuary. 686 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,760 And what would be like a worst-case scenario with those ping-pong balls, do you think? 687 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:53,760 Well, we would want to make sure that no marine animals swallowed them, for example, 688 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,760 and hurt them in any way. So that would be the primary concern. 689 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:02,760 If they swallowed it, it might get lodged in their throat and they could choke. 690 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,760 They might pass it through, but you don't know. 691 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:11,760 You know, I think Jamie here actually possesses a certification in Otter CPR. 692 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:17,760 Well, hopefully that won't happen. We won't have to learn how that would work. 693 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:24,760 Forwarned is for armed. The guys decide to seal off the salvage area 694 00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,760 to keep marine life and ping-pong balls apart. 695 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,760 Hey, Jamie, they're calling you. 696 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,760 They saw the mustache. 697 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:37,760 Yeah. 698 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:45,760 While Adam feeds the rig up above, Jamie and dive master Robert will be down below at the business end, 699 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,760 marshalling balls into MythTanic 2. 700 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:54,760 The rig works, and Jamie clocks in for the early shift on the ocean floor. 701 00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:03,760 Thereof, and the first of an estimated 50,000 ping-pong balls are pumped into MythTanic 2. 702 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,760 Things seem to be rolling along. 703 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,760 Hold up, there's a hold up. 704 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:18,760 When Adam feeds in too many balls at once, the system chokes. 705 00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,760 He's reduced to feeding them in a handful at a time. 706 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,760 One hour into this myth, and spirits are sinking. 707 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,760 At this point, I've only emptied like four or five boxes. 708 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,760 That's like six or seven thousand ping-pong balls. 709 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,760 I don't think that means that 50,000 needs to take ten hours, 710 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:42,760 but we're going to have to pick up the pace in order for us to get a reasonable amount of balls into there in a reasonable amount of time. 711 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,760 Then Robert pops up with a suggestion. 712 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,760 I think the hose is still too long. 713 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,760 I've got all this slack and I've got all the photo. 714 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,760 If you could take about another ten or twelve feet off of this thing. 715 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,760 I can take ten feet off in five seconds. 716 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,760 The long hose is looping in the water, 717 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:02,760 and the downward flow of ping-pong balls is being reversed on the uphill sections. 718 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,760 So the balls aren't reaching the boat in large enough numbers. 719 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,760 The MythBusters hope that by cutting the hose to length, 720 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:14,760 the flow from funnel to boat will be smoother and faster. 721 00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,760 Adam lops the hose in half, and they try again. 722 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,760 With dramatic results. 723 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:29,760 With one simple modification, the dispensing rig runs like clockwork, 724 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,760 and they're having a ball. 725 00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:38,760 Soon MythTanic 2 contains enough ping-pong balls to become neutrally buoyant. 726 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,760 Her stern remains on the bottom, but her bow is floating free, 727 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,760 and she's still only half filled with balls. 728 00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,760 News reaches the surface, and Adam's on top of the world. 729 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,760 Oh, that's cool. 730 00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,760 The most critical phase of the salvage is approaching, 731 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,760 and it's also the most dangerous by far. 732 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:10,760 At Monterey Bay, the MythBusters bid to salvage a sunken boat 733 00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,760 using ping-pong balls lies in the balance. 734 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:15,760 We're trying to lift this boat from its deck, 735 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,760 something the deck was never intended to do. 736 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,760 So it's possible once we get enough ping-pong balls under there, 737 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,760 and it's trying to lift the 1800 pound keel 738 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,760 that the deck will just rip right off the boat, 739 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,760 and we'll have 30,000 ping-pong balls inside of our boom here. 740 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,760 As the upward pressure in the MythTanic reaches critical, 741 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,760 Adam continues to feed balls into the funnel. 742 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,760 Suddenly, hundreds of them bob up from below. 743 00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:48,760 That could be hours of work floating to the surface. 744 00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,760 Oh, no. They're coming up. 745 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,760 Can you hear me? 746 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,760 Can you hear me? Over. 747 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,760 Robert surfaces with a damage report. 748 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:04,760 He's okay, but MythTanic 2 has ruptured. 749 00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,760 There we go. What's going on down there? 750 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,760 There's a window on top. We didn't even see it. 751 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,760 Our piece of wood glued in, that blew out. 752 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,760 Shoot. 753 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,760 We need to find a way to put it up underneath 754 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,760 to fill it with ping-pong balls again. 755 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,760 On the front of the boat, there was this hatch on the bow 756 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:23,760 that we screwed down. 757 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,760 That hole blew out, it seems, from pressure of the ping-pong balls, 758 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,760 because we were up here pumping the balls down, 759 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,760 and all of a sudden, ping-pong balls were shooting up out of the water. 760 00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,760 A new hatch cover is quickly improvised. 761 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,760 Robert fits it from the inside. 762 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,760 So as the ping-pong balls pack in behind it, 763 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,760 they'll force shut the hole. 764 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,760 The dispensing rig swings into high gear, 765 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,760 and the MythBusters are back in business. 766 00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,760 Oh, yeah. They're going. 767 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,760 The ping-pong balls fly into the depths, 768 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,760 and before long, there's 26,000 of them inside MythTanic 2. 769 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:10,760 That's just over half the number they estimate they'll need to raise her. 770 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,760 Suddenly, Robert hits the surface with unexpected news. 771 00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:18,760 Now she's standing straight up. 772 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:20,760 MythTanic's low is ready to float up. 773 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:22,760 So I'm low on air. 774 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:24,760 Jamie, it's your turn. 775 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,760 Go finish her up. 776 00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:28,760 This is the moment of truth. 777 00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,760 Either this gag is going to work or it's not. 778 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,760 Just in case you were wondering, 779 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,760 what isn't referring to the gag about the diver and the beret? 780 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,760 The boat is upright. It's teetering. 781 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,760 So we know we've got a lot of floatation in there. 782 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,760 It's a question of overcoming the weight of the keel in this boat. 783 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,760 These boats have a lead keel. 784 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:52,760 So, does anybody's guess whether it's actually going to work? 785 00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,760 The good news is that the main cabin is still empty, 786 00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,760 so there's plenty of room for more balls. 787 00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:02,760 The bad news is that according to their calculations, 788 00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,760 they need to pump at least another 24,000 of them 789 00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,760 to get MythTanic 2 out of the mud. 790 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,760 I think it's going to work. It's going to be close. 791 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:16,760 Jamie goes below for what looks like another long shift. 792 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:21,760 But before long, MythTanic 2 seems to be straining at the leash. 793 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:25,760 A premature resurrection may be imminent. 794 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,760 Up top, the excitement mounts. 795 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,760 I'm cautiously optimistic that it's maybe an hour 796 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:36,760 until this boat breaks the surface and confirms this myth. 797 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,760 Take that caution and throw it to the wind, 798 00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:44,760 because even as Adam speaks, MythTanic 2 stirs, 799 00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,760 then slowly rises from her watery grave. 800 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:03,760 Way ahead of schedule, the ping-pong balls float the MythBusters boat. 801 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:05,760 And work! 802 00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:10,760 The nine-hour marathon salvage is over. 803 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,760 We succeeded, of all things. 804 00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:33,760 We got the MythTanic to the surface using about 27,000 ping-pong balls, 805 00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:37,760 all told, which is a lot less than I thought we'd need. 806 00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,760 But she's on the surface. We did it. 807 00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:45,760 The guys had calculated that it would take at least 50,000 ping-pong balls 808 00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,760 to raise MythTanic 2. 809 00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,760 But they did it with just over half that number. 810 00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:55,760 MythTanic 2 is winched onto the dock, 811 00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,760 and the guys gather for a post-mortem. 812 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,760 I thought we were going to do it, Jimmy, 813 00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,760 but I didn't realize we were going to do it that easily. 814 00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:07,760 It didn't really seem like it took that many. 815 00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:11,760 None of the compartments were packed like I thought we were going to need 816 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,760 to really get every last nook and cranny filled for this to work. 817 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,760 Well, we had to use less because the fiberglass was more buoyant. 818 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,760 It was in the wood, something we didn't take into account at the beginning. 819 00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,760 Adam, the pump. Did it work well? What's the deal? 820 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,760 The pump actually worked. It got the balls down there. 821 00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:30,760 I would have liked to have seen it move a little faster, 822 00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,760 and it took a little dialing in, but overall, 823 00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:36,760 for the simplest possible rig we could have designed, it worked like a charm. 824 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,760 And who would have ever thought that you could pour ping-pong balls down 825 00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:41,760 into the bottom of the ocean? 826 00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:42,760 Exactly. 827 00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,760 Actually, the guys were beaten to the idea. 828 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:50,760 Duck, over 70 years ago, Donald and his nephews came up with a ping-pong ball 829 00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:54,760 dispensing rig uncannily similar to Janie's. 830 00:47:54,760 --> 00:48:00,760 And like the mythbusters, the comic book poultry also achieved success. 831 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:04,760 Well, guys, ping-pong ball salvage. Busted, plausible, or confirmed? 832 00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,760 Amazingly, I'd say this one is entirely plausible. 833 00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,760 Yeah, plausible, not practical, though. 834 00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,760 You never think anything's really practical, do you? 835 00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,760 What are you talking about? 836 00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,760 But wait, there's still time for the ping-pong gong. 837 00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:21,760 So what do you think, Robert? 838 00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,760 Have we busted the field of salvage technology wide open, 839 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,760 or ping-pong balls are a reasonable way to salvage a boat? 840 00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,760 I wouldn't give up my day job yet. 841 00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:30,760 No. 842 00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:31,760 No. 843 00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:33,760 How did Jamie do as a salvage diver? 844 00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,760 Well, I think Jamie did an outstanding job. 845 00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:41,760 And as part of that, our dive team has all voted and we got together. 846 00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:47,760 Jamie, we'd like to present you with an honorary Navy salvage dive pin. 847 00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:48,760 Wow. 848 00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,760 And hopefully you'll come out and dive with us again sometime. 849 00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:53,760 Or call us out the next time you want to do some salvage diving. 850 00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,760 Well, that's wonderful, Robert. Thanks. 851 00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:56,760 You're welcome. 852 00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:57,760 Very much. 853 00:48:57,760 --> 00:48:59,760 What about my chop liver? 854 00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:13,760 Thank you.