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On this episode of Mythbusters, it is now or never.

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Adam and Jamie add new life to a classic myth by turning it upside down.

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Windshield shattered from the impact.

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As they test if there's even a chance to escape from a car that goes belly up underwater.

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It's absolutely the scariest thing I've ever done on this show.

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Ten on the Brown Pants Index.

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And an explosive movie myth sets the scene for chaos in the kitchen.

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Holy moly!

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As Tori Grant and Carrie try stopping a gun from igniting a room full of gas

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by, believe it or not, shooting through milk.

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Well, you shot the milk!

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That's for sure!

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Who are the Mythbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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It's a delicious memory.

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And Jamie Heineman.

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When in doubt, see for.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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Joining them, Tori Bellachy.

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All the name of science.

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Grant Imahara.

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Nothing to test me!

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And Carrie Byron.

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This should be fun.

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They don't just tell the myths.

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They put them to the test.

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We got a problem.

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What's that?

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You remember when we filmed the underwater car episode a few years ago?

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The one where you nearly died inside the car.

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Exactly.

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It turns out that we might not have gone far enough in our testing of that episode.

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We repeatedly had me escape from a car sinking like this in this position, upright.

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When it turns out, we've heard from a lot of fans and professionals that most cars,

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when they go in the drink, actually don't sink like that.

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They actually do what's called turning turtle.

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They go all the way upside down and sink like that.

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And so what's the difference?

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Well, supposedly it's far more disorienting and much more difficult to get out of an upside down car.

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And so you figure that the techniques you used the last time to get out of the car wouldn't work so well?

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Yeah, that's exactly what we've got to find out.

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Coming up to my ankles.

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The first time we tried, the results were clear cut.

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If the water's just up to your ankles, it's easy to exit the car.

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Freedom!

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But when it passes your knees, the pressure disparity between inside and out

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means you'll have to wait till the car fills with water.

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Then open the door and swim to safety.

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But those tests were done right side up.

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And according to Operation Star, that's submerged transport accident research,

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cars sinking in water deeper than 14 feet nearly always turn turtle.

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So where do we start?

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Well, it seems that there are two main problems with the upside down sinking car.

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The first is that when the car turns over, you get totally disoriented and don't know which way is up or down.

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Okay.

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The second is that it's much harder to wait for the car to fill up when your air pocket is where your feet are.

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Let's start with disorientation. I have an idea.

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Okay.

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This is Jamie's Wheel of Misfortune,

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a man-sized hamster tumbler that's purpose-built to not only disorient Adam, but to work underwater.

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This is it.

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Adam will come and stand here like so, and I'll rotate him around and around.

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And when I stop, he can just freely come out like this and he'll swim off in whatever direction he thinks is up.

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It's a straightforward plan that needs just one more thing.

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H2O and plenty of it.

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Okay. Off to the pool.

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They'll need at least eight feet of water, and this dive school's got ten in the deep end.

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Let me explain how this thing's going to break down.

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Jamie and I will walk the disorientation rig into the pool and set it on the bottom.

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Once it's in place, Jamie will position himself next to the rig in full scuba gear, and I will swim down to it.

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Put my feet on the paddles, put my hands in the handles, and put on a pair of blindfold goggles that completely negate my ability to see.

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When I'm ready, Jamie will begin spinning, spinning, spinning.

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I'll have no idea which direction I'll end up in, but when he stops, he'll tap the rig twice, and I will swim whichever direction I think is up.

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And if your car crashes at night, hence the blindfold, that could be a whole lot harder than it sounds.

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You know when you're hanging upside down on the monkey bars and the blood rushes to your head, you feel that pressure?

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I didn't expect this, but I can feel that pressure under water too.

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After 30 seconds of blindfolded spinning, Jamie sets Adam adrift, and without hesitation, he heads straight for the surface.

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In the name of due diligence, they try it again.

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And again.

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With exactly the same result.

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Ha! Found up again!

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You're three for three, huh?

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I am. I think it's your turn to try this rig out.

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I'm game.

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Alright, let's do it.

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Adam's efforts are a kick in the teeth for the myth, so let's see if Jamie's internal compass survives the big spin.

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He'll also do it three times over.

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We came here to find out if it was possible to lose your sense of direction underwater.

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And based on our testing, my feeling is that while there are a lot of cues to tell you which way is up, it's really quite easy to get distracted.

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That blast escape left Jamie geographically embarrassed, so the concept of losing your way upside down now looks like it might hold water.

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So what do you think?

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I think it's all about presence of mind, because on one of the tests, I was having problems with my sinuses and I got a little distracted.

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And for just a moment, when you stopped the rotation, I had no idea which way was up.

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So you think given all the distractions of car accident, your car going into the drink, there really might be something to this?

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Yeah, I mean you're in shock, and given a lack of any prominent cues, I don't think you'd have any way to tell.

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That puts confirming the myth right back in play, but it's also Adam's too easy exit that gives him pause for thought.

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That tells me something significant. It says that in the interest of eliminating variables, we might have actually created too sterile a testing procedure.

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That tells me we need one that's less sterile, we need one that's dirtier, if we need to do this in a real car.

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Now to a myth that bids milk against methane, with a gun in between.

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Alright, we got an explosive myth this time.

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This one comes from the movie Kiss the Girls.

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Cop faces off the bad guy in a kitchen full of gas from the stove.

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The cop wants to shoot the bad guy, but the bad guy reminds him, if you shoot me, the muzzle flash from your gun will ignite the gas, blowing up the kitchen and killing them both.

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The bad guy's already snapped the gas line, and he's holding a cigarette lighter.

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The cop needs to shoot him, but he thinks that the flash from the gun might also ignite the methane.

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So he shoots at success through the milk, but can shooting through liquid really stop the muzzle flash from igniting the gas?

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Alright, so what's planned?

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May I suggest we simply go for it?

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I mean, build a kitchen, fill it full of gas, shoot the gun from the movie once into milk, and once not.

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That's great, and then we'll see if it does in fact ignite the gas and blow up the kitchen.

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So to test the myth that a milk carton will prevent a gun's muzzle flash from igniting a room full of methane, we need to blow up the kitchen.

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But since none of us are willing to volunteer our own personal kitchens, we need to build one.

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Now we're going to be filling this kitchen up with methane gas.

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We don't really know how big of an explosion we're going to get when we ignite the gas.

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So we're building the kitchen out of plywood in 2x4s. That way we don't have any metal shrapnel.

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But most importantly, one of the walls is going to be made out of a breakaway plexiglass.

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So that way we can see what's going on inside the kitchen, and when the gases are ignited, that wall will pop off releasing that pressure wave, so we don't get a huge explosion.

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But even a mid-range explosion might just smash the windows and singe the neighbors.

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So the kit kitchen is flat-packed and delivered, some assembly required to the local bomb range.

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Sometimes the best-order procedure is to just go for it. I mean, find out if we have any merit to the myth at all.

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Just straight out to the bomb range, recreate the circumstances, and blow the thing up.

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Custom-made cabinets, time to hang them.

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To properly restage this movie myth, they'll need more than four walls and a roof.

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This is a gorgeous stove-sink combo you've picked out.

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We'll be cooking the gas in no time.

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With lines like that, you'll need some top-notch actors. And here's our leading man.

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Come on, it's time to go to work.

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It's hard to believe, but this sack of bones is our Morgan Freeman.

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I know. I feel this way every morning, too.

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As for Buster, well, he's been tight-cast again.

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Okay, handcuffs, just like the guy in the movie.

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See that? Looks like I knew what I was doing.

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Now they're ready to dial up the danger with things that go bag, the gun, and the gas.

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All right, get ready for a big boom.

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After the break, we'll see if going straight to a full-scale kitchen was really such a hot idea.

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Carrie Grant and Tori are preparing to see if shooting through milk can really stop a gun from igniting a room full of methane.

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Now, in the movie, the gas line attached to the stove breaks, so we know it's natural gas.

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Now, natural gas is about 85% methane gas, which is very flammable.

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But there's a twist. It's only flammable in certain concentrations.

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Too little methane means not enough fuel for the fire, but add too much methane,

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and there's not enough oxygen molecules to sustain combustion.

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The numerical balance of different substances to cause a reaction is called stoichiometry, and Grant's done his homework.

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So we know that the perfect stoichiometric ratio of methane in air is 5 to 15%.

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So we're going to go right in the middle, say 10%.

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With this volume, which is about 500 cubic feet, we're shooting for 50 cubic feet of methane.

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With the guys and the gun from the movie and the carton of milk set in place,

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we're ready to see if this myth is just Hollywood Hocom.

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We're going to fire the gun through the milk and see what happens.

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Now, if it works out like the hero thinks and nothing happens, then we're going to try it again, but this time without the milk.

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And then we'll see if the room goes up like whoosh.

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To get the right balance of methane to air, they turn on the gas for just 90 seconds.

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All right, filling up the kitchen with methane gas.

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One and a half minutes.

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So here's how it stands. If the kitchen explodes, it's an instant and absolute myth busted.

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All right, this is methane gas with gun and milk.

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In three, two, one.

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Well, you shot the milk.

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That's for sure.

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Explosion. Maybe this myth is true.

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So with milk, there was no gas room boom, which is good news for the myth.

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But what if the mixture of methane and air was wrong and the room is basically incompressible?

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Well, it's easy to test because Grant had the foresight to add a road flare hooked up to an electric match.

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Here we go with the flare. Three, two, one.

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Hey, we got something.

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We got ignition.

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The flare not only proves a point, it clears the air of the flammable gas.

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So far, it looks like our villain was wrong.

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With the gun and the milk, there was no explosion.

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But with the gun alone, it sparked a blast anyway. It's time to reload.

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All right, so kitchen is filling.

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As soon as we hit a minute and 30 seconds, fire the gun.

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You think the milk stopped the muzzle flash? You think it's going to explode?

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I don't know, but we're about to find out.

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We sure are in around about three, two, one.

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With the muzzle flash unmuffled by milk, nothing happened.

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Okay. All right, no explosion.

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If the scene in the movie was based on hard science, that single shot should have triggered a massive explosion.

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Now to fire the flare to confirm that the gas mix was right.

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Whoa!

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So we were at the right ratio.

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Yet the bullet did not ignite the methane gas.

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Which means the milk did not stop the muzzle flash from lighting the methane gas.

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The bad news for this myth is that this did not happen because of muzzle flash from a gun.

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This happened because of a flare.

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So what we need to do now is figure out what exactly is going on with this myth

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and what can possibly cause a roomful of methane to go up.

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Up next, Adam and Jamie with a car-sinking rig that should take your breath away.

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There's a lot of moving parts to this one.

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That pool test was actually pretty interesting.

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Yeah, it was. There was just a brief moment when I was distracted by my sinuses

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and I honestly didn't know which way was up.

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So you think there might actually be something to this story?

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Then I don't think there's anything to do now but go full scale.

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Adam and Jamie have figured the only fair way to test their myth

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is to put Adam inside a real car and drop man and machine in a real lake.

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Well, I am standing on the edge of Pit 232, a former quarry lake in sunny Ion, California

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which may look familiar to the careful viewer because we shot a couple stories here before.

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Right out there in the middle, we did this.

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And then right over there is the ramp where we did this.

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Now we are about to do this.

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All right. I only have a couple more breaths here.

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Except this time we are adding an extra wrinkle of jeopardy just to make sure we've covered all our bases.

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It's time to sink an upside down car with me in it.

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Let's face it, a car like this could only benefit from being dropped in a lake.

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Time will tell if the same holds true for Adam.

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That's perfect. We can lower it down.

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In the interests of relative safety and good science, they won't launch the car,

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dukes of hazard style, off a ramp and into the drink.

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Instead, to guarantee that the car turns turtle, they'll use a barge,

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a tow truck, six empty barrels and more rope than a rodeo.

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Here's the plan in a nutshell.

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Okay, so we're going to tie a rope to the back bump of our test car on a barge in the middle of the lake.

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The other end of that rope goes to a pickup truck on the shore,

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which, at the correct signal, will drive forward pulling our test car off the barge.

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Now our test car, being a normal car with an engine, is front heavy

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from the rear end will actually pull it all the way over until it's upside down.

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Just to make sure the car doesn't punch the very bottom of the lake,

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we've got six 55 gallon drums making sure that it's secure at a relatively safe depth of 15 feet.

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It's as risky a stunt as they've ever attended.

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So Jamie's understandably fussing the detail.

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Given that this is a one shot deal, we're going to weld guide rails onto this barge

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so we know for sure that the car enters the water the way it's supposed to.

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Remember, Adam's inside this thing and so if it goes off the barge cockeyed or anything goes wrong,

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it might not be pretty.

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Equally ugly is the prospect of sinking into the water.

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It's the prospect of sinking all the way to the bottom.

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They've welded and strapped tight two clusters of three empty barrels to hop the descent at 15 feet under.

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Just over the depth with a star report says most cars turn turtle.

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Will it work? Let's ask a buoyancy buffon.

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Well, our car weighs about 2600 pounds and half of it is tied to the barge I'm standing on

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so I only need to support 1300 pounds of the car with these barrels.

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Each one of them displaces 440 pounds of water because it pints a pound the world around.

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All told, that gives me 2500 pounds of buoyancy for 1300 pounds of car.

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That's well within my safety margin. That's enough flotation.

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Just like last time, they've removed the engine so oils and sundry fluids don't sully the water.

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Making up for the lost mass are 12 barbell weights.

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Assuming they ever get there.

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Hey Jamie, I need your help. It's too heavy.

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I have it on good authority that it's not that bad. Go for it.

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But the weight in the barrel is much the same as a whole car engine so Adam wisely resorts to hand delivery.

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Last two. Thank you Adam.

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That's the last of the heavy lifting and it's time for the SS Poseidon to push off.

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Bet if you could see into Jamie's brain right now, he's reminiscing about being a barge driver on the Erie Canal.

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Back when at First Ope.

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The barge drifts into place at a spot where the water is 50 feet deep.

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Adam's next job is to secure those flotation barrels to the car.

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Now it's time to attach the lifeline, my safety system.

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The four ropes that will suspend this car upside down exactly 15 feet below the surface of the water.

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We've isolated that the worst case scenario for this experiment is that the car somehow detaches from all four of its mooring points,

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sinks to the bottom upside down so deep in the silty mud that neither my safety diver nor I can open the doors.

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If that happens, we will have to sit down there long enough for safety divers with salvage bags to lift the car enough to open the door and free us.

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Between you and me, even though we've accommodated for that, I hope it doesn't happen.

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Coming up, the rescue crew readies as Adam prepares to take the plunge.

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It is now, or never.

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Now just to recap, we filled the kitchen with methane gas, fired a gun into milk, it did not ignite the gas.

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We removed the milk, fired again, it still did not ignite the gas.

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So we need to move on to small scale and find out if it's even possible to ignite methane gas using the muzzle flash from a gun.

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Before the milk part of this myth can be restaged, they need to show that a flash from the handgun used in the movie could blow up a room in the first place.

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Okay, that's a hole.

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It failed on the bomb range, but this test in a bulletproof box filmed in super slow motion should at least shed some light on the subject.

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Alright, here's what's going on with the muzzle flash and why it might actually ignite a room full of gas.

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Now when a gun is fired, only about 30% of the chemical energy from the propellant is converted to the kinetic energy that is the projectile moving down the barrel.

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The rest is contained in the propellant gas particle mixture that escapes from the muzzle of the gun.

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A significant portion of that is dissipated into that bright muzzle flash that you see.

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Alright, so for this size kitchen, I'm only going to fill it up for two seconds.

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Filling up kitchen with methane.

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Alright, that should be good.

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Carrie counts down.

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Shooting the gun in three, two, one.

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To another big fat failure.

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It takes a keen eye to even spot the muzzle flash.

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Alright, so the gun fires and if you look here, there is one frame of muzzle flash.

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Yeah, that's only a quarter of a millisecond.

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And that's not nearly enough ignition energy to spark a kitchen inferno.

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Maybe it's time to upgrade the sidearm.

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I want to know if a gun can ignite the gas.

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Do you think another gun could do this?

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Maybe a hotter load.

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Yeah, hotter load, bigger muzzle flash.

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Sure, that might work.

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Let's try it.

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A hot load means more powder in the cartridge, but there's also a very good reason to switch guns.

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We're having no luck igniting our gas with the gun the hero carried around in the movie.

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But there's a little Hollywood mistake here.

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Though the hero was carrying a sick sour throughout the entire movie, the villain said he was holding a Glock.

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So that's what we're testing next.

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And just for good measure, we're using a hotter load.

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The hot load is called a plus P.

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So let's see if a new round and the right gun can get the job done.

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Okay, loaded.

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Alright, we're hot.

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Alright.

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Okay, it's ready.

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Here we go.

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In three, two, one.

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Again, no explosion.

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So Carrie burns off the gas with an electric match.

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Now it's back to the high speed to check what was way too quick for the naked eye.

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Wow, look at how much bigger the muzzle flash is.

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Yeah, but we still didn't get ignition.

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So it's not looking so good for the movie myth.

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But I really do want to see a gun light the gas.

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I think we're going to need a bigger gun.

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And possibly an even hotter load.

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And this being Mythbusters, we do have some options.

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We're going big.

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Really big.

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44 Magnum big.

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As we found in Adam and Jamie's Myth Handgun Horror,

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the flash comes not only out of the muzzle,

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but here where the cylinder is.

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When you need significant muzzle flash,

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this is what you call on.

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It stands to reason that this round in this gun

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should spark the biggest flash so far.

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And right now, it's all about igniting the gas.

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All right, guns loaded and cocked.

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Of course, if this fails, well,

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it might be time to have a stern word with the screenwriter.

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Okay, ready?

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Shooting in three, two, one.

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Dang.

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No ignition.

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Man, that was a big muzzle flash.

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All right, let's go check out the high speed.

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Good thinking.

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There's nothing like watching your feathers

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in super slow motion.

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Even with the larger load, which has more powder,

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we're still not able to ignite the methane.

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So I think we moved past the moving myth at this point.

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I think we need the essence of this myth,

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which is that a gun can light a room full of gas

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and that milk can stop it.

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So where do we go?

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The myth is busted.

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Not even the 44 Magnum could spark the methane,

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but the team still has high hopes of a gunshot

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exploding a room full of gas.

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If they manage to do that, they're right back on track

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to see if a carton of ordinary milk can prevent a catastrophe.

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Back on the barge, Adam's immersed in a tangle of sheep shanks and bow lines.

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If it looks like a lonely pursuit, you're right.

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But he's not doing this just to calm his nerves.

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Well, not exactly.

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Why am I doing all this by myself?

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Well, to me, it's axiomatic.

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If your life depends upon the rigging, do your rigging.

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While I'm sitting there waiting for this car to drop over the edge,

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I'm going to be going through the rigging in my mind about a hundred times.

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And I'm going to want to be able to picture the whole thing in my brain.

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So I might as well do it myself.

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I'm going to be able to picture the whole thing in my mind about a hundred times.

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That not right there is going to pull this car to its final resting place.

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But hopefully not me.

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Worst case scenario here is that both Adam and our safety diver get knocked out cold

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from all of this violence and this impact.

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I don't think that's going to happen, but that would be a bad thing if it does.

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Bad enough of the doom and gloom.

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The whole point of this test is to save lives.

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If and when the unthinkable happens to you.

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We've already done a full episode on a car going into the water.

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Here we go.

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We're over an episode that is one of, I think, our proudest moments.

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Given that four separate fans have written to us and said that watching that episode

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gave them critical information that allowed them to escape when their car went underwater.

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Well, it's because of Turning Turtle.

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It's because fans wrote to us and said that most cars going in the water turn completely over.

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And even though we've sunk a car in the water a dozen times, we wanted to know what happens

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when that car goes completely upside down.

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Do you become so disoriented that it becomes much harder to escape?

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And how then do you escape?

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That's what we're going to answer with this setup.

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If the myth is correct, at Escape is Impossible, emergency air supplies are fitted for and asked.

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That's good.

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Alright, I'm going to turn this off for right now.

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Yeah.

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And I'm going to turn it on.

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I will.

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Okay.

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I think we're pretty much ready to go.

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I don't think that's going anywhere.

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I don't think so.

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Except into the water with you.

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Sliding into the backseat is Diver Dawn.

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If things really go badly, he's there to save Adam's life.

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This is meant to be much harder than when he was right side up.

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And once again, he'll wrench on the doors, maybe kick at the windows and try to stay calm.

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So what are the various outcomes likely to mean in this test?

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Well, if I get to the surface by either breaking the window or resorting to breathable air,

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then I would say the fans are totally right.

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However, if I'm able to maintain my cool and actually get to the surface without breaking the window,

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without resorting to air just by holding my breath and staying calm,

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then I would say that the fans are wrong.

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And in either case, we have illuminated a whole new feature of cars going into water.

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Straight ahead, the perils of cooking with hydrogen.

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Holy moly.

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But can milk still save the day?

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3, 2, 1, go!

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In the myth of the gas room boom, pure methane has proved, well, let's say, uncooperative.

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Okay, methane's not exploding, but that's a good thing because it's in people's houses.

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I don't think this myth is actually going to get anywhere unless we move on to a more explosive gas.

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What about hydrogen? It's got a lower ignition energy than methane, 1.15,

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and its flammability range in air is 5 to 75%.

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Roomful gas, all that.

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Remember, the myth that they're trying to test is if milk can suppress a muzzle flash

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and prevent an explosion of volatile gas.

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But with methane, the gas used in the movie, they got nowhere fast.

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So now, they've changed up to hydrogen.

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Now, in these next tests, we're going to use the same guns, the 9mm Glock and the 9mm Sig Sauer,

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plus the 44 Magnum.

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The only thing that's going to change this time is the gas.

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We're using hydrogen. It's more flammable, so hopefully one of these will get that gas to ignite.

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Starting off with a Sig Sauer, they're trying to find the perfect gun and round combination.

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Alright, we're locked lowly to ignite the gas without milk,

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and then add the milk to see if it stops the explosion.

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Alright, filling the tank.

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Okay, you fire, and then I'm going to flame if it doesn't ignite.

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Here we go. In three, two, one.

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Oh my gosh, it just ignited the gas.

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I can't tell. I think we need to check the high speed.

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Always a good plan, as Tori's wishful thinking comes to nothing.

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The gun went off, the gas didn't.

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Even with the more flammable gas, it still was not enough to be ignited by the muzzle flash.

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Hey, we're just starting. We got another gun.

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Alright.

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So next up is the gun they said they used in the movie, but actually didn't, the Glock 17.

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Alright, so we are about to fire a high velocity round out of a Glock into the hydrogen.

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Now, we saw when we fired it into the methane that the higher velocity round had a bigger muzzle flash,

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but I still don't think it's going to be enough to ignite that hydrogen gas.

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If Tori's right, this myth might soon die with a whimper, not a bang.

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Grant agrees, and he's worked up a theory.

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What I think is happening is there's a pressure wave that's pushing all the gas out of the way,

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and the part that might ignite it is never meeting the gas.

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So, you know what? I think this is never going to happen.

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But you know what they say about famous last words.

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What?

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I think that ignited the gas.

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Holy moly!

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Didn't see that one coming.

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Oh my gosh, this myth is looking very plausible.

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I guess I was wrong.

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There's no doubt that was a blast and a half.

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The tank is in pieces, and so is the high speed camera.

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There is a lot of energy right there.

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But did you see that? It's incredible.

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The gas was ignited from the muzzle flash.

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All I know is when Kerry pulled the trigger,

454
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,000
the blast was so large that I was stunned.

455
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,000
I didn't know what to say. I was just sitting there blinking.

456
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,000
So they finally nailed the right bullet, the gun and the gas.

457
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,000
But it still bodes no good for that key scene from Kiss the Girls.

458
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,000
Well, it's busted as far as the movie goes, because nobody's cooking with hydrogen.

459
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:48,000
But the question is, if the essence of this myth is gun igniting gas, can milk stop that?

460
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,000
Maybe we should clean up, reset and try some milk.

461
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,000
We definitely have to take this full scale.

462
00:32:54,000 --> 00:33:01,000
But filling a full-sized room would take 75 times more hydrogen than they used in the small tank.

463
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,000
And that's way too dangerous, even for us.

464
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,000
So the boys have gone mid-scale.

465
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:12,000
Not too big, not too small, and not too shabby.

466
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,000
Check it out, Kerry. We made you a dollhouse.

467
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,000
Oh my gosh.

468
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,000
We're going to fill up with hydrogen and blow up.

469
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,000
Oh my gosh, I want to keep this. It's adorable.

470
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,000
She can, but it won't be in mint condition.

471
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,000
This is way more volatile than the methane.

472
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,000
The H in H-bomb stands for hydrogen.

473
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:37,000
Now, if the milk actually does stop the muzzle flash from igniting the little kitchen,

474
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,000
we have a backup Glock, because we know it can actually do it with muzzle flash.

475
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000
That's a lot more exciting than a candle.

476
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:48,000
In effect, the second Glock now takes the place of the road flare.

477
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:54,000
They raise both guns towards the roof, just in case the ultralight hydrogen settles at the top.

478
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,000
While Kerry rolls out the remote trigger cords,

479
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,000
Tori and Grant install the see-through roof and the front wall.

480
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,000
And after ensuring a nice, tight seal...

481
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,000
Filling the kitchen now. Here we go.

482
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:17,000
Tori counts up to 60, which should fill the room with 6 cubic feet of gas.

483
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,000
Enough to blow it to pieces.

484
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,000
That's assuming the milk muffler doesn't work.

485
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000
This one's for all the marbles.

486
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000
All right, kitchen's filled hydrogen for a minute.

487
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,000
We're ready to go.

488
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,000
In three, two, one.

489
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,000
There's no need to shoot twice.

490
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:43,000
Even with milk at the end of the barrel, the flash from the gun made the room go boom.

491
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,000
Busted! Busted!

492
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:51,000
So it looks like the milk is not enough to stop the muzzle flash from igniting the hydrogen.

493
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,000
They've not only busted the myth from the movie,

494
00:34:54,000 --> 00:35:00,000
but also smashed the idea of milk stopping a blast in a room that's been properly prized.

495
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,000
Busted!

496
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,000
We blew this kitchen apart.

497
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,000
The shrapnel 25 feet back.

498
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,000
Yeah, there is milk everywhere.

499
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,000
Clearly milk is not going to be the thing that stops explosion.

500
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,000
Well, it sure doesn't work with hydrogen.

501
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,000
As for the methane, it never exploded at all.

502
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,000
So Morgan had no cause to fret in the first place.

503
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,000
Sure he had the right idea if they were cooking with hydrogen gas.

504
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,000
I mean, we had to go to a gas with such a low ignition energy that it's ridiculous.

505
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,000
We're busted on so many levels.

506
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,000
In the meantime, remember, it's very uncool to mess with methane.

507
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,000
Or to waste milk.

508
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Still to come.

509
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Well, it's all about the amazing Adam Savage underwater and upside down.

510
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000
I can't open the pass and you're doing it.

511
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:08,000
Adam and Jamie are finally ready to turn one of their classic experiments upside down.

512
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:17,000
My goal here is to go underwater, turn turtle and get back to the surface without either breaking the window or resorting to breathable air.

513
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:23,000
But can he stay calm enough, long enough to make his escape when the cars belly up?

514
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000
Mike, go ahead and start your engine.

515
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,000
We're about to find out.

516
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:36,000
In three, two, one, go.

517
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:54,000
The plan works to perfection as the car pitches nose first and then settles roofside down.

518
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,000
Adam's initial fears are unfounded.

519
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,000
Both he and Don are so far uninjured.

520
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,000
The car is filling up.

521
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,000
It's definitely totally upside down.

522
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,000
All our safety procedures are working great.

523
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,000
It's slowly filling up.

524
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000
I'm definitely not going to try for the driver's side door.

525
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,000
I'm going to try for the passenger door.

526
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,000
I can't open the passenger door.

527
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Of course I can't because we're still sinking.

528
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,000
The pressure differential.

529
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,000
That was totally intense.

530
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,000
The windshield shattered from the impact.

531
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,000
We're still about 30 seconds from having turned over.

532
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,000
My safety driver's gone.

533
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,000
You're okay?

534
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,000
Excellent.

535
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:43,000
Inside the car, the pressure in every sense is rapidly rising.

536
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,000
But back on the surface, Jamie's almost buoyant.

537
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,000
I can hear Adam making all sorts of noise inside there.

538
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:55,000
I don't know what he's saying, but it appears to still be awake and intact.

539
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:56,000
It's true.

540
00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:01,000
Right now, Adam's unhurt, unfazed, and surprisingly chatty.

541
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Wait for the car to come out so that I can open this door and escape.

542
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Right now, I can actually see out the back window.

543
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,000
I can see daylight, which is really pretty tantalizing, honestly.

544
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,000
It's crucial that Adam stays calm,

545
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:19,000
especially as a massive curve ball is coming his way.

546
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,000
The upside down car suddenly twists right side up.

547
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000
The car's turned over again.

548
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,000
My turn over again once we get down.

549
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,000
Because of the lines we've got on it.

550
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,000
I'm going to try and open with my...

551
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,000
Oh my mind!

552
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,000
No.

553
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,000
Okay.

554
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,000
It's good calm.

555
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:47,000
Wow, the windshield is totally spraying water out at me.

556
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,000
Woo!

557
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,000
Dude, I did not expect this.

558
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,000
With each passing second, the car fills with water,

559
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,000
but Adam does at least manage to stay with the last pocket of air.

560
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,000
Let me see if I can open this door.

561
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,000
Ah, no.

562
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,000
I have no access to any doors in this.

563
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,000
I have to wait until this car settles down.

564
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,000
It is taking a long time to sink.

565
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
To Adam, it's taking forever,

566
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,000
but in fact, it's only 60 seconds since the car hit the water,

567
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,000
but things are about to accelerate.

568
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,000
Okay, there's a lot to get caught up in in this car,

569
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,000
and my visibility is about to disappear.

570
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,000
Here we go.

571
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,000
I can hear the last bit of air hissing out the back of the car,

572
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,000
so these guys are pretty close to being totally in the water,

573
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,000
and the car is going to be going down.

574
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,000
And sure enough, just seconds later...

575
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,000
That it's going down.

576
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000
Here we go.

577
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,000
Oh, boy.

578
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:56,000
Oh, boy is right, as the car suddenly drops like a stone.

579
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:01,000
It flips yet again, so it's back upside down.

580
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,000
Remember that Adam's not wearing a dive mask,

581
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:09,000
so his vision is even more blurred than this.

582
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:14,000
What's more, there's no air pockets left.

583
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:19,000
After a worrying period of silence, Adam finally breaks free.

584
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,000
He figures out which way is up and swims to safety.

585
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,000
But did he really survive,

586
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:32,000
or did he resort to a blast of emergency air?

587
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,000
You all right?

588
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,000
I'm okay.

589
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,000
It's pretty definitive that I died right there.

590
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,000
That means you had to partake of the onboard air supply.

591
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,000
I absolutely had to partake of the onboard air supply.

592
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,000
And I breathed in a little water on the way.

593
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,000
With the car turning and being really unpredictable at its turning,

594
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,000
which I think was actually quite accurate to a real-world scenario...

595
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000
The car's turned over again.

596
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,000
My air pocket was changing constantly,

597
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:08,000
and when it finally started to lurch and go under at the end,

598
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000
it went really, really, really fast.

599
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,000
I had about 10, 15 seconds of warning,

600
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,000
trying to take a really deep breath,

601
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,000
and then I tried opening the door,

602
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,000
and at that point I was completely out of air.

603
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,000
It was just too stressful.

604
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,000
You're in this super confined space, you cannot see anything,

605
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,000
you lose all your bearings.

606
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,000
I couldn't find the handles on the doors without a mask.

607
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:32,000
His only choice was to take the air offered by diver Don,

608
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000
and Don had his own problems.

609
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,000
My safety diver was actually pinned in his seatbelt

610
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,000
and had to use a knife to actually cut himself free.

611
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,000
The whole time I was under water breathing air,

612
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,000
I couldn't tell you what part of the car I was in

613
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,000
or what direction was up or down.

614
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,000
The disorientation was complete.

615
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,000
They both lived to tell the tale,

616
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,000
but Adam only got out with the help of canned air,

617
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,000
so the myth that it's next to impossible to escape

618
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,000
when the car turns turtle is confirmed.

619
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,000
The essence of Adam's approach to survival

620
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,000
was exactly the same as the first time around.

621
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,000
Stay as calm as you can for as long as you can.

622
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,000
Staying put till the car fills with water

623
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,000
is still the best tactic,

624
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,000
but the fans were dead right.

625
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,000
Getting out is a whole lot harder when you're upside down.

626
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,000
The difference between this test

627
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,000
and the first time I did this with an upright car

628
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,000
is literally night and day.

629
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,000
So the take home message is?

630
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,000
I don't know about you,

631
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,000
but I am keeping a commercial window breaker

632
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,000
in my glove compartment from now on.

633
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,000
Unless you live in the desert.

634
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,000
Exactly.

635
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,000
And remember that technically,

636
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,000
Adam would have drowned in that car.

637
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,000
So if he's recommending a window breaker,

638
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,000
all I can say is the man knows his business.