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Please, don't try anything that you're about to see us do at home. Ever.

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This is either madness or presence.

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Yee-haw!

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Adam Savage

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Time for science!

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And Jamie Heineman

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Who's that beautiful or what?

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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It bleeds! Let's go!

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Joining them, Grant Imahara

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Don't give up on me now!

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Tori Bellegi

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And that's how we like it.

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And Carrie Byron

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High explosives and electricity, woo!

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They don't just tell the Myths, they put them to the test.

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Pirates!

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Yee-haw!

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Apparently we haven't done enough pirate myths.

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Who says we have an old run-em-strike through the scurvy door?

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The fans!

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In the lords of W-wait, wait, wait.

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Instead of killing them all, why don't we take a few more suggestions?

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Roy and do a Mythbusters Pirate Special Number 2!

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Another excuse to not bathe for weeks!

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The last time the Mythbusters stopped bathing, four maritime myths walked the plank.

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Slowing a fall with a knife sail hit the deck.

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And rum as a stain remover was...

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Ah! Busted!

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So was the nautical notion that wooden shrapnel from a cannonball was lethal.

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The team finally saw the light with eye patches and night vision aids.

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That was like night and night!

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But this veritable feast of fables merely scratched the surface.

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Six, nine, seven, nine, eight, nine, nine, three.

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Ah, you threw off my count!

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You're too much of a landlubber to be in that outfit.

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You get seasick.

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I don't need to go on the sea for this technique,

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so let me check this out.

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It's a pirate submarine.

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I take a rowboat and turn it upside down, and I get inside.

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And I walk from the shore into the water,

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and I see a sea of water.

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I'm gonna take a boat out of the water,

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and I'm gonna take a boat out of the water,

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and I'm gonna put the shore into the water,

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and the rowboat keeps a pocket of air so I can make my way out to my enemies

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and deal with them in a way they would never see coming.

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I'm not so sure about that. That sounds like a myth to me.

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Well, that's what we're here to find out.

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In need of a quick escape,

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our irrepressible hero flips a rowboat to use as a submarine.

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But in the real world,

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would this fun-filled filmic fable go belly up?

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What's the plan, Adam?

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Well, I'm glad you've asked it, my non-pirate friend.

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I've thought about this at length,

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and I've considered it since I get to sit on the sea.

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I'd like to do this whole experiment in a swimming pool.

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Okay, well, we'll get, like, some ramps

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that we can walk down into the pool with,

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and we gotta find a boat.

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Exactly!

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Because of Adam's history of hurling on the high seas,

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the team drop anchor in the calm waters of the Fremont Pool in Oakland.

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Okay, if you can push.

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On route, they stopped in at the rowboat store,

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which means they have all they need

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to recreate the mythical movie scene in question.

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Using a ramp, they'll walk the upturn boat into the shallow end of the pool

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before heading out of their depth to test its submarine-like properties.

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Oh, bloody hell, that's heavy.

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Oh, my God. That's really heavy.

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It's getting lighter.

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Okay.

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There we go. Let's move forward. Come on.

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With the weight supported on the water's surface,

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our potential submariners begin their descent.

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Okay, you're getting into deeper water.

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We'll find out if the boat comes with us.

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Are you?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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That's the real problem, man.

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I feel like I'm floating.

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Well, the first test went as well as could be expected.

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There is indeed a breathable pocket of air in the boat,

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but the boat didn't sink.

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Well, that didn't work at all.

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Nope, our not-so-stealthy pirates were left high and wet.

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But despite their failure,

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Adam isn't ready to consign this myth to Davy Jones' locker quite yet.

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Here's the problem. Humans are neutrally buoyant.

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We go into the water being mostly water.

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We don't weigh anything.

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We're not applying any downforce to this boat.

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But in our research, we turned up that pirates wore tons of crap

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cutlasses and curasses and daggers and bunderbusses and all that sort of stuff.

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Specifically, Yellowbird was supposed to have worn 30 pounds of stuff.

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30 pounds. There you go, buddy.

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So Jamie and I are going to put 30 pounds each on our bodies,

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try this test again, and see if we get any more of a positive result.

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Adam and Jamie with 60 pounds of pirate bling and weaponry

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once again attempt to slide beneath the water in their makeshift submersible.

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But will the excess baggage help?

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Here we go again.

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While Adam and Jamie head for deeper waters,

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why don't we join Carrie Grant and Tori for a mythical pirate torture technique?

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The myth we're working on is called sand necktie.

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Alright, that be pirate fashion?

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Actually, this one's about sand.

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The idea is that pirates would bury their prisoners up to the neck,

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at the shore, at low tide, so when the tide came in, they'd drown a torturous death.

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So what we're looking at is whether you can escape or not, right?

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Exactly.

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It's a myth with a morbid fascination,

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buried alive with water views.

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But is the pirate sand necktie really a certain death sentence?

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Or could you dig your way out of your vertical, shallow grave?

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Okay, so what's the plan?

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Well, some people think it's not the drowning that killed the prisoners,

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but the pressure of the sand that it would just, it would close in around you like a bow constrictor.

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Oh, that sounds pretty easy.

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So we go to the beach, we dig a big hole, we put Tori in, and see if he passes out.

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If he doesn't pass out, then we can see if he escapes.

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Wait, don't I get to say this at all?

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No.

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No.

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So it's a simple plan that involves Cap'n Limpi and Cab'n Boy, Imahara,

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burying Tortuga Tori to the neck.

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Hey, there's the X mark spot.

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Oh, there's the treasure.

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There's the treasure.

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All right, start digging, mates.

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First up, a vertical grave.

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Why am I digging my own hole?

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Well away from the rising tide for safety, from which Tori will attempt to escape.

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That's if he doesn't suffocate from the constriction first.

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I don't have time to deal with that ye olde pirate trick where you have to use a shovel to dig a hole.

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We're in a modern world, we're modern people, and I'm a modern pirate.

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I'm using heavy machinery.

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You know, watching Carrie dig this ditch and knowing that I'm going to be up to my neck in sand,

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it's kind of like watching her dig my grave.

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I hope I don't regret saying that.

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You could say Tori's got some grave doubts.

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Perfect, right up to your neck.

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That's good.

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As a precaution against hypothermia, Tori will wear a wetsuit.

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Why am I doing this?

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Could somebody tell me?

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No, but how about giving us a prediction just the same?

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My prediction, I'm going to get buried up to my neck and I won't be able to move at all.

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I don't think I'm going to be able to get out.

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I think I'm going to freak out, call everybody to come in, and dig me out.

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You're going to be okay, you'll be fine.

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We're going to be here the entire time.

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Let's get this over with.

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What are we doing?

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Oh, he's up to his toes.

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Oh gee, he's up to his knee.

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With torturing Tori on the agenda, Cary and Grant are as happy as any pirate could be.

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Strangely, Tori isn't having nearly as much fun.

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I'm probably going to check out a little bit, so don't be offended if I don't answer your questions.

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I'm trying to remain calm here.

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Calm breathing will be important, because as Sanjay explains,

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another name for this myth could be dead man's chest.

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Well, one of the biggest problems I can see is that as we breathe,

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our chest wall expands to allow our lungs to expand to have the air exchange happen in our lungs.

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Well, with the sand up against his chest and all that pressure,

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he's not going to be able to take normal size breaths.

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It touches on all of the major phobias and fears, being buried alive, drowning, claustrophobia.

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I mean, he's in a hole. The tide is coming in.

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To imagine a pirate having to die this way, it's terrifying.

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Cue Captain Limpi.

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Oh, fiddle, we're up to your middle.

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And her buried alive verse.

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I'm in a bad pirate.

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Sung to cheer up her captive audience.

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Oh heck, I'm up to his neck.

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Cary and Grant start the clock on Tori's escape attempt.

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Okay, I'm ready to go.

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All right, what I'm doing right now is I'm just wiggling my fingers

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just to kind of make room for my hand and see if I can actually free my arm.

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That's funny because it just doesn't look like you're moving at all.

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And that's a problem because in addition to his fear of small rodents and the color purple,

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it turns out he doesn't like being buried alive.

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Okay, can you guys be ready with shovels?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Because I'm noticing that as I'm realizing that I can't move,

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that it's starting to freak me out.

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Coming up on Mythbuster, Adam and Jamie find out if their pirate bling will drag them down.

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It's the Mythbuster's pirate special sequel.

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Adam and Jamie have already failed to turn an upturned rowboat into a makeshift submarine.

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They're simply two buoyant and couldn't pull the boat to the bottom of the pool.

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But they're about to find out if 60 pounds of pirate accessories are enough ballast

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to sink them and their precious pocket of air.

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They're going to go up to push.

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Okay, here we go.

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There we go.

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Okay, pull.

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No.

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That's not happening.

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No, it's not happening.

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It's pretty much the same as the one the last time.

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Pretty much exactly the same.

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Well, what do you think?

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I think this one's a bust.

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I think this, you know, okay, so we added an extra of 60 pounds.

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I think there's a lot more than 60 pounds of displacement here.

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I'd like to find out exactly how much.

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With the Myths sinking fast, the guys want some answers.

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And to get them, they've got another testing month.

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And this time, wearing scuba gear, they're going down with the boat.

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We're going to anchor ourselves to the bottom of this pool, about 500 pounds of barbell weights.

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We're going to put the boat down there full of water and fill it with air and see if we can hold on to it

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while it's gotten unfair for us to breathe it.

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This will be the definitive test.

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If they can't hold down their pirate submarine with all that extra weight, the Myths are bust.

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You ready to do this? Everything's set up.

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At the bottom, they anchor themselves to a quarter ton of barbells,

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grab hold of the boat, and then blow bubbles into the reservoir above them,

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filling it with the smallest of breathable air pockets.

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Bye.

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They just can't hang on.

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And this Myth floats off to wherever busted Myths float off to.

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Okay, you see how we've got barbell weights hanging from the boat itself?

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We had to put 200 pounds onto the boat just to offset the buoyancy of the wood

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before we even got airing to it.

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That's how much buoyancy we're talking about.

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Then you put air in and Jamie and I couldn't hold on to it with 500 pounds.

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There is no way that under anything remotely approaching a normal circumstance,

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a human could hold a breathable pocket of air by himself at the bottom of the ocean.

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Well, something tells me we're not quite done yet though.

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Oh no.

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Yes, they're going to appease the curiosity gods by running the numbers.

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I think it's time to quantify just how much weight it's going to take to hold that boat down.

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The way we're going to find that out is by filling it with water and weighing,

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keeping track of the weight of the water that we put into it until it sinks.

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Okay, it's a complicated thing, but basically Adam and Jamie are going to flip this Myth on its head.

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By overcoming the boat's buoyancy, they'll know how much force or weight it would take to hold down a boat full of air.

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So there's going to be a whole lot of bailing in reverse.

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Eight.

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Each of these buckets holds 40 pounds of water.

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40.

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And after 2000 pounds of H2O and barbells.

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Yeah, that's it.

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Now it's coming over the side over there.

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Adam and Jamie know exactly why this myth is sunk.

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All right, so it took 2000 pounds of water and barbell weights combined to sink this boat in practical terms.

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What that means is if you're trying to hold this boat upside down full of air at the bottom of the ocean,

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that there's 2000 pounds of force pulling upwards.

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So even if you were job of the hut and weighed enough to hold the boat down,

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your arms would still have an out of body experience.

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They would be ripped out of their sockets.

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You couldn't do it.

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So there's just one outstanding question.

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How did Cap and Jack Sparrow do it in the movie?

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The sequence has three key shots.

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Entering the water, the submerged walk at the bottom of the ocean,

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and finally the pirate's safe in their air bubble.

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Shot the first pirate's Jamie and Adam seeking to evade detection.

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Walk their boat into the water.

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Here we go.

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This one's pretty simple.

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No special effects needed here.

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Oh, I think it's working.

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Right, shot the second pre-drilled holes and wait to make the boat sink.

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Jamie and Adam inside with special small air tanks.

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Ready?

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Here we go.

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With a neutrally buoyant boat and concealed air tanks,

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our pirates can defy physics and walk their submersible along the ocean floor.

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Shot number three, Jamie and Adam, the pirates from inside the boat.

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Ready?

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Go!

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Supposedly at the bottom of the ocean,

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they're actually walking the upturn boat along the surface.

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Are you excited?

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Yeah.

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Cut it as strong as solid time it is.

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So there you have it.

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Hollywood's special effects uncovered.

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A physics-defying sequence made into reality with some clever behind-the-scenes work.

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It's all a bunch of movie magic we've done for your benefit.

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Movie magic things, pretty cool.

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I really think we can make a go for it.

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What do you think?

290
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Sure, why not?

291
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Let's make special effects with her.

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You know, Adam, it's perfectly clear.

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There's just no way that two men could hold a boat underwater

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if it's got a pocket of breathable air in it.

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It'd be too buoyant.

296
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Right, and it didn't work with the dam either.

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Yeah, so the myth is busted?

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Busted, totally busted, busted.

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But wait, there's more.

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That's right, if you want to learn more about buoyancy

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and exactly why this myth was busted,

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then simply log on to www.discovery.com.

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Slash myth busters and get more.

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Later.

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What are you doing, my cannon?

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Adam and Jamie wheel out the big guns,

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but first, will Tari lose his head?

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This is scary, I'm not gonna lie.

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Pirates are an intrinsic part of modern-day entertainment.

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I mean, who doesn't love a camp pirate musical extravagance?

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But let's not forget, back in the day,

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they prowled the high seas with murderous intent.

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I take what I want and I want what I take.

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Ha-ha-ha-ha!

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Crossing paths with a corsair could be fatal

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if we'd be able to offer this to our followers.

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the Corsair could be fatal in any number of imaginative ways.

318
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But surely the worst was the mythical sand necktie.

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Buried to the neck, the incoming tide ensured a gruesome, claustrophobic death.

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Or did it?

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Tortugatori, up to his neck in it, is attempting to find out.

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This is scary. I'm not going to lie.

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But despite losing his head for the five minutes he was locked in position,

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Tori eventually manages to free one of his arms.

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Hey! Oh my gosh.

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There you go. It's a good start.

327
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You know, if you can get one hand free, you can dig yourself out.

328
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Now that my arm's free, I feel much better.

329
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Tori may feel better, but freedom is still a long way off.

330
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Well, we're a little bit past the 30 minute mark.

331
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He seems to be doing pretty well, except I'm noticing that he's digging in

332
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and then he has a cave in. And it's like he has to start all over again.

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God!

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You know what? I welcome the tide now.

335
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With Tori ready to end it all, Karrion Grant's step up to boost morale.

336
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Right. Here we have a very rare sight, the burrowing belaychi.

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He's almost formed his little burrow.

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And that'll be his home for the next five years.

339
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And what do you know? The burrowing belaychi musters his energy and...

340
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Yeah!

341
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Yeah!

342
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That is 86 minutes.

343
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After an hour and a half of extreme science,

344
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Tori must be feeling on top of the world. Right?

345
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Gosh, this whole experience pretty much sucked from the beginning.

346
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The only time it sounded kind of fun was when we were in the office saying,

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hey, do you want to get buried up to your neck in sand?

348
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And I was like, yeah, that sounds kind of fun.

349
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But getting out of it was really hard.

350
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It's taken me over an hour to dig my way out of this hole.

351
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The escape casts doubt over the myth that the infamous sand necktie

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will give you a bad case of dead, but Tori was buried in dry sand

353
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well away from the incoming tide.

354
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Until they test the lethality under those conditions, this myth is still alive.

355
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The End

356
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You know, Jamie, I've always pondered.

357
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What would pirates do if they were in a battle and they ran out of cannonballs?

358
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They'd improvise. You know, they'd just grab anything they had handy and shove it down the barrel.

359
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That sounds like something we should test.

360
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You got it.

361
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In this movie myth, when the ship hits the fan and there's no cannonballs left on board,

362
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you can supposedly blast your enemy with whatever's on hand.

363
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But what would happen in real life with this improvised ammunition

364
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lead to a ballistics bullseye? Or is it just fantasy physics?

365
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Well, accepting pirate booty, what would you find on a pirate ship

366
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that you can cram down a barrel and fire at the enemies?

367
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Well, let me think. The first thing that comes to my mind would be silverware, like cutlery.

368
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Oh, that's good. I guess if you were desperate, you could use bottles of rum and wine.

369
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Chain. Nails.

370
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Well, and then if you're really hard up, I mean, you are a pirate after all,

371
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so you could take off your wooden peg leg and you could fire that.

372
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Well, you'd have to be very, very desperate, but that sounds great. Let's try.

373
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As plans go, this one's as simple as it gets.

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Jamie and Adam will gather the ad hoc ammunition they've chosen to test.

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It's a genuine bonafide pirate peg leg.

376
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And make their way down to the Alameda County bomb disposal range to fire it from a cannon.

377
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And the artillery in question has a familiar muzzle.

378
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Look at that.

379
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Look, see an old friend.

380
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How you doing there, old buddy?

381
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Of course, old friend, old Moses and Cavineer Harry Webb have had a blast with the Mythbusters before.

382
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And because they can do that, it's no surprise they've been invited back.

383
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My buddy, old Moses here is a replica of an 1841 six pound ball cannon,

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and it fires that six pound ball at about 900 miles an hour.

385
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So, Harry, are you okay with us shooting pretty much anything we decide to put in the cannon?

386
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Certainly, within reason. I mean, it has to be under three and a quarter inches and under 12 pounds,

387
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just for the stress of the gun, but anything you can fit down there that qualifies for that is fine with me.

388
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With Harry's blessing, they can begin prepping old Moses for firing.

389
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And unfortunately for everyone with an ear shot, Adam can get into character.

390
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What are you doing with my cannon? Hold it right there.

391
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Who told me that we had no cannonballs?

392
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I want you to take everything we've got on the ship, shove it down that barrel and shoot it in that bow.

393
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We're not just standing there.

394
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Are we going to have to listen to this all day?

395
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Yes.

396
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Next.

397
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Bottle of red, bottle of white, whatever kind of mood you're in tonight.

398
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Adam and Jamie begin firing their improvised ammo.

399
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Wow. That's so percussive.

400
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On location at the bomb disposal range.

401
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,000
What do you mean we ain't got no cannonballs?

402
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Jamie and Adam are on course for some Caribbean cannonball chaos.

403
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It's a bit hot being a pirate.

404
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They're testing the myth that improvised ammo will work in place of regular cannonballs.

405
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Perfect.

406
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And to do that, they need a target.

407
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Some way of gauging and comparing the performance of the different types of ammo.

408
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If you've watched MythMasters before, you know that pigs are often used by them as human analogs.

409
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Lucky for us, there's not a big difference between humans and pirates.

410
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So he makes an excellent pirate analog.

411
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And now, a short break to hear from our partners on the Pirate Channel.

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Welcome back pirates to the Pirate Channel's household hints.

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If you're like me, you've found yourself in the heat of battle without a cannonball.

414
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And I'd like to suggest a few things you might shove down that barrel for maximum damage.

415
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Of course, you can run to the mass hall and use whatever pirate cutlery you've got.

416
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I like this method just fine, but if I've got steak knives, if my men are eating well, these are much more effective.

417
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Nails are also very good.

418
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Shove a bunch of them down the barrel so I can pirate flesh that gun.

419
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I like the chain for eliminating five or six people at a time.

420
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Off the deck.

421
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And if you're pirate subscribed to the Geneva Convention, the old pirate rum is ideal because it creates wounds.

422
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They are pre-disinfected.

423
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Grape shot is, of course, the most loveliest, but if you find yourself without any of these, don't fear.

424
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You can always use your own peg leg as a weapon.

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While Adam's been working on his career in daytime pirate TV, Jamie's done, you know, some work.

426
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You want sawdust in there?

427
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Put sawdust in the middle of it.

428
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Under the careful tuition of our resident cannon expert, Harry, he's packed the ammo for the first test.

429
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First up is grape shot. This is kind of a control because this is an actual thing that pirates would have used.

430
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They're basically just balls and you shoot a whole bunch of them out of the cannon.

431
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It's kind of like a great big shotgun.

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And for a great big shotgun, you need lots of gunpowder, which the team carefully load

433
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before sliding the grape shot canister down the barrel.

434
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Okay, test number one.

435
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Remember, this is a control using legitimate period accurate ammunition.

436
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It'll be the point of comparison for what's to follow.

437
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Fire! Three, two, one!

438
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Oh, wow.

439
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All right.

440
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I think it hit him.

441
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I'm pretty sure that's a palpable hit.

442
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Yep, Porky the Pirate took a hit.

443
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A hit with at least enough force to knock him off his hook.

444
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I don't have anything to say about this.

445
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It's astonishing.

446
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Oh, look, really, you should just be watching the high speed.

447
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Check out the high speed.

448
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Do you see what I'm talking about?

449
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This grape shot is deadly.

450
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That's our control.

451
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That's what we're going to compare all the other types of things we're shooting out of this cannon.

452
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So what's next on the menu?

453
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So in the middle of a battle, you haven't got anything hard or metallic to shove in your cannon.

454
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Maybe you go for the stores and we thought broken glass.

455
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So what we've got is a bottle of red, a bottle of white, whatever kind of mood you're in tonight.

456
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But Jamie thinks this movie myth is going to go up in smoke.

457
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The glass is going to shatter right off the bat.

458
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The shock wave is going to disintegrate the glass.

459
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The liquid is just going to vaporize.

460
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:25,000
I wouldn't be surprised to see just little flecks of glass on the pig and that's about it.

461
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,000
You like your pork marinated in wine?

462
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Sparring. Three, two, one.

463
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That's so percussive.

464
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,000
Did someone mention percussion?

465
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,000
Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture.

466
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With artillery explosions written into the score, it's the perfect Mythbusters soundtrack.

467
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Exactly what I said it was going to be. It's got little flecks of glass on the surface.

468
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,000
Oh, there's one that actually went in a little bit.

469
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It looks like it, right through the claw.

470
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Grows.

471
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000
I don't think you'd die from that.

472
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000
No, it would hurt, but it's not like you'd kill a whole bunch of people.

473
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You'd have a bunch of people who are annoyed and smelled like wine.

474
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Yeah, maybe kind of bloody.

475
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Let's set up again.

476
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Okay.

477
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So bottles of rock are busted as improvised ammo, but that's only the first item on this menu of mayhem.

478
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Coming up.

479
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Caca! Caca!

480
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Grant calls the crabs for help.

481
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But first, Adam and Jamie are aiming to find out if...

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That pig.

483
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...will survive another barrage of improvised ammo.

484
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:58,000
Adam and Jamie are tackling the tall tale of improvised ammunition.

485
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:03,000
They have a period accurate cannon, a pirate pig for cannon fodder,

486
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,000
and a range of mythical movie inspired ammunition.

487
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,000
So what's next to test?

488
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,000
I tell you what I want to see from this.

489
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,000
Why I'm so excited about doing this is I want to see one of these spoons like...

490
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:21,000
Sticking right out of our pig, our pirate.

491
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,000
You got to figure things really suck for you at this point.

492
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,000
You're loading silverware into your cannons.

493
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,000
So is this a case of what you see?

494
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,000
Is what you get, or will the real world results match up?

495
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,000
We're at front.

496
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,000
Three, two, one.

497
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,000
I can't get used to that.

498
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000
I know, it's nothing that makes it comfortable.

499
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,000
I saw like a whole spray. It was awesome.

500
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:58,000
But a closer look at the scene reveals none of the silverware stuck in Porky the pirate pig.

501
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000
I don't see any cutlery in him.

502
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,000
Where's all the cutlery?

503
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,000
Cutlery doesn't work too well.

504
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:11,000
I mean, it's not like it is in the movies where you've got, you know, a fork and a knife and a fork and a knife and a spoon.

505
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:16,000
It does this. It gets all mangled. It goes everywhere. It's not accurate.

506
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:26,000
It's probably lethal to somebody somewhere in the target zone, but it's not like the grape shot where you hit what you aim it at and they're going to be dead.

507
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:35,000
The guys have proved randomly shoving cutlery down the barrel is busted, but silverware still has a shot at making its mark.

508
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:41,000
On the next test, a healthy handful of steak knives is packed into a ballistics friendly container.

509
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,000
That's just scary looking. Look at it. Look at it.

510
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,000
Oh, and right for you.

511
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,000
Let's try it.

512
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,000
The meat knives are locked and loaded. The target is in place.

513
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,000
What's on the menu, Captain Redbeard?

514
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,000
That pig.

515
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:09,000
It seems his reputation as a bloodthirsty scourge of the high seas is accurate.

516
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,000
Burring three, two, one.

517
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,000
Wow.

518
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,000
It's always an adrenaline rush.

519
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Uh-oh. I can see it from here.

520
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,000
What?

521
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,000
We got damage.

522
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,000
We got damage?

523
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000
We got flesh wounds.

524
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,000
Wow. Look at that damage.

525
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:42,000
Yep, on the high speed, the high speed steak knives sighed through their target, alighting them in the canister to keep them compact as they left the muzzle, made a huge difference to the result.

526
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:48,000
Oh, we got some good slices. So we could, based on that, say it'd definitely be lethal.

527
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000
So what's next?

528
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000
Well, why not the pirate leg?

529
00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:02,000
Good. Well, I picture the situation as totally desperate. You just like, right, let's get my leg off.

530
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,000
You take your leg off and shove it in the end of the barrel and you'll fire.

531
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000
You don't have to cut it or anything. Just boop.

532
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Let's see what happens.

533
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,000
And what happens is...

534
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,000
I don't see anything.

535
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,000
The peg leg ceases to exist.

536
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000
Where's my peg leg?

537
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,000
I see a lot of little splinters all over the place.

538
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:37,000
With a pound of 1F black powder sending an explosive shockwave at 900 miles per hour along the 60 inch barrel, it's no surprise the peg leg went away.

539
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,000
No, pirates, never use your wooden leg in a firefight.

540
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,000
Tori is found out if you're up to your neck in it, life can be a beach.

541
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,000
Hey!

542
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,000
Oh my gosh.

543
00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:02,000
But he did escape, casting doubt that the mythical pirate punishment, the sand necktie, is a certain death sentence.

544
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,000
Yeah!

545
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,000
Tori didn't pass out, but he did get out. It just took him an hour and a half to dig his way out.

546
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,000
Yeah, but that was dry sand and this myth is about wet sand.

547
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:17,000
So I think the next logical step is to bury someone up to their neck in wet sand and see if they can escape that.

548
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Yeah, but I think it's just too dangerous to bury somebody that close to the waterline.

549
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:29,000
Maybe what we should do is build a box, fill it with wet sand and have some kind of mechanism so if the person starts freaking out, we can release the sand and they can get out safely.

550
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000
Okay, so who are we going to bury?

551
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:36,000
Well, since Kari's knee's messed up and I'm building the box, looks like it's you.

552
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,000
Arrr!

553
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,000
So this time, cabin boy Imahara will play the part of prisoner.

554
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,000
If you can't breathe, something goes wrong, we need to get him out quickly.

555
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:52,000
We're going to have straps around all the walls that are going to hold the box together.

556
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:58,000
We pop the straps and the wall will collapse and the sand will come out and we'll be able to rescue Grin.

557
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,000
Sand chamber is complete.

558
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:12,000
While Grant and Tori dream of world domination, lets get back to the beach.

559
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,000
Man, we need a new cabin boy, so we're getting rid of you.

560
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Where they set up the sand chamber ready for Grant's incarceration.

561
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,000
Alright, here's the plan.

562
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000
Step one, we build the box.

563
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,000
Step two, we put Grant in the box.

564
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,000
Don't knock on the glass, it upsets the fish.

565
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:32,000
Step three, we fill the box up with sand and water and then we see if Grant can get out.

566
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,000
Tori brings in the mechanical digger to start loading up the sand.

567
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:41,000
And Carrie and Grant organize the water pump to simulate sand conditions close to the shoreline.

568
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000
You know, wet.

569
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,000
All it's left to do is for Grant to put on his wetsuit.

570
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,000
Hey, make sure you cover the poop deck, okay?

571
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Get back in his box.

572
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000
Okay, I'm ran.

573
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,000
That's an interesting experience.

574
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,000
And wait patiently as Carrie and Tori...

575
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,000
It's like watering a little Grant flower.

576
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000
...add enough water and sand to bury him to the neck.

577
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,000
This is a very interesting feeling.

578
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,000
I cannot move my arms at all.

579
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,000
I can wiggle my toes and I can wiggle my fingers.

580
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,000
Alright, this is feeling pretty good. What do you think? We let him go for it?

581
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,000
Alright, pirate, dig your way to freedom.

582
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000
Alright, here I go.

583
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,000
I will be playing the part of the tide.

584
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,000
Whoo, splash, splash!

585
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,000
I got my fingers making a little finger space,

586
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,000
trying to head towards the stomach.

587
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,000
And in fact, making use of my arm being straight up and down

588
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,000
as a path to the top and moving my shoulder,

589
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,000
which is working pretty well.

590
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,000
Safe in the knowledge he can call for the quick release,

591
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,000
Grant Cooley tries to think his way out of his beachside jail.

592
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,000
I think I can do this.

593
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,000
Alright, it's coming in.

594
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000
But that early confidence is misplaced

595
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,000
because after ten minutes of desperate struggling,

596
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:21,000
Grant realizes he may as well have been trying to stop the tide coming in.

597
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Oh, you know what? What are you thinking?

598
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,000
It just hit... I had two open cavities down by my fingers.

599
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,000
They just filled in.

600
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,000
I got two fists full of sand and I can't move anymore.

601
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,000
The higher density of the wet sand,

602
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,000
plus the water Carriantori are adding to simulate the incoming tide,

603
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,000
seals Grant's hands and his fate.

604
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Yeah, that's it. I'm done.

605
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,000
Alright, let's get him out.

606
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,000
How are we going to get him out?

607
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,000
We'll test the safety mechanism.

608
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,000
Okay, I'm getting way far back.

609
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,000
Okay, you ready?

610
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,000
I'm ready to seal this.

611
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,000
Okay, here we go.

612
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,000
Stand back everybody. Three, two, one.

613
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,000
While Grant enjoys an endorphin high from his near-death experience,

614
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:16,000
Tori can explain why this myth was confirmed.

615
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,000
The water is a key factor in this whole experiment.

616
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:24,000
If the water is continually washing over the person buried up to their neck,

617
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,000
there's no way they can get out.

618
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,000
The sand just continues to fill up those gaps

619
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,000
because the water keeps pushing the sand into those gaps.

620
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,000
So, if you're buried up in your neck and you're close to the shoreline,

621
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,000
you're pretty much dead.

622
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,000
Alright, this one's looking confirmed.

623
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000
You can't dig your way out of wet sand.

624
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,000
And I think you would drown before you disfixiate from the pressure on your lungs from the sand.

625
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,000
So, well and all, this is a very dastardly punishment or death.

626
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,000
That's confirmed.

627
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:31,000
But so far, the Cannonball Chaos Myth has yet to live up to its movie inspiration.

628
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,000
What's next? Nails. Nails.

629
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,000
Ye olde nails. Ye olde nails.

630
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,000
Let's set up for Jamie's ye olde flechette gun.

631
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:44,000
If you're wondering, flechette, literally translated from the French, means little arrow.

632
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:49,000
So, flechette rounds are small darts, needles, or nails.

633
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:54,000
And Jamie has the chance to fire this super-sized flechette gun.

634
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,000
You're now a can of nears, sir.

635
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,000
Thank you. That's kind of intense.

636
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Oh, that's bad. Now that is a mortal wound.

637
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:11,000
After all that we've fired at this entrapment pirate,

638
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:17,000
I have to say, ye olde nails are almost as deadly as the great shot.

639
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:22,000
Look at these. Look at the damage they've done to this poor bloke.

640
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,000
That's awful.

641
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,000
Nice big heavy nails like that. You don't want to be in front of them.

642
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000
More. What's next?

643
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,000
Next, our lengths of chain.

644
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,000
A perfectly legitimate thing to find on deck.

645
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,000
Here we go. This one's for glory.

646
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,000
Three, two, one.

647
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,000
Oh, yeah.

648
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,000
Roar!

649
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,000
Let's go look.

650
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:04,000
Oh, wow! Dude, that is wrong. Wow!

651
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:09,000
That's about the most gruesome damage we've ever done to one of our pirates and pigs.

652
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,000
One of our any of our test subjects. That's horrifying.

653
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:17,000
Grusom indeed, friends and family of Porky the Pirate, may wish to look away now.

654
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:22,000
Quite similar. Of all the improvised cannon ammo tested,

655
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,000
the heavy duty chain was easily the most effective.

656
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000
It actually behaved like a bullet.

657
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,000
It just passed right through him. It ricocheted off the hill,

658
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:35,000
landed in the grass a couple hundred feet away, still in one piece.

659
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:42,000
So where do we stand on cannonball alternatives?

660
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,000
The lightweight stuff didn't fare so well.

661
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:50,000
I mean, the peg leg, the wine bottle, the silverware, they just don't have much mass.

662
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:55,000
They kind of disintegrated. I wouldn't want to stand in front of it, but not so good.

663
00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:02,000
Whereas the shop stuff and bladed stuff like the stipe knives and the nails was actually somewhat effective.

664
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:07,000
Yeah, and then the absolute most terrifying thing in the whole deal was that chain.

665
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,000
That was just horrible.

666
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:13,000
Without a doubt, in fact, I'm packing chain for every pillaging trip I take.

667
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:19,000
Pirates.

668
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,000
We've done some good work here.

669
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,000
It ought to tide the fans over for a little while.

670
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,000
What's your favorite letter of the alphabet?

671
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:31,000
Sometimes cute.

672
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,000
See you next time.

673
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,000
Hey you, yeah you, got any ideas?

674
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:45,000
For our viewers special, send them in and if they're good, they're on TV, mate.

675
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:52,000
If they're bad, I will find you, got you and hang your cockers from the yard.

676
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,000
Oh, that's smart.

677
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,000
Well, you were being impolite.

678
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,000
You