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On tonight's hair-raising episode of Mythbusters,

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Adam and Jamie put Sinema's most famous chop fest to the test.

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We find out, could a real shark be as strong as Spielberg's Leviathan?

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Will punching a shark save your skin?

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Come on, let's go!

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And will a bullet blow a scuba tank sky high?

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Who can forget Jaws, the movie that made a generation think twice about taking a bath?

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In Steven Spielberg's classic, a big fish with a big dorsal turns swimmers into tasty morsels,

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before finally being blown out of the water by an exploding scuba tank.

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Smile, you son of a...

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We're going to see if punching a shark will actually stop it from attacking you.

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We're going to test how strong sharks are.

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And then, my personal favorite, we're going to see if shooting a scuba tank with a bullet will actually make it explode.

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The massive great white shark in Jaws exhibits almost supernatural strength and stamina.

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It keeps three flotation barrels submerged for hours on end.

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It yanks Quinn's boat, the orca, backwards while the engine's running.

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It's impossible! It's impossible!

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It demolishes a shark cage, and it rams a hole in the orca's hull.

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But is any of it feasible?

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Adam and Jamie will put each of those scenarios to the test in true Mythbusters style.

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The movie shark displays two different kinds of strength.

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Pulling down the barrels and towing the boat backwards are examples of continuous force.

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Ramming the cage and the boat, that's shock force.

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Adam, what are you doing?

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I'm trying to apply some biomechanical force to this rope to see if there's some kind of proportion to my body weight

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and how much force I can apply on this rope horizontally and what a shark's body weight is underwater

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and what it can apply to a fishing line, for instance.

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By using shock force, Adam and Jamie can exert almost 10 times their body weight.

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You made a thousand pounds of lunch.

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But on a constant pull, they muster barely half.

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Is it the same for a shark? Time to collect some hard data.

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And so we find them making pre-dawn preparations for a little jaunt, armed with sealed decoys and a 20,000 pound force gauge.

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The next stage basically involves, we'll have our decoys out in the water and we're hoping that a shark will actually grab one.

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And if he does, we're going to have our big scale on the end of it so we can maybe go right to the source

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and find out how much pulling strength a shark might actually have.

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It's not guaranteed by any means, but this is the best place to find out.

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But it doesn't look like Adam will find out anything.

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So much for the old sea dog.

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Sick as a dog, more like it.

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The Farallon Islands lie 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco.

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There is jagged as the teeth of the great whites that prowl these waters.

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With Adam still out of action, Jamie deploys the decoys.

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Then there's nothing to do but wait and talk big fish.

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Sean Vansomeren is an expert on great whites.

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He's seen their incredible power and speed.

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I've seen two and a half ton white sharks come flying out of the water and bite big.

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50-60 pound bites out of elephant seals and things like that.

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Things that impress me as a hugely powerful animal.

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A great white speed has never been caught.

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However, during aerial maneuvers like this, it's estimated they travel between 20 and 25 miles per hour.

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Unfortunately for the mythbusters, the Farallon sharks are keeping a much lower profile.

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Maybe the decoys aren't to their taste.

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Looks like it's on to plan B.

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When Adam recovers, that is.

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Well Adam, we're just back from the Farallons and we have a fundamental problem

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testing the strength of a great white.

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We just can't practically or politically control the amount of white sharks.

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Practically or politically or ethically do it.

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There's only a few hundred of them along the entire west coast of the United States.

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Well, I still think it's important to use a real animal to get some shark strength data.

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So perhaps when we go to the Bahamas and we're dealing with some other species of sharks,

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we can do some of these tests with another species, but real sharks nonetheless

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and try and get some good results out of that.

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The Bahamas.

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Looks like the gags offer a little vacation.

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Hello.

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The Bahamas are a chain of islands that lie off the southeast of Florida.

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The waters team with Caribbean reef sharks.

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At a maximum length of around six feet, they don't bear much relation to the movie monster,

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but they might still provide some good shark strength data.

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The guys from the Bimini Biological Research Station have agreed to help.

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This time, Adam's managing to keep his lunch down.

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The mythbusters know this brief trip won't yield definitive answers.

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Still, some figures are better than none.

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The line is attached to a 150-pound force gauge.

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When a shark takes the bait, they can measure the amount of force.

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Oh, nope, nope, nope. There we go. Come on, come on.

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Fight, fight, fight.

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There we go. That's it. Fight, we're fighting.

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I got a shock load of about 30 pounds on him, but only a steady pressure of maybe 15.

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Each shark is brought in and weighed.

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Okay, what does it say, Jamie?

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We had 45 pounds.

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Minus 15 pounds for the rig, which means this little guy exerts a shock force of about his own weight.

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Yeah, he's got it, he's got it.

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Shack load of 70. Steady pull, steady pull.

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30, 30.

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There we go. Good.

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Alright, he's coming in.

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He's in place.

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Are we ready?

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Okay, back is cinched.

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Let it go.

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Okay, now, now's good for the rigging.

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There you go. That's 70 pounds right there.

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Okay, so minus 15.

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So again, he's about pulling his own weight, which is what one would expect.

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The rule of thumb seems to be that sharks can pull no more than their own weight on a shock load,

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and about 30% of their weight on a continuous pull.

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So you're ready to go after that big hammerhead now?

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The guys will use those two figures as the basis of their shark strength experiments,

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which they'll carry out back in San Francisco.

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But first, they have a jab at another jaw's myth.

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In the film's climax, the marauding great white backs off briefly

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after being whacked on the nose with a scuba tank.

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But would that really deter a 25-foot fish intent on eating you?

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What do you got behind your back?

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Well, the myth is that if you're attacked by a shark and you punch it in the nose,

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or you jab it in the gills, then you'll frighten it away.

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You know, I can't really come up with a way I'd like to test this one.

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Well, actually I have an idea, and that would be to take Buster, our crash test dummy,

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out into shark-infested waters, cover him with fish offal, like guts and stuff,

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and have him fend off the sharks with some kind of punching mechanism.

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That actually seems like a pretty good plan, Jamie.

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But you know, a lot's changed since Jaws came out.

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A lot of species of sharks are endangered, and I don't think we should just go

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mechanically smacking away at them willy-nilly.

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I think we really need to perhaps do some tests using our high-speed camera

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to see how hard a human can punch and not really exceed that amount.

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We don't want to hurt any sharks during the making of this show.

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It's a very real concern.

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A shark snout contains a finely tuned bioelectrical system to help them hunt.

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Tiny receptors on the nose detect electrical signals from potential prey.

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So could Jaws be right?

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Is a shark's nose its glass jaw?

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What we're about to do is to test the force of a human punch.

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Adam's going to try and punch me, and before he does that,

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I'm going to put on this protective suit we call the Redman suit, because it's red.

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Oh, okay.

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Of course, Jamie doesn't need to wear the whole outfit for the test,

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but if there's one thing the Mythbusters love, it's a good dress-up.

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Are you ready?

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Uh, guys, when you've quite finished...

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Okay, it's time for Adam to live his dream.

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Give me your breast rock! Come on!

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He gets to punch Jamie for the high-speed camera, all in the name of science.

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Three, two, one.

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That was okay, wasn't it?

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Okay, ready?

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That was a hard one.

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Three, two, one.

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Adam's fastest punch is clocked at 20 miles per hour.

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Now we're going to do force. How much force is behind those punches?

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How are we going to do that?

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I was thinking if we took something like a sandbag, a large bag of sand,

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and we hit it and saw how far it swung, and we were able to replicate that swing,

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we'd have something pretty accurate.

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One of Buster's thighs makes a good punching bag.

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Off the end of the scale.

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At the scale there, Rocky.

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Force is mass times acceleration. Buster's thigh weighs 10 pounds.

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Jamie's punch moves that 10 pounds, 37 inches, in a third of a second.

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All right, Jamie. So when I threw my punch, my best speed was about 20 miles an hour.

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And when you actually punched the leg meat here, you made it move about three feet with your punch.

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the distance traveled and everything, we should be able to replicate it or try to.

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Coming up, how great was the great white in Jaws?

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Could a real shark be as strong?

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And Buster gets set to go a few rounds with some denizens of the deep.

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We've got a robot in the water. He's stuffed with tuna.

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And it's just another day here with Buster's.

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It's Jaws' night. The Mythbusters are putting some scenes from the movie to the test.

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Get me out!

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Jamie's turning Buster into a punching machine to test the myth that a sharp biff on a shark's nose will send it packing.

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The plan is to build a pair of aluminium arms with specially molded fists that will be powered by compressed air from a scuba tank.

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Then Buster will be chummed to the eyeballs and dropped in the ocean.

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When a curious shark approaches, he'll come out swinging.

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So that'll be the most upward pose.

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Here that little chuckle. You always get that when things are going to plan.

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And there you go.

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Well, that's a punch. It works.

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And according to specs, it has plenty of power. It'll be mounted on the shoulder like so.

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Just one thing. Those shoulder pads are so 1985.

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He looks like a super hero.

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Let's see if his air powered fists can exert the same force as Jamie.

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That's pretty fast.

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He made a little to your right, now the other way.

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It looks like we are in the ballpark. At ADPSI, it went about three quarters of the way up the scale.

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And you went all the way to the end of that scale.

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So more pressure. We probably get it to go a little faster. We just need to solve the valve problem.

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The problem currently is with the valve.

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And while it's a perfect valve that's nothing wrong with the valve for some reason,

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it's not designed to exhaust the air that needs to come out the far side of these actuators

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whenever we work them back and forth.

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In other words, air isn't being bled out of the system fast enough.

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Now, Jamie wanted to keep the rig simple. One lever, one pull, one punch.

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You actually have to do it as a two-stage process to be able to open and bleed things in the right way

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There's, you know, an additional thing going on and we're going to be focusing on punching the shark on a cue.

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So I was trying to avoid it.

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While Jamie sorts out his rig, Adam tackles some more jaws' myths.

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Like could a real shark possess the same strength as the great white in jaws?

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There's four separate tests to try out.

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Each one taken from a scene in the movie.

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I've been given responsibility to build a shark cage that exactly matches the one from the film

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in every detail, height, weight, size, thickness, everything.

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What we want to do is actually ram this with a fake shark.

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We want to see if a real shark could actually destroy the cage like Jaws did in the movie.

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I know there are seven of these bars.

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I know they're an inch wide each.

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You've got to look at the scene and sort of figure out exactly how big everything is.

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So I'm doing that looking at a bunch of stuff from Jaws.

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The other thing they're going to need for the strength tests is a shark-shaped battering ram.

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Question is, how big should it be?

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The great white in jaws is said to be 25 feet long and 6,000 pounds.

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But science has no record of a shark that big.

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One of the most important facts for us to get right for the shark strength experiment is how big do great whites actually get.

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And, you know, the size estimates are all over the map.

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We've got one from 1945 in Cuba, 21 feet long, 7,000 pounds.

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Further analysis of the photograph shows that it was more like 16 feet long and they never actually weighed it.

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There's no time for anatomical accuracy.

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Instead, they'll cast a shark head and the body will be a length of pipe weighing 3,000 pounds.

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Step one, Carrie carves a great white head from a great white block of foam,

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which the build team then uses to make a fiberglass mold.

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Meanwhile, Adams finding out that building a shark cage from scratch is no walk in the park.

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I'm a little zoned out.

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I'm more than halfway there in the machining of these things.

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There we have a 100% accurate prop reproduction of the jaws shark cage.

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Oh, she goes!

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So I guess now the question is, what kind of shark abuse will this puppy withstand?

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And we won't find the answer to that until the build team finishes the shark ramp.

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Next stop, an art supply shop.

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It sounds like Jamie has picked a certain rubber that he thinks would most match the shark skin.

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So we're probably going to go with that.

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We actually are looking for a fast curing polyurethane that can be brushed on.

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It can be applied really thick so that we can work really quickly and get the shark head knocked out

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because we've been working on it for days and we thought it would take all day.

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What we've got here is a Goldilocks situation.

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If the rubber's too hard, the ram will easily penetrate the targets.

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Too soft and it'll bounce right off.

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So it has to be just right.

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Mmm, yummy!

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It's a sticky situation and some test tugging has Tori worry.

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This is like my worst nightmare coming true.

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Not being able to pull a piece out of a mold.

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I hear it's separating. That's a good thing.

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Come on, baby.

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Oh, my God.

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It's really good.

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Yeah.

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The result, one rubber and fiberglass shark head.

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That was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be.

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Now just paint and attach to a big pipe.

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It's a rammer.

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Next are myth busters. I can eat them.

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It's out of the workshop and into shark-infested waters.

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The Myth Busters want to find out, will punching a shark stop it attacking you?

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Jamie's trying to turn Buster into an air-powered shark-punching machine.

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In Jaws, Brody buys himself some time by hitting the shark with a scuba tank.

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In the real world, it's a commonly held belief that when a shark attacks,

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it's going to attack you.

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In 1963, Rodney Fox was spear-fishing off the South Australian coast

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when he suddenly found himself in the jaws of a great white.

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All I remember is this big thing pushing me through the water.

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When I was a kid, I was a little boy.

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I was a little boy.

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I was a little boy.

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I was a little boy.

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I was a little boy.

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I was a little boy.

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I was a little boy.

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When I was attacked, I knew I was being attacked

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and I just thought I should fight it off and do my best to get out of it.

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And because I actually fought and grabbed a hold of the shark around the belly

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because it wouldn't bite me and then I ticked at it and I pushed it off,

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I believe that helped a lot.

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Whatever the reason, Rodney Fox was released and lived to tell the tale.

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His wounds needed more than 500 stitches.

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Well, there you go.

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Looks like Buster's ready to come out swinging.

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Jamie's overcome the airflow restriction,

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although operating the rig now takes a degree of coordination and timing.

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Just kind of balance it. It won't hit you if you're down here.

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I will steer it, Adam, since you're going to be operating that thing,

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you might as well operate it.

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Is it powered up?

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It's powered up and I will have to hold on to this to aim it.

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All right, are you ready? Here we go.

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Three, two, one.

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That was pretty close.

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There's only two inches difference between Jamie's test punch and Buster's effort.

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That's close enough.

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I mean, the other thing that you were doing when you hit it

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is you were putting your whole shoulder behind it.

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You weren't doing this like that.

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And the fact that it came within two inches of your mark, I think that's just perfect.

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I think this thing could hurt you.

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I think we're about to find out whether it'll hurt you.

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All right, I'll go put on the suit.

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What did I say about dressing up?

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Yeah, I can shake a booty in this.

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Oh.

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Looks like Buster's got his measure.

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Come on, let's go.

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So Buster's finally punching. He's doing well.

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He's got the right speed.

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Yeah, the last thing we have to do is hang him over the shark cage or in front of it.

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Because I'll be inside it, steering him.

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You'll be on the surface operating the valve so he punches.

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Making him punch, right?

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Yeah, and that's about it.

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As we know, the waters off Northern California are home to some giant great white sharks.

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But even the myth Buster's would think twice before shaping up to these monsters.

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Buster will have to pick on something his own size, like say a Caribbean reef shark.

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All right, looks like it's time to pack Buster's bags for the Bahamas.

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What do you think he'd wear? Shorts or a little thong?

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I don't know if Buster has enough actual flesh down there for a thong, but...

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He's got no butt at all. In fact, he doesn't even have any legs.

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Here we go again.

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We've put Buster through a lot on the show. We've burnt him, blown him up, dropped him off of buildings.

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But I think this is his shining moment. We've finally given him the gift of movement.

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We're going to put him in with some sharks.

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Two sharks right below us.

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We really want these sharks to come right in to Buster. We need to have them think of Buster as dinner.

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And so we've got to really motivate him and get them all worked up.

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That means probably baiting the area and in particular baiting Buster, having him exuding fish essence.

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Yaaaaaah!

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I'm looking at all these sharks in the water. If Buster was a real boy, he'd be absolutely terrified right now.

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Buster's being turned into a smorgasbord.

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Step one, put on his wetsuit. No mean feet when he has no feet.

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And pack the wetsuit with juicy morsels sure to have the sharks licking their chops.

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Metaphorically, of course, sharks don't have tongues.

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I still think that shark fighting Buster might end up punching this way while sharks are eating his ass.

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But I think if he actually gets contact, the shark's going to go right away.

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Buster's got more hose than a lingerie store. What if a shark gnaws through it?

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Will he be sent down to Davy Jones Locker?

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If Buster's umbilical does get cut and he goes to the bottom, I mean, hell or high water, we're going to get him back out.

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We leave no man behind on Myth Buster's man.

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Jamie will be holding on to Buster through the bars of the shark cage, so he'll be modeling the latest chain mail.

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But he won't be going alone. Stuart Cove's agreed to join him in the cage.

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Jamie, you look really hot in that chain mail.

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Stuart, is there any kind of possibility for stuff getting out of control with this thing?

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I mean, we're going to chum the heck out of the water here, right?

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Yeah, it's definitely going to get out of control, but we're in the cage.

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So the only problem we may have is if one of the sharks, the little ones, gets inside the cage.

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Okay.

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Buster goes overboard.

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We've got a robot in the water. He's stuffed with tuna, and it's just another day here with Buster's.

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Ask him how that went.

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How are those two deafening blows over?

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It just looked like they were in the show. They're very aggressive. Over.

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I guess we're ready for some sharks. Over.

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Is Andy blowing over?

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They're coming.

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Earing up.

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Earing up over.

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Go ahead.

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Punch!

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Initially, Buster's a little slow to react.

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Oh, okay.

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The sharks seem cautious, but soon the fishy waft from his wetsuit has them fired up.

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Buster has a real fight on his hands.

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Oh!

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Punch!

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Punch!

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Oh my God. This is more fun than it should be allowed.

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The reef sharks do shy away when punched or poked, but they don't stay away for long.

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A shark shoots up from below and grabs Buster's arm.

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Punch!

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Okay, that was pretty intense. We just had a punch delivered,

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hit onto a shark and a reefed Buster hit him like this while he was wrestling with the shark. Over.

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While boxing Buster is working well, he's still a little hit and miss.

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Remember, the myth says that punching a shark in the nose, eyes, or gills will stop it attacking.

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Not sure how often Buster's finding the mark.

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Punch!

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Buster!

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Woo!

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And I hear the spear on him.

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I'm killing me not being able to see down there.

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And totally it's killing me.

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Punch!

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The smell of the bait is making them bolder.

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They're giggling, I can't even hear them.

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Oh, Buster's playing like, whoa!

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I didn't get one of those, what the hell am I doing, Moments? Over.

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That was amazing!

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Sometimes the sharks would just come in and get a hold of him.

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They were like, completely swallowing his hands while I'm going, punch, punch, punch.

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I just let him go and he's out there swimming around by himself, punching and…

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The conquering hero returns, bearing the scars of battle.

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Look at this, look at all these bites around the wrist, it means he swallowed the hand.

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He's just ripped the shreds.

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And so is his fish-filled wetsuit.

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It's quite obvious that they're very skittish, they don't like to be challenged,

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and if you give them a good wrap, they're likely to go away, so I think it's actually impressively possible.

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But the mythbusters haven't traveled all the way to the Bahamas to leave it at that.

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Now they've seen the sharks in action, they're already planning their next bout.

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Clearly I think we might be slipping on mythbusters, I mean the robotic shark-punching buster worked perfectly the first time out.

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Yeah, you know, it showed if the sharks were really motivated to go for you, you know, like really attack you,

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that was their focus, because he was all chummed up and they wanted him.

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That you might as well go after him, you might as well punch him, what else are you going to do?

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Because it really actually did something.

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Yeah, it fended him off.

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Yeah, but I still think that we need to do a little more testing with this myth.

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I mean, clearly after what Stuart said, it sounds like if you punch the shark, they're going to come at you more aggressively.

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I think that we might have to take this a step further and get into the chainmail and have one of us, not me.

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Not me.

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Clearly Jamie.

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That would be me.

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Get down there in the chainmail and punch them personally.

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And see if they get more riled up by punching, and if punching is actually worse, then not punching.

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Are you willing to do it?

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You know what they say, when you're swimming with sharks, you're going to get bit.

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Coming up on Mythbusters.

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Can a bullet turn a scuba tank into a bomb?

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And how can this tank help solve the riddle of shark strength?

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How strong is a shark?

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According to Adam and Jamie's figures, a shark can exert no more than its own weight on a shock load,

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and about 30% of its weight on a continuous pull.

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If that's right, then is it possible for a real shark to wreak the same sort of havoc as the one in Jaws?

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The Mythbusters are in the perfect place to find out, a dry dock at an abandoned naval yard.

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This 38-foot cruiser will play the role of Quinn's doomed boat, the Orca.

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It's similar in size, weight, and construction.

431
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This feels exactly like Quinn's boat in the movie.

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What's out of the engine?

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I mean, the space in the cabin and all of that stuff, I know they're probably shooting on a set half the time, but it feels exactly right.

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We're calling it the Orca 5.

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I think the 1, 2, 3, and 4 they used in various movies, all the Jaws movies.

436
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They even had one with a balsa wood stern so the shark could get up on it easier.

437
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Always wanted to do this.

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I christened the Orca 5.

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Ew.

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How the hell do they do this?

441
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It's made of stern stuff, Carrie.

442
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Okay, I'm going to go for it for the seventh time.

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Cristen the Orca 5.

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This break!

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Okay, stop.

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The 3,000-pound Sharama is ready for action.

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Whitsing up.

448
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And they found the perfect way to tow it through the water.

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That is foxy.

450
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That is a foxy machine.

451
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This is an MTVL, Mobile Tactical Vehicle Light, on loan from United Defense, one of the US military's biggest contractors.

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28,000 pounds, 400 horsepower, 0-20 miles per hour in 7 seconds.

453
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Well, this is going to be our main drag vehicle for all of our shark experiments.

454
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This is heavy enough and fast enough to provide us with the speed and traction we need to pull boats, to pull sharks, to wreck shark cages and all the stuff we need to do.

455
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But Adam, will they let you drive it?

456
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I don't know if that's in the cards.

457
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Right, down to business. Time to roll out the barrels.

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Here's the plan. The barrels are tethered to a concrete block sitting on the bottom of the channel.

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A length of rope goes from the barrels, through a system of pulleys, to the force gauge, which is connected to the tank.

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The tank takes off, the barrels get jerked under, and the gauge registers the amount of force needed to submerge them.

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These are the actual barrels Spielberg used in the making of jaws.

462
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,000
Okay, okay.

463
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:24,000
If any harm comes to these babies, the owner will have Adam over a, you know what.

464
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:29,000
The only thing we're told we can't do is burn them, blow them up or lose them.

465
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,000
Has he watched the show?

466
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:35,000
The barrel line is fed through the pulleys and tied to the force gauge on the rear of the tank.

467
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,000
Alright, so I think we're ready.

468
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,000
Adam monitors a feed from a camera mounted above the force gauge.

469
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,000
Ready, set, sink.

470
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,000
1500.

471
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,000
1500 right there.

472
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,000
Are they under, Carrie?

473
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,000
They are just under.

474
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,000
Just about 1200 pounds.

475
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,000
We have 1200 pounds!

476
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,000
Alright.

477
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,000
I think we can back up. That's a good test.

478
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,000
You ready to back on the slack?

479
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,000
Hold on, I want to take a look.

480
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,000
What?

481
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,000
Ah, look at that, they're all the way under.

482
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,000
Woo!

483
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,000
Yay!

484
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,000
One down!

485
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:42,000
The barrel test, how much force would it take to sink three of the barrels from the movie Jaws below the surface of the water worked perfectly.

486
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,000
My estimation of about 1300 pounds was very close.

487
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,000
It turned out to be just over 1200 pounds to keep it under the surface.

488
00:37:49,000 --> 00:38:00,000
The test showed that your average real size shark between 17 and 19 feet between 3 and 4,000 pounds just would not have the strength to hold these barrels under the water.

489
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:04,000
It might be able to pull them under briefly, but it would not be able to keep them there.

490
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,000
That's shark strength round one to the Mythbusters.

491
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Oh, yeah!

492
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Alright guys, you know we have to have one explosion per episode and this one is a classic.

493
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,000
The question is, is the end of the movie Jaws actually feasible?

494
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:35,000
When Brody stuffs the scuba tank in the shark's mouth and fires a rifle right in its end, will it explode with enough force to blow the shark to smithereens?

495
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000
Smile, you son of a...

496
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:47,000
In the book version of Jaws, the great white meets a different fate, dying after being harpooned by Quint.

497
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:53,000
And author Peter Benchley wasn't happy about Spielberg's explosive climates.

498
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,000
The director was adamant.

499
00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:01,000
When Brody squeezed that trigger, the villain of the piece was going to go up like an oil refinery.

500
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:06,000
But Benchley thought that having the scuba tank explode when shot was unbelievable.

501
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,000
He said, I don't care.

502
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:19,000
He said, if I have got them for two hours, they will believe whatever I do for the next three minutes because I've got them in my hands and I want the audience on their feet screaming.

503
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,000
At the end, yes, yes, yes.

504
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,000
What audience has got was one of cinema's most memorable finales.

505
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,000
Okay, clearly this is going to be extraordinarily dangerous.

506
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,000
I mean, we've got to figure out a way to protect ourselves. Do you have any plans?

507
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,000
Well, actually I do.

508
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:44,000
My thought was to get a hold of one of those shipping containers, the big steel things.

509
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:53,000
And if we put the scuba tank inside that and we take our gun and mount it also inside that but make it able to fire remotely.

510
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,000
So we'll hook a motor or something up to it and run a wire way far away.

511
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,000
We should be able to operate this safely.

512
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,000
There's no question that a scuba tank carries a lot of energy.

513
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,000
Inside each cylinder is enough air to fill a phone booth.

514
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000
About 80 cubic feet.

515
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,000
The air is a mix.

516
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,000
78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen.

517
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,000
The air is stored under enormous pressure.

518
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:21,000
3,000 psi or 204 atmospheres.

519
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:27,000
It's estimated that a single tank carries 1.3 million pounds of explosive force.

520
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,000
And that's what Adam and Jamie want to unleash.

521
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:41,000
You know, I've got some prop geek buddies out there and I managed to obtain one of the actual tanks used in the shooting of Jaws.

522
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:45,000
It's actually been signed by Richard Dreyfus.

523
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,000
Jamie, you want to tell me what kind of tank this is?

524
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,000
Well, this is the most common type of tank that we would use these days.

525
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,000
This is an aluminum 80.

526
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:59,000
This is actually pretty good because part of this myth is about showing what would happen if you blew up a tank this way.

527
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:05,000
And I understand these things have about a million or actually it's 1.3 million pounds of explosive force.

528
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,000
I'm not sure what that means but it sounds like a lot.

529
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,000
So this is going to be fun.

530
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,000
Our scuba tank will have to be clenched in the jaws of a great white shark.

531
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:21,000
As well connected as he is, Adam can't get hold of the one used in the movie.

532
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,000
So he's going to make his very own.

533
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:30,000
We're working on making a basically a mock-up shark's head to put this tank into when we explode it.

534
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:40,000
I'm just still framing through the movie jaws to take a look at some of the basic measurements of the shark's mouth to try and duplicate the dimensions correctly.

535
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:52,000
I'm using a technique called additive foam build-up which involves using a upholstery foam like this which is just a one inch urethane foam and some contact cement

536
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:58,000
which is exactly how they make muppets in fact to make the shark's head.

537
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,000
I've got a sample over here that I prepared earlier.

538
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,000
It's a pretty good technique for making sharks.

539
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,000
The other question is what are they going to shoot the tank with?

540
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:16,000
We've chosen the 30-odd 6 because as near as we can tell by looking very carefully at the movie it's the same type of weapon that was used to shoot the scuba tank.

541
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000
The guys at the gun shop agree.

542
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:29,000
This war vintage M1 Garand uses a 30-odd 6 rifle cartridge and it's starting to dawn on Jamie that he's staring down the barrel of one dangerous challenge.

543
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:37,000
It may be a one in a million chance but the fact is if that weapon goes off when it's in the right position I'm dead.

544
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:44,000
Later the FBI's on standby as the mythbusters trigger the scuba tank firing squad.

545
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,000
In three, two, one.

546
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,000
And after the break they put shark strength to the test.

547
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:04,000
I got it!

548
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,000
Whoa, dude you really ate your weedies this morning.

549
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,000
The mythbusters have already sunk one jawsmith.

550
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,000
Now it's time for the second shark strength test.

551
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:21,000
For this experiment the Orca 5 will be connected to the tank and yanked backwards.

552
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:28,000
To replicate the scene successfully the boat will have to be pulled back so fast that waves break over the stern.

553
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,000
I can't hold it!

554
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,000
Okay we're about to fire up the engine, stand by.

555
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,000
Okay go ahead, we're going ahead.

556
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:40,000
The force gauge will be monitored by Carrie.

557
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:45,000
And the Orca 5 sets sail.

558
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,000
Full steam, eh, behind.

559
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,000
Holy.

560
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,000
One down.

561
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,000
Two down.

562
00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:00,000
You're good, you're good.

563
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:06,000
The tank hits 25 miles per hour.

564
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:11,000
The estimated top speed of a great white shark.

565
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:15,000
The force gauge will be monitored by Carrie.

566
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:20,000
The force gauge trembles between 4 and 8 thousand pounds.

567
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:25,000
And Orca 5's maiden voyage comes to a sudden end.

568
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:35,000
Stop, stop, stop, stop.

569
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:40,000
It was an action replay of the first shark.

570
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,000
It was an action replay of the movie.

571
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,000
A cleat was wrenched out.

572
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:53,000
But that's where reality ends and fiction begins.

573
00:44:53,000 --> 00:45:04,000
That actually proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the jaw shark could not have dragged the Orca backwards until water splashed over the stern.

574
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:09,000
Because it would require it to exert more than double its own weight.

575
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,000
And we didn't find a single shark that could do that.

576
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:15,000
So that's Mythbusters 2, Jaw's Zip.

577
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:25,000
Later, the Shoramers dead on target when the Mythbusters tackle the movie's remaining strength scenes.

578
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:35,000
Back at base, work on the exploding scuba tank myth continues.

579
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:40,000
So it's got some structure, but it's going to need some more.

580
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:45,000
Adam's Muppet Man-Eater is nearing completion.

581
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,000
It's just like the real thing, only cuddly.

582
00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:01,000
Ta-da! Doesn't that look good?

583
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,000
It's awesome.

584
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,000
There you go.

585
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:14,000
Everything is set, so they de-camp to a disused Air Force Base miles from any innocent bystanders.

586
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,000
Here's what they're going to do. Fred the Foam Sharks at 1M.

587
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:21,000
That looks awesome.

588
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:28,000
Jamie's remote firing gun rig is set up with the rifle position to fire at point blank range.

589
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,000
Yeah, so they tell up here. There you go, that's it.

590
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:39,000
First at test, they give Fred an empty scuba tank to chew on.

591
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,000
Just to see if a bullet can pierce the thick aluminum bottom.

592
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:44,000
Adam's tip?

593
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:49,000
We were able to put one of those bullets through two layers of bulletproof Lexan.

594
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:54,000
But it's two inches of aluminum. I mean, it's a lot stronger stuff.

595
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,000
I don't think it's going to make it through the bottom.

596
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:00,000
I think we're going to end up firing it, seeing that it doesn't work and going straight to the side.

597
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,000
If he's right, that'll be myth-busted right there.

598
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,000
Jamie loads around into the rifle.

599
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,000
Guns loaded.

600
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,000
Say when.

601
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,000
Go for it.

602
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:15,000
And three, two, one.

603
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,000
I think it went off.

604
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,000
That's fun.

605
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,000
Lucky Adam didn't have any money riding on that result.

606
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:32,000
Gonna pull it out.

607
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:33,000
That went right through.

608
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:36,000
Oh, look at that.

609
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,000
Wow.

610
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:44,000
So amazingly, that part of the myth is totally plausible.

611
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,000
Yes, indeed. Now we get to see what will happen with it under pressure.

612
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:54,000
On the other side of the break, put up your ducs, Jamie. It's time to fight off some fish.

613
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:57,000
If I was in charge, I wouldn't put them down there.

614
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:11,000
Jamie's agreed to take the plunge and put the shark punching myth to the ultimate test.

615
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:16,000
We're out here in a new location. It's much farther out and these sharks are wild.

616
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:21,000
They're much more aggressive. They're swirling around the boat right away when we landed

617
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:27,000
or when we dropped anchor here. And it's got me a little concerned.

618
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:32,000
Buster was punching some pretty well-fed, well-trained sharks out there at the two mile mark.

619
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:36,000
We're way farther out here and these sharks are, from what we've seen this morning,

620
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:41,000
a lot more aggressive, a lot quicker to go right for the food that they're interested in.

621
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:48,000
And there could be some confusion and some danger involved. I don't know how I feel about it.

622
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,000
I mean, I would completely support Jamie if he said no way.

623
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,000
I'm a little worried. I don't really want Jamie to go down there and do that.

624
00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:00,000
I'm watching those sharks. They're way more aggressive and I'm actually really nervous.

625
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,000
If I was in charge, I wouldn't put them down there.

626
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,000
But, Carrie, wasn't it your idea?

627
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:08,000
Have one of us, not me.

628
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:09,000
Not me.

629
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,000
Clearly Jamie. Come on. Would you want to hurt that guy? Look at him.

630
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:20,000
The worst-case scenario with this would be, say, if one of the animals got a hold of my arm

631
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,000
and started to thrash, I could potentially break it.

632
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,000
If I see a shark coming up with a beret, I'm going to be mad at you.

633
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:32,000
Here's the plan. Jamie and Stuart will dive to the seabed with a full bait box.

634
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:38,000
Jamie, wearing chain mail, will then try and guard the bait against an army of hungry sharks

635
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,000
using only his fists.

636
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,000
Hurt me. Go ahead.

637
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,000
Now Adam can't dive because of an ear problem.

638
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:50,000
Lucky then that the crew have brought along a bubble sub, a personal submersible

639
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:54,000
that can be potted by someone who doesn't have a dive ticket.

640
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,000
Air from a regular tank is pumped into the bubble.

641
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:22,000
Jamie and Stuart take the bait to the bottom.

642
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,000
Microphone text.

643
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:32,000
Respond back to me if you can hear me. Over.

644
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,000
You can hear me calling. This is Jamie. Over.

645
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,000
Roger that. Over.

646
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,000
Are the sharks coming at you?

647
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,000
All around us.

648
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,000
Right. Let the battle commence.

649
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,000
The sharks are all around them.

650
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:08,000
Where busters strikes were random, Jamie's are precise, sticking to the areas specified in the myth.

651
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:11,000
He's also using very little force.

652
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:21,000
It's soon obvious that Jamie's punches aren't making the sharks more aggressive.

653
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:30,000
Adam has a ringside seat just out of the danger zone.

654
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:37,000
Jamie have you done enough punching to come up with a result? Over.

655
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:41,000
Let me think about it a little bit. I'm a little busy right now.

656
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:44,000
Just hitting the mess like hitting the road.

657
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:53,000
And there's more aggressive on the ground. More than a little bit. Over.

658
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,000
I'm going to go get the water.

659
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,000
Could you call a plausible at this point? Over.

660
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:18,000
I definitely don't see that punching them is making them angry.

661
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:26,000
I mean, I'm defending this and they seem to be responding.

662
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:30,000
They know I'm guarding the bait box and they're not coming in as tight as they were.

663
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:48,000
They're just swimming around. It's obvious they don't like even being poked.

664
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,000
You could really pretty much do this and get the same result.

665
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:08,000
The front of the shark, the nose is like bone. I'm sure it's cartilage instead.

666
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,000
It's just, you know, knock knock. They don't respond to it too much either.

667
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:17,000
Punching in the soft sides along the gills or whatever, you can do it.

668
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,000
And they seem to actually respond to it.

669
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:24,000
I felt like I was actually defending the bait box by punching at them.

670
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:28,000
I did not feel them like getting angry at me or...

671
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:32,000
So, shark punching, busted, plausible or confirmed?

672
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:40,000
I would have to say plausible. I don't think it's a 100% way to defend yourself depending on the circumstances.

673
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:46,000
But I tell you what, if you get bit by a shark and they're going for it, I'd be punching at them.

674
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,000
I think I'd be punching at anything that was biting me.

675
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,000
Ha ha ha.

676
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,000
Up next, a shark ram showdown.

677
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:03,000
And later, they've got a loaded scuba tank and a loaded gun.

678
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:06,000
Will the result look like this?

679
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:11,000
The Shark Force

680
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:20,000
There's no record of a great white ever attacking and smashing a shark cage.

681
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:25,000
But when you look at the size of some of them, it's easy to imagine.

682
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:30,000
Down at the dock, it's time to move on to the Shark Force tests.

683
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,000
I'd say that's as pretty as you please.

684
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:36,000
The Charamers going into action.

685
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,000
The Charammer will be hooked up to the personnel carrier,

686
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:49,000
which will then deliver its payload head on at a speed of 25 miles per hour.

687
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:53,000
The result should look something like this.

688
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:02,000
Even with a steel dorsal fin, the Charammer doesn't look as scary as Bruce,

689
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,000
the fake shark in Jaws.

690
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:09,000
But it is more like a real shark when it comes to weight and buoyancy.

691
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:18,000
I measure the shark to be about 513 feet away from the target.

692
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,000
Alright, here we go.

693
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,000
We're standing by to start the track vehicle ever.

694
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:31,000
The Ram is the same length and weight as a mature great white.

695
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:35,000
It's about to become a Jau Pido.

696
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,000
I mean we're waiting on your signal to cow.

697
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:42,000
Okay, we're go.

698
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:49,000
The MTVL will stop at a preset distance, so the rope goes slack before the collision.

699
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:55,000
That means the Charammer is not being towed, but traveling under its own momentum

700
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,000
when it strikes the cage at 25 miles per hour.

701
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,000
An estimated top speed of a great white shark.

702
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,000
Yeah!

703
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:19,000
Man, was that close to going in the drink.

704
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,000
Well, that was cool.

705
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:25,000
It flipped around a little bit, but it did what it would do.

706
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,000
I mean, we had an impact.

707
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,000
I saw the cage on the Charammer. I didn't see it before.

708
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,000
The shark took part of the cage out.

709
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,000
Look at that.

710
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,000
So, look what's on the shark.

711
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,000
Is that a piece of the cage?

712
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:39,000
It's like it went right through it.

713
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,000
Bullseye!

714
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,000
The Ram is undamaged.

715
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,000
Adam's cage, on the other hand...

716
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:49,000
I mean, obviously it's such a massive amount of force, but really we've not seen any evidence.

717
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:52,000
It's all based on estimation, the 25 mile an hour mark.

718
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,000
There's no data that shows the shark swimming that fast.

719
00:56:55,000 --> 00:57:00,000
Nor is there any information that shows that a shark actually made it into a cage.

720
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,000
Like, you know, that they actually penetrated a cage.

721
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:07,000
Nonetheless, that's Mythbusters 2, Jaws 1.

722
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,000
Time for the final test.

723
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:24,000
In Jaws, the ferocious fish springs a surprise,

724
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:28,000
not to mention several leaks, when it rams the orca.

725
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:33,000
Outside of Hollywood, there's no record of a shark ever attacking a boat this big.

726
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:38,000
Nevertheless, this grand old lady's going to get a grand old pummeling.

727
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:44,000
To maximize the damage, the Orca 5 is positioned so that the Charammer will hit the flattest part of the hull.

728
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,000
Okay, go!

729
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:50,000
The military hardware launches a final assault.

730
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:12,000
3,000 pounds connects at 25 miles per hour.

731
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:15,000
Oh, Cameron the water!

732
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:18,000
That's the perfect hit.

733
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:23,000
Now, I mean, I'm a little disappointed that we didn't, like, go all the way through it, but...

734
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:27,000
My shark went belly up, but it definitely pierced the side.

735
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,000
It's a Mythbusters first.

736
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:34,000
The experiment is to see if it's a good idea to get a fish out of the water.

737
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:38,000
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to get a fish out of the water.

738
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,000
It's a Mythbusters first.

739
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:45,000
The experiment's finished and the boat still floats.

740
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:04,000
This, I think, is definitively plausible that 3,000 pounds of shark could make some damage to your boat,

741
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:08,000
even though no Great White has ever been caught sinking a boat of this size.

742
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:11,000
Yeah, you get a big fish going real fast.

743
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,000
What do you expect?

744
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:28,000
After all this shark-strength testing, what are our final results?

745
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:32,000
Well, clearly an average-sized Great White could not pull a boat backwards.

746
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:36,000
And, I mean, even though a Great White could probably pull those barrels down,

747
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,000
it couldn't keep them down there as it was in the movie.

748
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:39,000
Not continuously?

749
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:40,000
Not continuously, no.

750
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:41,000
So those two are busted?

751
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:43,000
Those two are definitely busted.

752
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:47,000
But on the other hand, we showed that a Great White could work its way through a shark cage,

753
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:51,000
probably depending on how it was built, but it went right through ours.

754
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:56,000
And it would also be conceivable that a shark could, given the right circumstances,

755
00:59:56,000 --> 01:00:00,000
plow through a wooden boat hull.

756
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:05,000
Well, then I would call that Myth Busters 2, Jaws Shark Myths 2.

757
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,000
That's two all, yeah?

758
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:08,000
Yeah.

759
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:13,000
After the break, the explosive climax to our shark-weak Jaws Tackler.

760
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:28,000
Time to put the exploding Scuba Tank Myth under the gun.

761
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:32,000
We know a bullet can penetrate a tank's thick aluminum base.

762
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:37,000
But that tank was empty.

763
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:40,000
Next, we got one charged tank.

764
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:43,000
This one should be somewhat exciting.

765
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:50,000
This tank contains 80 cubic feet of compressed air stored at 3,000 psi.

766
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:57,000
Now, there's a slim chance the bullet might damage the tank, but not actually rupture it.

767
01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:01,000
If that happens, the FBI will have to blow it up.

768
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:04,000
A strip of C4 is taped to the tank.

769
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:08,000
C4 explosive is a nerd, and so won't be set off by the bullet.

770
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:11,000
Right, we're locked and loaded.

771
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:12,000
I'm ready.

772
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:15,000
Any more bold predictions before we pull the trigger?

773
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:17,000
I'm ready!

774
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,000
I think we're going to poke a hole in it.

775
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:23,000
I think there'll be a really loud noise or maybe even a little bit of a rupture,

776
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:26,000
but I don't believe this is going to be like a bomb going off.

777
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:30,000
What I'm hoping for is to come around the corner and find the container

778
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:35,000
bowed out in every possible way from the force of the blast.

779
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:39,000
Now, if everyone could just cower behind the nearest masonry.

780
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:41,000
Starting the trigger now.

781
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:53,000
The tank took off like the proverbial rocket.

782
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:58,000
Propelled around the container by a jet of compressed air.

783
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:05,000
It looks like it collected a little paint from the red primer.

784
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,000
Hey, Sharky's still alive!

785
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:11,000
We got a beautiful shot right dead center of the bottom of the tank.

786
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:14,000
The tank did not actually split all the way open.

787
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:17,000
In fact, it shot like a rocket and bounced around in here

788
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:22,000
and tore up some of the back of our Sharky, but didn't explode.

789
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:27,000
So is this myth, like the Shark and Jaws, dead in the water?

790
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:28,000
Not quite.

791
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:33,000
Given the vagaries of movie editing, one could posit that the bullet

792
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:37,000
entered the side of the tank at the end of Jaws, and I'm sure if we didn't do it,

793
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:40,000
our fans would take us to task for not trying that.

794
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:44,000
So we're going to do that before we call this myth totally busted.

795
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:49,000
Will a bullet blasting right through the sides of a tank cause a more explosive reaction?

796
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,000
And then you aim right for there.

797
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:54,000
And our old Fred is force fed a fresh tank.

798
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:58,000
In three, two, one!

799
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:07,000
I don't know, it sounds like it might have been the same thing.

800
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:10,000
That's not an explosion, that's a hole.

801
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:13,000
I don't know that we've ever completed one so fast before.

802
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,000
I don't know what to do with the rest of the day.

803
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:21,000
It's the same result as before.

804
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:23,000
The tank ricocheted around.

805
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:25,000
The bullet didn't make it all the way through.

806
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:31,000
There's the first hole, and there's the dent for the other hole.

807
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,000
The hole is just too small.

808
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:39,000
The metal in this case is strong enough to hold itself together to withstand an impact,

809
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:42,000
even with all that pressure behind it, without rupturing the tank.

810
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:45,000
This is myth buster, so next we have to make an explosion.

811
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,000
We're just going to blow up the tank.

812
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:50,000
It's the FBI's moment of glory.

813
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:52,000
Another full tank is placed in position.

814
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:56,000
This time the C4 will be remote detonated.

815
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:01,000
Fire in the hole!

816
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,000
I didn't know they really said that.

817
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:15,000
Now that's more like it.

818
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:20,000
The shockwave knocked over light stands, and there's a nice dent in the container.

819
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,000
Whoa!

820
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,000
That's amazing.

821
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,000
And as for Fred...

822
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,000
Anybody up for sushi?

823
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:36,000
So do you guys think that any circumstances a bullet would do this?

824
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,000
No.

825
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:43,000
It ain't happening with a gun, and worsty would have gotten that shock,

826
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:46,000
would have slammed backwards pretty quick for a few seconds.

827
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:49,000
This is actually a lot like our explosive decompression story,

828
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:54,000
in that a small hole does not a catastrophic failure of the structure make.

829
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:58,000
Just like on an airplane that can manage the pressure, even with a bullet hole in it,

830
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:02,000
these tanks don't turn into bombs when you fire bullets into them.

831
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:04,000
They turn into rockets.

832
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:08,000
The final sequence of jars, I'm sorry to say, is totally busted.