1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,720 On this episode of Mythbusters... 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:05,340 I'm king of the world! 3 00:00:05,340 --> 00:00:07,240 We're diving into the depths. 4 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,100 Oh, my God. 5 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:12,040 We might as well have been holding handfuls of chums. 6 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:14,140 Shaping up and shipping out. 7 00:00:14,140 --> 00:00:15,140 Oh! 8 00:00:15,140 --> 00:00:16,140 Oh! 9 00:00:16,140 --> 00:00:17,140 Oh! 10 00:00:17,140 --> 00:00:22,060 To get the inside scoop on the myths that are gun-ho for H2O. 11 00:00:22,060 --> 00:00:24,580 That made our Dive Master kind of nervous for some reason. 12 00:00:24,580 --> 00:00:25,580 I don't know why. 13 00:00:25,580 --> 00:00:32,100 As we count down the top 12 wettest and wildest moments in Mythbusters history. 14 00:00:32,100 --> 00:00:37,380 It is true that I wet myself during the course of testing that story. 15 00:00:37,380 --> 00:00:38,380 It was disgusting. 16 00:00:38,380 --> 00:00:44,100 Who are the Mythbusters? 17 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:46,780 Adam Savage. 18 00:00:46,780 --> 00:00:47,780 And Jamie Heineman. 19 00:00:47,780 --> 00:00:49,540 Almost too excited. 20 00:00:49,540 --> 00:00:54,740 Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience. 21 00:00:54,740 --> 00:00:55,740 Together with Brad Imahara. 22 00:00:55,740 --> 00:00:56,740 Save yourselves. 23 00:00:56,740 --> 00:00:57,740 Carrie Byron. 24 00:00:57,740 --> 00:00:58,740 Like, what's in out of here? 25 00:00:58,740 --> 00:00:59,740 See? 26 00:00:59,740 --> 00:01:00,740 Whoops. 27 00:01:00,740 --> 00:01:01,740 And Tori Belachie. 28 00:01:01,740 --> 00:01:02,740 Let me order some exploding pants. 29 00:01:02,740 --> 00:01:03,740 They don't just tell the myths. 30 00:01:03,740 --> 00:01:04,740 They put them to the test. 31 00:01:04,740 --> 00:01:20,740 For this Mythbusters dirty dozen special, just add water. 32 00:01:24,740 --> 00:01:29,060 What are we waiting for? 33 00:01:29,060 --> 00:01:30,980 Just one moment. 34 00:01:30,980 --> 00:01:31,980 Only one? 35 00:01:31,980 --> 00:01:33,340 Okay, they're late, so I guess I'll tell you. 36 00:01:33,340 --> 00:01:39,780 We are counting down the top 12 best Mythbusters moments that involve water. 37 00:01:39,780 --> 00:01:40,780 Water. 38 00:01:40,780 --> 00:01:41,780 Water. 39 00:01:41,780 --> 00:01:46,260 So, anything that we've done that involves us being around, in, or under the water. 40 00:01:46,260 --> 00:01:47,260 Exactly. 41 00:01:47,260 --> 00:01:50,740 It gives us a chance to celebrate and scrutinize our best Mythbusters watery escapades. 42 00:01:50,740 --> 00:01:53,420 And a chance to see Jamie's when served again. 43 00:01:53,420 --> 00:01:54,420 Precisely. 44 00:01:54,420 --> 00:01:55,420 And the best with the pool. 45 00:01:55,420 --> 00:01:58,460 I kinda told Grant and Tori we were having a pool party. 46 00:01:58,460 --> 00:02:00,820 This is the pool party. 47 00:02:00,820 --> 00:02:01,820 Lane. 48 00:02:01,820 --> 00:02:04,980 Let's start the show. 49 00:02:04,980 --> 00:02:10,060 And first up in the Wet and Wild Ride. 50 00:02:10,060 --> 00:02:12,340 We've sunk boats. 51 00:02:12,340 --> 00:02:16,140 We've raised boats. 52 00:02:16,140 --> 00:02:17,980 We've nearly drowned in cars. 53 00:02:17,980 --> 00:02:22,460 But we should really kick this off with water slide wipeout. 54 00:02:22,460 --> 00:02:27,420 The Myth is an online video that a fan sent us that shows some guys having built a massive 55 00:02:27,420 --> 00:02:29,540 water slide on the side of this hill. 56 00:02:29,540 --> 00:02:34,900 And this guy slides down, hits the edge of the ramp, flies through the air for this impossibly 57 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:40,260 long length of time, and then lands safely in this tiny little swimming pool like a hundred 58 00:02:40,260 --> 00:02:41,460 feet away. 59 00:02:41,460 --> 00:02:43,460 That was our task, to test that. 60 00:02:43,460 --> 00:02:50,140 With the guys not willing to risk their lives on sticking the landing, splat. 61 00:02:50,140 --> 00:02:53,540 They decided to test this slide over water. 62 00:02:53,540 --> 00:02:55,420 But first, they had to build it. 63 00:02:55,420 --> 00:02:59,540 And this great Black Monster Truck Fantasy Camp. 64 00:02:59,540 --> 00:03:01,820 The building of this ramp was positively Egyptian. 65 00:03:01,820 --> 00:03:06,500 I mean, I'm down at the bottom, putting together this wood, frame, and truss work that will 66 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:09,780 hold the plywood together for the actual ramp part. 67 00:03:09,780 --> 00:03:14,620 While Jamie's up top feeding this massive hundreds of foot long piece of plywood that 68 00:03:14,620 --> 00:03:18,620 he's screwing together up top and slowly rolling down towards me. 69 00:03:18,620 --> 00:03:21,180 It looks great. 70 00:03:21,180 --> 00:03:25,980 You really don't get the sense from a camera how steep something is like you do when you're 71 00:03:25,980 --> 00:03:26,980 really there. 72 00:03:26,980 --> 00:03:29,940 And let me tell you, that was one steep slide. 73 00:03:29,940 --> 00:03:33,940 It was so steep that you really had to struggle to walk up or down it. 74 00:03:33,940 --> 00:03:39,580 Finally, with the mega-wush complete, it was time for its first human test. 75 00:03:39,580 --> 00:03:42,540 I started from halfway up the ramp, figuring that would be safe. 76 00:03:42,540 --> 00:03:46,580 And it actually was almost the most dangerous thing we did in the whole thing. 77 00:03:46,580 --> 00:03:50,300 It wasn't going very fast, and so he kind of dropped like a stone right off the end 78 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:51,300 of it. 79 00:03:51,300 --> 00:03:58,900 It gave me a bit of a sinking feeling because I knew there wasn't much depth of water there, 80 00:03:58,900 --> 00:04:06,940 which meant he could have gotten hurt. 81 00:04:06,940 --> 00:04:09,860 But if at first you don't succeed, try again. 82 00:04:09,860 --> 00:04:10,860 Higher. 83 00:04:10,860 --> 00:04:14,220 We found out once we started testing that the lubrication we put on the slide was extremely 84 00:04:14,220 --> 00:04:18,420 important because if you didn't do it exactly right, you weren't going to get enough speed 85 00:04:18,420 --> 00:04:21,380 and you wouldn't go far enough off the end of the ramp. 86 00:04:21,380 --> 00:04:25,540 Adam figured the best way to do this was to just dump a massive bucket full of it onto 87 00:04:25,540 --> 00:04:26,540 the slide. 88 00:04:26,540 --> 00:04:30,100 But after a face full of foam, I couldn't see a thing. 89 00:04:30,100 --> 00:04:31,700 I hit the ramp blind. 90 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:35,180 I figured we'd be better off by putting it on the sprayer. 91 00:04:35,180 --> 00:04:40,740 Adam agreed that Jamie had the lubrication system. 92 00:04:40,740 --> 00:04:46,100 And on day two, it was accuracy, not lubrication, giving Adam a headache. 93 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:51,540 I landed wrong, and when you land wrong flying 70 feet through the air into water, you get 94 00:04:51,540 --> 00:04:53,740 an instant headache. 95 00:04:53,740 --> 00:05:00,660 By the time of the third jump when we actually had our target out, I was really cranky. 96 00:05:00,660 --> 00:05:05,140 So our safety guy, stunt coordinator Nick Plesche, comes up to the top of the ramp and 97 00:05:05,140 --> 00:05:07,940 he says to me, are you a stuntman, man? 98 00:05:07,940 --> 00:05:09,060 It's not here. 99 00:05:09,060 --> 00:05:10,060 It's here. 100 00:05:10,060 --> 00:05:11,540 I'll do all the work before you leave the ramp. 101 00:05:11,540 --> 00:05:15,660 The only thing I want you thinking, man, when you hit that water is, does my director, 102 00:05:15,660 --> 00:05:18,300 Alice, want another take? 103 00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:19,300 You know how to do this. 104 00:05:19,300 --> 00:05:20,300 I'll see you at the bottom. 105 00:05:20,300 --> 00:05:22,940 And then he turned around and went down to the bottom of the ramp. 106 00:05:22,940 --> 00:05:26,500 And three, two, I was like, oh my God, I'm in a movie. 107 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:29,340 I'm in a movie about a guy about to do a key jump. 108 00:05:29,340 --> 00:05:30,340 One. 109 00:05:30,340 --> 00:05:33,100 The thing was his talk worked perfectly. 110 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:39,980 My third jump, I landed perfectly 50 degree angle feet in the center of our target, didn't 111 00:05:39,980 --> 00:05:42,980 even disturb the actual target. 112 00:05:42,980 --> 00:05:48,420 It's the bullseye that rocketed this incredible wet and wild moment into our countdown. 113 00:05:48,420 --> 00:05:51,620 It couldn't have gone better. 114 00:05:51,620 --> 00:05:58,180 And next, it's an explosive boom and bust. 115 00:05:58,180 --> 00:06:03,340 No MIF Busters countdown would ever be complete without a blast. 116 00:06:03,340 --> 00:06:07,940 And explosives and water make one heck of a team. 117 00:06:07,940 --> 00:06:12,020 I don't get that excited about using explosives to just destroy things. 118 00:06:12,020 --> 00:06:13,020 Wow. 119 00:06:13,020 --> 00:06:17,060 I do find it really interesting when you can use them to do specific work. 120 00:06:17,060 --> 00:06:22,740 And so that would mean my favorite water explosion would have to involve safe cracking. 121 00:06:22,740 --> 00:06:27,980 The story here was that you could open a safe without destroying the contents by filling 122 00:06:27,980 --> 00:06:31,860 it with water first. 123 00:06:31,860 --> 00:06:32,860 We got it safe. 124 00:06:32,860 --> 00:06:33,860 We filled it with water. 125 00:06:33,860 --> 00:06:36,540 We put explosives in it and we blew it up. 126 00:06:36,540 --> 00:06:39,540 Three, two, one. 127 00:06:39,540 --> 00:06:43,540 Look at the door. 128 00:06:43,540 --> 00:06:44,540 Wow. 129 00:06:44,540 --> 00:06:45,540 That worked beautifully. 130 00:06:45,540 --> 00:06:53,380 I'd like to point out that former FBI Special Agent Frank Doyle offered us all a steak dinner 131 00:06:53,380 --> 00:06:54,380 if it worked. 132 00:06:54,380 --> 00:06:57,540 So convinced was he that it would not. 133 00:06:57,540 --> 00:07:01,540 And we've never yet gotten our steak dinner, Frank. 134 00:07:02,540 --> 00:07:07,980 But for the ultimate combination of water and explosives, it's over to Grant. 135 00:07:07,980 --> 00:07:11,700 So the Black Hatter Shark myth comes from the movie Deep Blue Sea. 136 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:17,780 And in that, the hero has to kill this highly intelligent, very deadly, very large shark. 137 00:07:17,780 --> 00:07:23,140 And what he does is empties a number of flares into a canister. 138 00:07:23,140 --> 00:07:26,860 There should be enough Black Hatter in this flare to give us two and a half sticks at 139 00:07:26,860 --> 00:07:27,980 the end of the night. 140 00:07:27,980 --> 00:07:30,100 He fires it at the shark. 141 00:07:30,100 --> 00:07:35,020 It's connected by a steel cable back to him, which he then touches to the ends of a battery 142 00:07:35,020 --> 00:07:36,020 and boom. 143 00:07:36,020 --> 00:07:38,020 Yeah. 144 00:07:38,020 --> 00:07:39,020 The shark blows up. 145 00:07:39,020 --> 00:07:40,020 Yep. 146 00:07:40,020 --> 00:07:43,220 And first things first, they needed a big fish to fry. 147 00:07:43,220 --> 00:07:47,700 So Tori created Hugo, the giant foam shark. 148 00:07:47,700 --> 00:07:53,140 So often on the show, our schedule doesn't allow us to take time to make it exactly how 149 00:07:53,140 --> 00:07:54,140 you want it. 150 00:07:54,140 --> 00:07:59,220 But this one magical time on Mythbusters, I was allowed to sculpt this shark. 151 00:08:00,220 --> 00:08:04,900 And it turned out better than I thought it would. 152 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:09,700 He put so much time and love into building that big shark. 153 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:12,180 That was a great idea, how you getting back on the boat. 154 00:08:12,180 --> 00:08:13,900 I haven't thought about that yet. 155 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:14,900 He even named it. 156 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:18,900 He might even kind of cross the line a little bit. 157 00:08:18,900 --> 00:08:21,860 At a shark. 158 00:08:22,860 --> 00:08:30,660 Finally, at the lake with Hugo ready to become shark foam soup, the guys flared up their 159 00:08:30,660 --> 00:08:31,660 flares. 160 00:08:31,660 --> 00:08:35,940 So what we actually found when we tested this is when you set off that amount of black powder 161 00:08:35,940 --> 00:08:36,940 under water. 162 00:08:36,940 --> 00:08:40,780 Ready to fire in three, two, one. 163 00:08:40,780 --> 00:08:41,780 Pretty much nothing happens. 164 00:08:41,780 --> 00:08:45,580 It did no damage at all. 165 00:08:45,580 --> 00:08:47,780 So we did what we usually do. 166 00:08:47,780 --> 00:08:53,740 We called in our friend Frank Doyle and he brought 400 pounds of explosives to actually 167 00:08:53,740 --> 00:08:55,780 execute the final experiment. 168 00:08:55,780 --> 00:08:57,420 It's going to be magnificent. 169 00:08:57,420 --> 00:09:01,100 Magnificent compared to the previous damp squid. 170 00:09:01,100 --> 00:09:03,020 We're waiting for this explosion to go off. 171 00:09:03,020 --> 00:09:09,340 We give it three, two, one. 172 00:09:09,340 --> 00:09:11,420 And then nothing happens. 173 00:09:11,420 --> 00:09:16,260 This is every bomb techs worst nightmare. 174 00:09:16,260 --> 00:09:20,420 All of us, I think, are starting to get a little heart flutter because the bomb squad 175 00:09:20,420 --> 00:09:24,060 had to take a boat all the way in and find out what went wrong. 176 00:09:24,060 --> 00:09:27,100 This is like the worst experiment ever. 177 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:30,980 Imagine trying to problem solve a bomb of that size not going off. 178 00:09:30,980 --> 00:09:33,420 I would not want to be the person in charge. 179 00:09:33,420 --> 00:09:36,940 Frank Doyle definitely earned his stripes that day. 180 00:09:36,940 --> 00:09:38,940 He's a badass. 181 00:09:38,940 --> 00:09:39,940 Indeed he is. 182 00:09:39,940 --> 00:09:44,060 And after a gut wrenching 40 minute wait with the charges reset. 183 00:09:44,060 --> 00:09:45,060 Yeah! 184 00:09:45,060 --> 00:09:47,340 Clear the hole! 185 00:09:47,340 --> 00:09:49,340 It was time for take two. 186 00:09:49,340 --> 00:09:52,340 Clear the hole! 187 00:09:52,340 --> 00:09:56,340 Three, two, one! 188 00:09:56,340 --> 00:10:03,180 And there's this huge tower of water. 189 00:10:03,180 --> 00:10:05,260 I just shot into the air. 190 00:10:05,260 --> 00:10:07,100 Pieces of Hugo everywhere. 191 00:10:07,100 --> 00:10:09,100 We got down to the lake. 192 00:10:09,100 --> 00:10:12,620 It's just foam rubber shark pieces floating all over. 193 00:10:12,900 --> 00:10:14,900 Oh, Hugo! 194 00:10:14,900 --> 00:10:22,420 And for Tori, although Hugo was Hugo-ed, at least he'll always have the high speeds. 195 00:10:22,420 --> 00:10:26,340 After the break, swimming, Heinemann style. 196 00:10:26,340 --> 00:10:29,340 Raise arms up, lift out of water, put arms down. 197 00:10:29,340 --> 00:10:33,180 And later on, what will be the wettest and wildest number one? 198 00:10:33,180 --> 00:10:35,180 Drum roll please. 199 00:10:35,180 --> 00:10:40,180 There's water, water everywhere. 200 00:10:40,180 --> 00:10:49,060 Because we're counting down our most memorable myths in the drink. 201 00:10:49,060 --> 00:10:54,620 At number 10, the guy's slipping into something a little more uncomfortable. 202 00:10:54,620 --> 00:11:03,260 Obviously, when we're tackling myths that are wet or wild, or especially both, it means 203 00:11:03,340 --> 00:11:04,340 that you're going to get wet. 204 00:11:04,340 --> 00:11:10,340 And often, when you're going to get wet, unfortunately, it means you're going to get cold too. 205 00:11:10,340 --> 00:11:15,340 Yep, experimenting in water can get very cold very fast. 206 00:11:15,340 --> 00:11:19,340 Puppies, puppies, kittens, kittens, baby hippos, babies! 207 00:11:19,340 --> 00:11:25,340 But the most hypothermic myth ever tested will surprise you. 208 00:11:25,340 --> 00:11:30,340 Honestly, the coldest and wettest I think we've ever been has to be swimming in syrup. 209 00:11:30,420 --> 00:11:35,420 The question here was whether or not you could swim faster in syrup than you could in regular water. 210 00:11:37,420 --> 00:11:40,420 The reason it was so cold is twofold. 211 00:11:40,420 --> 00:11:45,380 One, it was winter in San Francisco, which is not cold by most people's standards, but 212 00:11:45,380 --> 00:11:48,380 when you're swimming in syrup, it's pretty frickin' cold. 213 00:11:48,380 --> 00:11:53,380 The second reason is because the syrup is not something you can simply dry off of yourself. 214 00:11:53,380 --> 00:11:55,380 You have to be rinsed off. 215 00:11:55,420 --> 00:12:00,420 You have to be rinsed off in water that we could never get warmer than slightly lukewarm. 216 00:12:00,420 --> 00:12:07,420 It may have been freezing, but what really warmed the cockles of Adam's heart was Jamie's swimming. 217 00:12:07,420 --> 00:12:15,420 Jamie's technique at swimming is kind of like his technique at building something in which he thinks through every step as he's going, which makes him a little bit plotting as a swimmer. 218 00:12:15,420 --> 00:12:17,420 I believe he's actually doing this. 219 00:12:17,420 --> 00:12:21,420 Raise arms up, lift out of water, put arms down, swim forward. 220 00:12:21,460 --> 00:12:23,460 Raise arms up, lift out of water. 221 00:12:23,460 --> 00:12:25,460 It's like a robot working through a set of instructions. 222 00:12:25,460 --> 00:12:30,460 I was actually surprised how difficult it was for him to swim. 223 00:12:30,460 --> 00:12:35,460 I thought he descended from the Great Walrus Tribe, so I figured he'd be a great swimmer. 224 00:12:38,460 --> 00:12:41,460 The Great Walrus Tribe, I'm gonna get killed for that one. 225 00:12:43,460 --> 00:12:47,460 Next up is a moment all about dunking and diving. 226 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:55,500 Our intrepid mythbusters have gone undercover underwater for many a myth. 227 00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:57,500 It's party time. 228 00:12:57,500 --> 00:13:08,500 But when it comes to strange suits and underwater adventures, the macabre maritime myth of a diver sucked into his diving helmet takes the grizzly prize. 229 00:13:08,540 --> 00:13:16,540 With Kari on maternity leave, it was down to Tori to create the diver. 230 00:13:16,540 --> 00:13:21,540 I present to you my creation, Meat Man. 231 00:13:24,540 --> 00:13:25,540 Oh, almost threw up. 232 00:13:25,540 --> 00:13:27,540 Meat Man was disgusting. 233 00:13:27,540 --> 00:13:32,540 I mean, I had a love for him because I built the guy, but he was rotting pork meat. 234 00:13:32,580 --> 00:13:38,580 At one point, I think the refrigerator truck got shut off, so it spent a night unrefrigerated. 235 00:13:38,580 --> 00:13:43,580 And the next day, the rotting flesh was unbearable. 236 00:13:43,580 --> 00:13:46,580 I mean, mythbusters doesn't take to get Meat Man in a diving suit. 237 00:13:46,580 --> 00:13:53,580 With their old-time diving suit completely porked out, it was time for Meat Man to meet his deep-sea fate. 238 00:13:53,580 --> 00:13:55,580 If you see any sharks, play dead. 239 00:13:55,620 --> 00:14:02,620 At 300 feet below the surface, with their underwater camera poised, Grant cut the cord. 240 00:14:02,620 --> 00:14:05,620 Three, two, one. 241 00:14:05,620 --> 00:14:11,620 One thing we didn't foresee, the suit was filled with the stench of rotting flesh. 242 00:14:11,620 --> 00:14:16,620 And so when Grant vented the suit, all that air came rushing into the boat with us. 243 00:14:16,620 --> 00:14:18,620 I mean, it was nauseating. 244 00:14:18,620 --> 00:14:20,620 Oh, look, it was avid! 245 00:14:20,660 --> 00:14:25,660 And then at one moment, everything just gets to the point where it all goes... 246 00:14:29,660 --> 00:14:30,660 Oh, holy crap! 247 00:14:30,660 --> 00:14:32,660 Meat Man is in the helmet! 248 00:14:32,660 --> 00:14:36,660 And you see all the guts squashed up against the glass. 249 00:14:36,660 --> 00:14:38,660 It was disgusting. 250 00:14:38,660 --> 00:14:40,660 Yeah! It worked! 251 00:14:41,660 --> 00:14:47,660 It worked so well that it's also a demonstration of why you should never lend the mythbusters anything. 252 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:51,700 We borrowed a set of antique diving equipment. 253 00:14:51,700 --> 00:14:53,700 His stomach is inside his helmet! 254 00:14:53,700 --> 00:14:57,700 We promised the guy, we're like, oh, no, it's totally gonna be fine. 255 00:14:57,700 --> 00:14:59,700 It's gonna be great. Don't worry about it. 256 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:05,700 The helmet was not in returnable condition. 257 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:09,700 Later, it's a little scary in here. 258 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:13,700 But first, like this, we were like, oh my god! 259 00:15:17,700 --> 00:15:23,700 Next on the Wet and Wild Splashdown is a myth as cold as ice. 260 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:25,700 No! 261 00:15:25,700 --> 00:15:31,700 So the idea behind the myth of blue ice is that there's a leaky toilet on a commercial airliner. 262 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:35,700 That leaky toilet allows a giant chunk of ice to form on the side of the jet. 263 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:39,700 That chunk of ice breaks off and punches a hole into someone's house. 264 00:15:41,700 --> 00:15:46,700 How do you capture the forming of blue ice on the outside of a moving airplane at altitude? 265 00:15:46,740 --> 00:15:48,740 I mean, it's almost impossible. 266 00:15:48,740 --> 00:15:53,740 Impossible, unless you have an open invitation to Geektopia. 267 00:15:53,740 --> 00:15:57,740 The Icing Research Tunnel is a world-class research facility. 268 00:15:57,740 --> 00:16:01,740 They test spacecraft, fighter jets, commercial aircraft, 269 00:16:01,740 --> 00:16:04,740 and here we come in with our rinky-dink thing. 270 00:16:04,740 --> 00:16:05,740 This is me now in the R2-D2. 271 00:16:05,740 --> 00:16:06,740 Oh, boy. 272 00:16:06,740 --> 00:16:10,740 But you know what? What makes them great is that they're like, absolutely. 273 00:16:10,740 --> 00:16:13,740 We will help you out because we want to get to the bottom of this too. 274 00:16:13,780 --> 00:16:16,780 I can not love a set of guys whose motto is, 275 00:16:16,780 --> 00:16:18,780 We freeze to please. 276 00:16:18,780 --> 00:16:23,780 However, getting to the bottom of this myth was not as quick as you might think. 277 00:16:23,780 --> 00:16:24,780 Fire it up. 278 00:16:24,780 --> 00:16:26,780 Alright, let's go. Fire it up. 279 00:16:26,780 --> 00:16:28,780 Maximum war. 280 00:16:28,780 --> 00:16:29,780 Ugh. 281 00:16:29,780 --> 00:16:35,780 It takes hours to cool down the air, to chill it to operating temperature. 282 00:16:35,780 --> 00:16:38,780 We started our experiment at 8 a.m. 283 00:16:38,780 --> 00:16:41,780 We did not get out of there until 1 a.m. the next day. 284 00:16:41,820 --> 00:16:45,820 So it turns out to be a 17-hour day. 285 00:16:45,820 --> 00:16:49,820 But those hours were well spent because this myth was looking plausible. 286 00:16:49,820 --> 00:16:53,820 Oh, look how quick the ice is building up. 287 00:16:53,820 --> 00:16:58,820 The ice formed so perfectly that all the NASA guys could not believe how well it worked. 288 00:16:58,820 --> 00:17:03,820 And they even told us that we have had tests that had been planned for years. 289 00:17:03,820 --> 00:17:05,820 It's approaching soccer ball size. 290 00:17:05,820 --> 00:17:08,820 And you guys throw this crazy thing together. 291 00:17:08,860 --> 00:17:10,860 Oh, we're getting bigger chucks breaking up. 292 00:17:10,860 --> 00:17:13,860 Come here, do the test, and it works. 293 00:17:13,860 --> 00:17:14,860 Oh! 294 00:17:14,860 --> 00:17:18,860 I mean, they were just saying, sometimes it just shows you simple is better. 295 00:17:20,860 --> 00:17:26,860 Indeed, as jumping out of a plane with a block of simulated blue ice turned out to be. 296 00:17:28,860 --> 00:17:30,860 You need attack. 297 00:17:30,860 --> 00:17:32,860 Just as the myth predicted. 298 00:17:32,860 --> 00:17:36,860 Check it out. It dug itself into the ground. 299 00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:39,900 However, for those of you watching the skies. 300 00:17:39,900 --> 00:17:43,900 I really don't think that the chances are high it's going to happen. 301 00:17:43,900 --> 00:17:47,900 The chain of events is a perfect storm of circumstances. 302 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:49,900 I think it's going to be a pretty rare event. 303 00:17:49,900 --> 00:17:51,900 But still possible. 304 00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:56,900 And from plummeting ice to the dangers of letting off steam. 305 00:17:56,900 --> 00:18:00,900 At the other end of the spectrum from ice is gaseous water, and that is steam. 306 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:05,900 And steam has absolutely given us some of our most choice moments on the show. 307 00:18:05,940 --> 00:18:07,940 From the Archimedes cannon. 308 00:18:07,940 --> 00:18:08,940 Why? 309 00:18:08,940 --> 00:18:10,940 Hey! 310 00:18:10,940 --> 00:18:12,940 To exploding fire extinguishers. 311 00:18:15,940 --> 00:18:19,940 There's been a lot of hot and steamy Mythbusters moments. 312 00:18:20,940 --> 00:18:25,940 You'd think actually that a shoe in for the best moment would be the water heater rocket. 313 00:18:25,940 --> 00:18:31,940 There's a good reason for that, because water heater's feeling is pure unadulterated awesome. 314 00:18:35,940 --> 00:18:41,940 Unadulterated awesome, because you never know when they'll blow. 315 00:18:41,940 --> 00:18:44,940 Right when you kind of relax and think everything's going to be okay. 316 00:18:44,940 --> 00:18:47,940 That's when the vessel decides to rupture. 317 00:18:49,940 --> 00:18:56,940 But surprisingly, explosions pale in comparison to the extreme steam power of this. 318 00:18:56,940 --> 00:19:00,940 The steam power of Mythic it's a nod for me as my favorite has to be steam machine guns. 319 00:19:00,980 --> 00:19:07,980 This is a mythical machine supposedly developed during the American Civil War that was a steam powered rotary machine gun 320 00:19:07,980 --> 00:19:12,980 that centrifugally delivered ball bearings at a deadly rate of speed. 321 00:19:13,980 --> 00:19:14,980 We built one. 322 00:19:14,980 --> 00:19:16,980 Yes they did. 323 00:19:16,980 --> 00:19:21,980 And stoking their big bad steam machine those unpredictable water heaters. 324 00:19:21,980 --> 00:19:27,980 It was during the build of the steam machine gun that Jamie and I got a truly visceral understanding of the power of steam. 325 00:19:28,020 --> 00:19:33,020 Oh wow, I can see where it hit. 326 00:19:33,020 --> 00:19:36,020 Very pleased and terrified. 327 00:19:36,020 --> 00:19:44,020 The steam machine gun was one of those devices that was so over the top and kind of out of control. 328 00:19:44,020 --> 00:19:49,020 You might think that it was too dangerous to actually take on. 329 00:19:49,020 --> 00:19:53,020 This one's for distance and for glory. 330 00:19:53,060 --> 00:19:56,060 Three, two, one. 331 00:20:03,060 --> 00:20:05,060 But you know, we've done the math. 332 00:20:05,060 --> 00:20:09,060 We've made sure that we had the over pressure relief valves on it. 333 00:20:09,060 --> 00:20:13,060 We had very sturdy mechanical rigs and guards on it. 334 00:20:13,060 --> 00:20:18,060 But still, you know, you get stuff like that going really, really fast. 335 00:20:18,060 --> 00:20:20,060 It's kind of messed up. 336 00:20:20,100 --> 00:20:24,100 Messed up, but ultimately busted. 337 00:20:24,100 --> 00:20:25,100 Soldier. 338 00:20:25,100 --> 00:20:26,100 Sir, yes sir. 339 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:29,100 What do you think of the steam machine gun as a weapon war? 340 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:32,100 Sir, it's not very effective, sir. 341 00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:35,100 Okay, let's get out of here. 342 00:20:35,100 --> 00:20:36,100 Coming right up. 343 00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:37,100 This kills you. 344 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:40,100 This kills you and everyone else in the room. 345 00:20:45,100 --> 00:20:49,100 We're halfway through our splash-tacular countdown. 346 00:20:49,140 --> 00:20:52,140 But there's plenty more myths in the scene. 347 00:20:54,140 --> 00:20:57,140 And now for a moment in the swim. 348 00:20:57,140 --> 00:21:02,140 Well, swimming pools have often played a key role in our myths. 349 00:21:02,140 --> 00:21:03,140 They're perfect for us. 350 00:21:03,140 --> 00:21:04,140 They're clear water. 351 00:21:04,140 --> 00:21:05,140 Swim harder. 352 00:21:05,140 --> 00:21:07,140 They're often quite accessible. 353 00:21:07,140 --> 00:21:09,140 You can pull vehicles right up to them. 354 00:21:09,140 --> 00:21:13,140 But honestly, I pity our researchers and the phone calls they have to make. 355 00:21:13,140 --> 00:21:16,140 They got to call people up with a working swimming pool that's in perfect working order 356 00:21:16,180 --> 00:21:21,180 and say, hi, can we sink a car in your swimming pool? 357 00:21:21,180 --> 00:21:23,180 We promise that it's mostly clean. 358 00:21:23,180 --> 00:21:24,180 Hello? 359 00:21:24,180 --> 00:21:25,180 Hello? 360 00:21:27,180 --> 00:21:32,180 I think the most impressive things we've ever done in a pool is bullets fired into water. 361 00:21:32,180 --> 00:21:33,180 One. 362 00:21:35,180 --> 00:21:39,180 The question about bullets fired into water was whether you could dive into the water 363 00:21:39,180 --> 00:21:42,180 to protect yourself from somebody that was shooting at you. 364 00:21:42,180 --> 00:21:45,180 After testing all the guns in their arsenal. 365 00:21:45,220 --> 00:21:48,220 This is the black powder rifle. 366 00:21:49,220 --> 00:21:50,220 Deer slug in the shotgun. 367 00:21:50,220 --> 00:21:51,220 One. 368 00:21:53,220 --> 00:21:55,220 This is the Amon Grant 30 caliber. 369 00:21:58,220 --> 00:22:02,220 It turned out that a depth of three feet would be safe for a swimmer. 370 00:22:03,220 --> 00:22:04,220 There's a problem. 371 00:22:06,220 --> 00:22:11,220 But the ultimate big fish into a small pool was the 50 cal. 372 00:22:11,260 --> 00:22:15,260 This is a gun that shoots Bugs Bunny sized banana bullets. 373 00:22:15,260 --> 00:22:17,260 This is the Amon Grant. 374 00:22:17,260 --> 00:22:18,260 Yeah. 375 00:22:18,260 --> 00:22:20,260 This is the 50 caliber. 376 00:22:20,260 --> 00:22:22,260 This kills you. 377 00:22:22,260 --> 00:22:24,260 This kills you and everyone else in the room. 378 00:22:24,260 --> 00:22:30,260 These are really powerful long range weapons and they're just not made to fire at things, 379 00:22:30,260 --> 00:22:32,260 especially not a pool, at close range. 380 00:22:32,260 --> 00:22:34,260 So I didn't know what to expect. 381 00:22:34,260 --> 00:22:38,260 Yeah, let's just be prepared to get out of here really fast. 382 00:22:38,300 --> 00:22:42,300 Hopefully we'll be gone before the pool fully drains. 383 00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:44,300 Okay, eyes and ears. 384 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:47,300 This is the 50 caliber at 10 feet. 385 00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:50,300 The water did stop the bullet quite nicely. 386 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:54,300 Three, two, one. 387 00:22:57,300 --> 00:23:00,300 But the bullet did put most of the pool on the roof. 388 00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:04,300 It was raining in there for about five minutes afterwards. 389 00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:07,300 There is no bullet in the bullet 6 gel. 390 00:23:07,340 --> 00:23:10,340 So taking cover underwater was confirmed. 391 00:23:10,340 --> 00:23:15,340 It expended all its energy within three feet and became totally non-lethal. 392 00:23:15,340 --> 00:23:19,340 And that gave Adam ideas. 393 00:23:19,340 --> 00:23:23,340 Once we found out during that episode how fast the bullets lost all their energy in the water, 394 00:23:23,340 --> 00:23:27,340 I wanted to finish the episode with Jamie and full scuba gear at the bottom of the pool 395 00:23:27,340 --> 00:23:30,340 while I just unloaded a full clip of bullets at him. 396 00:23:30,340 --> 00:23:33,340 But for some reason the insurance company didn't like that. 397 00:23:33,380 --> 00:23:38,380 And at number five is the most disturbing wet and wild myth ever. 398 00:23:38,380 --> 00:23:41,380 Water torture. 399 00:23:41,380 --> 00:23:45,380 Tori and Scott, you're gonna make me cry today. 400 00:23:45,380 --> 00:23:51,380 Okay, so the water torture myth is that dripping water on your head 401 00:23:51,380 --> 00:23:56,380 works sort of like how you see in nature where a waterfall can wear away at a rock. 402 00:23:56,380 --> 00:23:59,380 Where it could drive you completely insane. 403 00:23:59,420 --> 00:24:05,420 Now, presented with this myth, did anybody really think about the fact 404 00:24:05,420 --> 00:24:09,420 that if we were successful we were torturing ourselves? 405 00:24:09,420 --> 00:24:12,420 I imagine I'm gonna fall asleep on this thing. 406 00:24:15,420 --> 00:24:16,420 Could you fall asleep? 407 00:24:16,420 --> 00:24:21,420 In the beginning, testing this myth seemed straightforward and pretty lighthearted, 408 00:24:21,420 --> 00:24:23,420 considering the subject matter. 409 00:24:23,420 --> 00:24:28,420 So to test Chinese water torture, Adam was roped in and he served as a control, 410 00:24:28,460 --> 00:24:30,460 which meant that he wasn't restrained, 411 00:24:30,460 --> 00:24:35,460 but he did have to hold the same position for a long period of time. 412 00:24:35,460 --> 00:24:37,460 The fly is definitely much worse than the water. 413 00:24:37,460 --> 00:24:40,460 So he did what any logical person would do. 414 00:24:40,460 --> 00:24:42,460 He wore his adult diapers. 415 00:24:44,460 --> 00:24:45,460 Oh. 416 00:24:45,460 --> 00:24:48,460 Lest anyone forget, there is no dignity on this busters. 417 00:24:48,460 --> 00:24:53,460 Yes, it is true that I wet myself during the course of testing that story. 418 00:24:53,500 --> 00:25:00,500 I was in the chair for so long and eventually I could no longer restrain my own bladder. 419 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:01,500 Yeah. 420 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:03,500 Oh, oh, oh my God! 421 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:12,500 We learned something really interesting on the show, which is that adult diapers, 422 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:14,500 they're not like baby diapers. 423 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:17,500 Adult diapers are for leakage, not a full pee. 424 00:25:17,500 --> 00:25:20,500 So I guess that's something to remember. 425 00:25:20,540 --> 00:25:23,540 Indeed, and based on Adam's experience, 426 00:25:23,540 --> 00:25:26,540 Carrie wasn't too concerned when it came to her turn. 427 00:25:26,540 --> 00:25:29,540 I can't even imagine this being for real. 428 00:25:29,540 --> 00:25:33,540 I'm around people that I'm secure with that I totally trust and I know that are going to get me out of this. 429 00:25:33,540 --> 00:25:35,540 I have an ambulance standing by with paramedics. 430 00:25:35,540 --> 00:25:38,540 If this was for real, I would be screaming and struggling. 431 00:25:38,540 --> 00:25:40,540 I'd probably have bloody wrists and ankles by now. 432 00:25:40,540 --> 00:25:47,540 But as it turned out, Carrie had seriously underestimated the power of that slow and steady drip. 433 00:25:47,580 --> 00:25:50,580 Are you getting upset or do you feel like you're going to panic? 434 00:25:50,580 --> 00:25:51,580 Stream. 435 00:25:53,580 --> 00:25:56,580 Do you feel like you're going to fall apart and go to pieces? 436 00:25:56,580 --> 00:25:59,580 I actually don't want to do this test right now. 437 00:25:59,580 --> 00:26:00,580 Let's get her out. 438 00:26:00,580 --> 00:26:02,580 No, it's fine. Just give me a second, okay? 439 00:26:02,580 --> 00:26:05,580 Yeah, I did tell them to continue even after they said to take me out. 440 00:26:05,580 --> 00:26:10,580 For me, I was trying to see it like climbing a mountain where, you know, it's hard, 441 00:26:10,580 --> 00:26:14,580 but you can keep going on and it was really early on in my myth busters career. 442 00:26:14,620 --> 00:26:16,620 I just had a sudden glossophobia attack. 443 00:26:16,620 --> 00:26:18,620 That's what that was a minute ago. 444 00:26:18,620 --> 00:26:20,620 I think I really wanted to just prove myself. 445 00:26:20,620 --> 00:26:23,620 I didn't want to be a wimp and take myself out of the game. 446 00:26:23,620 --> 00:26:25,620 I think I was trying to walk it off. 447 00:26:25,620 --> 00:26:27,620 Probably not the best idea. 448 00:26:27,620 --> 00:26:29,620 I think you've proven yourself. 449 00:26:29,620 --> 00:26:33,620 I think you probably could stay here longer, but I'm actually going to let you lose. 450 00:26:33,620 --> 00:26:34,620 Okay. 451 00:26:34,620 --> 00:26:39,620 One and a half hours later, it was clear they needed to not only end Carrie's ordeal, 452 00:26:39,620 --> 00:26:41,620 but to stop this myth altogether. 453 00:26:41,660 --> 00:26:45,660 Normally when we're doing a myth, you have to endure a lot of pain 454 00:26:45,660 --> 00:26:50,660 in order to gather enough data so that way you can either bust or confirm a myth. 455 00:26:50,660 --> 00:26:55,660 But in that particular situation, it was so unbearable that we had to call it. 456 00:26:55,660 --> 00:26:59,660 We're often asked to revisit myths. Do them a little differently. 457 00:26:59,660 --> 00:27:05,660 I can guarantee you, I will never, never do water torture again. 458 00:27:05,660 --> 00:27:10,660 Next up in our splashdown, we put the wild into wet and wild. 459 00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:12,700 And then I shot it. 460 00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:22,700 Next, we're taking a walk on the wet and wild side. 461 00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:28,700 From kissing dolphins, that is so cool. 462 00:27:28,700 --> 00:27:33,700 Just a little clammy, a little wet, but I mean, you're making out with a fish. What do you want? 463 00:27:33,700 --> 00:27:36,700 To reanimating dead fish. 464 00:27:36,740 --> 00:27:38,740 Frank and fish was pretty much like he sounds. 465 00:27:38,740 --> 00:27:43,740 I mean, I took a fish and I brought it to life using electricity. 466 00:27:45,740 --> 00:27:47,740 And then I shot it. 467 00:27:49,740 --> 00:27:53,740 The mythbusters have learned a lot from their brushes with aquatic life. 468 00:27:53,740 --> 00:27:57,740 I did find out that if you hold onto a penguin, you have to wash your hands 469 00:27:57,740 --> 00:27:59,740 because you can get salmonella. 470 00:27:59,740 --> 00:28:02,740 But one experience sticks in Adam's mind. 471 00:28:02,780 --> 00:28:05,780 One of my personal favorites for the best aquatic animal myths 472 00:28:05,780 --> 00:28:09,780 has to be one of the early ones, octopus pregnancies. 473 00:28:09,780 --> 00:28:14,780 The question here was whether or not you could accidentally swallow the fertilized egg of an octopus 474 00:28:14,780 --> 00:28:17,780 and bring it fully to term in your stomach. 475 00:28:17,780 --> 00:28:22,780 And to test that, they needed a close encounter of the octopus kind. 476 00:28:22,780 --> 00:28:24,780 Oh, wow. 477 00:28:24,780 --> 00:28:29,780 Now, it turns out I, and I've met several octopi since then, 478 00:28:29,820 --> 00:28:32,820 have skin that octopi love. 479 00:28:32,820 --> 00:28:34,820 Oh, that is so cool. 480 00:28:34,820 --> 00:28:35,820 They love me. 481 00:28:35,820 --> 00:28:37,820 Oh, you must taste really good. 482 00:28:37,820 --> 00:28:39,820 Because he's really interested in you. 483 00:28:39,820 --> 00:28:41,820 We got along really well. 484 00:28:41,820 --> 00:28:42,820 Yeah, he's very excited. 485 00:28:42,820 --> 00:28:47,820 I did have to explain to my wife why I had circular hickeys all the way up my arm. 486 00:28:47,820 --> 00:28:51,820 But there is nothing quite like getting so much affection from a cephalopod. 487 00:28:51,820 --> 00:28:53,820 It is amazing. 488 00:28:53,820 --> 00:28:57,820 It even squirted water playfully at me during our time together. 489 00:28:57,820 --> 00:28:58,820 I'll never forget that. 490 00:28:59,820 --> 00:29:03,820 At number three, it's all aboard for some boat destruction. 491 00:29:03,820 --> 00:29:07,820 Where there's water, there are boats. 492 00:29:07,820 --> 00:29:10,820 And where there are mitbusters, there's destruction. 493 00:29:10,820 --> 00:29:12,820 Just bump, boom! 494 00:29:12,820 --> 00:29:15,820 So if you put the two together, you've got boat destruction. 495 00:29:15,820 --> 00:29:20,820 But one cursed craft looms in their memories. 496 00:29:20,820 --> 00:29:23,820 We have a lot of frustrating moments on the show. 497 00:29:23,820 --> 00:29:26,820 But one that sticks out in my mind is bifurcated boat. 498 00:29:26,860 --> 00:29:32,860 So bifurcated boat is about a boat that got split down the middle on a pole. 499 00:29:32,860 --> 00:29:36,860 Now, obviously you would think we'd test this with a boat on water. 500 00:29:36,860 --> 00:29:38,860 But we couldn't. 501 00:29:38,860 --> 00:29:45,860 Because having a powered boat on water that would potentially sink would create an ecological hazard. 502 00:29:45,860 --> 00:29:47,860 Are you trying to hold my hand? 503 00:29:47,860 --> 00:29:49,860 No, I'm just trying to hold onto something. 504 00:29:49,860 --> 00:29:55,860 So really, the best option that we had was to do this on land. 505 00:29:55,900 --> 00:30:02,900 Testing this myth out of the water may have been good for the environment, but not for our mitbusters. 506 00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:04,900 From the very beginning, things started to go wrong. 507 00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:06,900 Let's start with the weather. 508 00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:12,900 I'm so over this one. I'm pretty much over this one. 509 00:30:12,900 --> 00:30:16,900 And then there was the instant of the blue rope. 510 00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:22,900 With the light fading and time running out, the breakaway broke. 511 00:30:22,940 --> 00:30:24,940 Did we lose the cable? 512 00:30:24,940 --> 00:30:26,940 Cable broke. 513 00:30:26,940 --> 00:30:28,940 And so apparently did the team. 514 00:30:28,940 --> 00:30:34,940 So for all the other things where we tow something big into something else, it cracks us. 515 00:30:34,940 --> 00:30:36,940 We use a breakaway rope. 516 00:30:36,940 --> 00:30:40,940 And there's a standard one that we've been using, which is a blue marine rope. 517 00:30:40,940 --> 00:30:43,940 Grant's sitting there and he's like, yeah, Tori gave me this piece of rope. 518 00:30:43,940 --> 00:30:45,940 We always use blue rope, not this stuff. 519 00:30:45,940 --> 00:30:51,940 But on this particular one, Tori really didn't want to use that. He wanted to use this. 520 00:30:51,980 --> 00:30:55,980 Grant says one thing, Tori says another thing. 521 00:30:55,980 --> 00:30:59,980 Moments before that, I showed him the rope. He was like, yeah, that'll work. 522 00:30:59,980 --> 00:31:03,980 So I don't understand what happened between that moment and that moment. 523 00:31:03,980 --> 00:31:08,980 I think what we're going to do is go back to what we used to use that was working. 524 00:31:10,980 --> 00:31:12,980 Dude, we've never used the blue rope. 525 00:31:12,980 --> 00:31:14,980 We always use the blue rope. 526 00:31:14,980 --> 00:31:16,980 Yes, we do. 527 00:31:16,980 --> 00:31:18,980 Yes, we do. 528 00:31:19,020 --> 00:31:23,020 Dude, I think that's the problem is we each have a different recollection of what happened. 529 00:31:23,020 --> 00:31:30,020 All I know is to this day, someone in the office will yell, we always use the blue rope. 530 00:31:30,020 --> 00:31:32,020 The team is proud. 531 00:31:32,020 --> 00:31:37,020 On day two, with the blue rope controversy behind them, the team tried again. 532 00:31:44,020 --> 00:31:46,020 And again. 533 00:31:49,020 --> 00:31:52,020 Well, it didn't buy a fricade, but it was still pretty cool. 534 00:31:52,020 --> 00:31:56,020 But nothing could get the method split to split. 535 00:31:56,020 --> 00:32:04,020 So what we decided to do is take the crane, raise up the boat as high as it can go, maybe like 90 feet, and drop it nose first. 536 00:32:04,020 --> 00:32:05,020 Go, go, go, go, go, go. 537 00:32:05,020 --> 00:32:09,020 It smashed onto the tarmac. We were like, yeah! 538 00:32:09,060 --> 00:32:11,060 Ha ha ha! 539 00:32:11,060 --> 00:32:13,060 Oh! 540 00:32:13,060 --> 00:32:24,060 Just when we thought we were done and we were going to take our revenge on the bifurcated boat, apparently the bifurcated boat had other plans and took revenge on us. 541 00:32:24,060 --> 00:32:26,060 We are in so much trouble. 542 00:32:26,060 --> 00:32:28,060 Yeah, we're kind of in trouble. 543 00:32:28,060 --> 00:32:32,060 It was just altogether a really disastrous experiment. 544 00:32:32,060 --> 00:32:35,060 Next up, the Mythbusters' darkest hour. 545 00:32:35,060 --> 00:32:37,060 You're pretty much spate. 546 00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:41,100 And find out our splash-tacular weapon wild number one. 547 00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:51,100 Coming in at number two, our unforgettable encounters with nature's deadliest catch. 548 00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:53,100 Whoa! 549 00:32:53,100 --> 00:32:58,100 We've done so many dark myths it is absolutely impossible to pick one that's the all-time favorite. 550 00:32:58,100 --> 00:32:59,100 Yeah! 551 00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:00,100 Wow! 552 00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:01,100 Something just touched me! 553 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:03,100 So we're all going to do this individually. 554 00:33:03,140 --> 00:33:07,140 Yep, just when they thought it was safe to go back in the water... 555 00:33:07,140 --> 00:33:08,140 Come on, it's loaded! 556 00:33:08,140 --> 00:33:09,140 He was like... 557 00:33:09,140 --> 00:33:10,140 Grrrr! 558 00:33:10,140 --> 00:33:14,140 The Mythbusters are reliving their most memorable shark moments. 559 00:33:14,140 --> 00:33:15,140 Yeah! 560 00:33:15,140 --> 00:33:19,140 And to kick us off is Adam's favorite, straight from the sharks mouth. 561 00:33:19,140 --> 00:33:21,140 Ha ha ha ha ha ha! 562 00:33:21,140 --> 00:33:23,140 This is my new favorite thing we have made. 563 00:33:23,140 --> 00:33:29,140 My favorite shark moment on the show does not involve a real-life shark. It involves our Robo Shark. 564 00:33:29,180 --> 00:33:33,180 Ha ha ha ha ha ha! 565 00:33:33,180 --> 00:33:37,180 Ha ha ha ha ha ha! 566 00:33:37,180 --> 00:33:39,180 Dude, it's so perfect! 567 00:33:39,180 --> 00:33:43,180 That thing, that robot is not only one of the most beautiful things we've ever built. 568 00:33:46,180 --> 00:33:48,180 It's time to go swimming. 569 00:33:48,180 --> 00:33:50,180 It's time for his first meal. 570 00:33:50,180 --> 00:33:54,180 Both beautiful in its execution and beautiful to watch it move in the water. 571 00:33:54,180 --> 00:34:07,180 water. But seriously, being in its jaws while it's thrashing me about trying to poke its 572 00:34:07,180 --> 00:34:19,180 eyes out? It really satisfies something inside of me, like this early 7 year old Adam's desire 573 00:34:19,180 --> 00:34:29,180 to be in an action movie. Adam's creature feature was impressive, but Jayne's most memorable 574 00:34:29,180 --> 00:34:35,180 moment was dicing with danger in a dinghy. The idea here was that a fish that had been 575 00:34:35,180 --> 00:34:40,660 wounded would thrash around and attract the attention of sharks. And so of course I decided 576 00:34:40,660 --> 00:34:47,900 to test this by getting into an inflatable toy boat. Okay, flapping fish. And going out 577 00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:52,900 into the middle of a bunch of sharks and slapping my oars to see whether it attracted them more. 578 00:34:52,900 --> 00:35:01,900 Come on. This is a definite bite. I just came down the floor with this. Hey! It did. Yeah! 579 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:06,900 Of course that made our Didenaster kind of nervous for some reason. I don't know why, 580 00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:12,900 but I was having a great all time. There we go. That's what I'm talking about. It was 581 00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:18,900 crazy. You just don't see that every day, at least not in live through it. Stirring up 582 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:25,900 a shark frenzy in an inflatable was crazy. But for our intrepid trio, one moment was 583 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:33,900 so terrifying they all picked it. Now we're testing the myth do flashlights attract sharks. 584 00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:38,900 Now it's obvious you can't test that in daylight, so we had to do nightdives. See you back on 585 00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:47,900 the surface. Try not to get eaten. Now nightdiving alone is scary. Nightdives with sharks, it's 586 00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:55,900 terrifying. During the day, it's fine. I mean you can see the sharks, they can see you, but 587 00:35:55,900 --> 00:36:04,900 at night, all bets are off. It's a little scary down here. You can't see anything down there. 588 00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:10,900 They have all the advantages and you, you're pretty much bait. 589 00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:18,900 FD sharks, FD 3 sharks. I got a lot of activity down here. We were in the dark, we were at 590 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:24,900 depth. Definitely, it ended in a flight. It's creeping me up. We might as well have been 591 00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:33,900 holding handfuls of chum. Holy crap. The sharks were just circling. They got so aggressive. 592 00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:40,900 They actually came right into my face. I had to push one away with the flashlight. 593 00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:49,900 All of a sudden, the dive master gets this look in his face and he gives everybody signal to get back on the 594 00:36:49,900 --> 00:36:56,900 boat. When he does that, your blood runs cold. I was the last to get back onto the boat and I was 595 00:36:56,900 --> 00:37:01,900 like, what's going on? Why are we getting onto the boat? And he's like, oh, yeah, tiger shark came 596 00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:07,900 around. So, you know, that chain mail you're wearing wouldn't help. Snaps your arm right off. I got on the 597 00:37:07,900 --> 00:37:11,900 boat so fast, I think I might have actually leapt out of the water onto the boat. 598 00:37:14,900 --> 00:37:22,900 There's no doubt that during all their encounters, I guess they're hungry today. These infamous fish 599 00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:29,900 have terrified our hosts. Why the hell are we doing this? But they've also come to respect them. 600 00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:35,900 There's one more thing I got to say in that is that we in a lot of other shows make a big drama about 601 00:37:35,900 --> 00:37:41,900 sharks and how dangerous they are and everything. But the reality is that more people die in their 602 00:37:41,900 --> 00:37:47,900 bathrooms by like slipping and falling and hitting themselves on the head on the toilet or something 603 00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:54,900 than are killed by sharks. And yet we're killing sharks by the millions for stuff like shark fin soup 604 00:37:54,900 --> 00:37:59,900 or some other stupid thing. So let's stop doing that, okay? Sharks are really cool. 605 00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:06,900 Folks, we're gonna need a bigger boat because this is our wettest and wildest moment. 606 00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:16,900 After the spills, chills and thrills, we're ending with an ingenious bill. 607 00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:23,900 Now it may be because Jamie is a salty sea dog of salty sea dogs and I just like making anything 608 00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:29,900 I can. We love making our own boats. Hurry up, hurry up, they're coming. 609 00:38:31,900 --> 00:38:38,900 The Alcatraz escape boat was made out of raincoats and was inflatable. The duct tape boat was made out of duct tape, of course. 610 00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:46,900 And the air cylinder speed boat was made out of a speed boat that was powered by air cylinders. 611 00:38:46,900 --> 00:38:50,900 I mean, it didn't do anything really important, but it was cool looking. 612 00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:55,900 But shiver me timbers if this isn't the most novel boat build of all. 613 00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:59,900 Drum roll please. The Pycrete boat. 614 00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:05,900 Pycrete is something that had been on Jamie's mental list for years before we tested it. 615 00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:11,900 And then we were asked to go back to Alaska a second time to do another Alaska special. 616 00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:19,900 And then Jamie mentioned the Pycrete boat. And it was one of those moments where we all realized instantly this is the myth we have to test. 617 00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:22,900 This is Pycrete. Aircraft carrier is hot. 618 00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:30,900 The myth here was based on an idea that somebody had around World War II that you could build an aircraft carrier out of sawdust and water. 619 00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:35,900 Sawdust and water, bad with that typically mythbusters twist. 620 00:39:35,900 --> 00:39:41,900 We stumbled upon newspaper as an ideal replacement for sawdust. 621 00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:43,900 I love wet newspaper. 622 00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:47,900 Especially for building a shell boat like the one we finally built. 623 00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:56,900 With the kids at Ketchikan High taking care of the paperwork, all Adam and Jamie had to do was craft the scoop of the century. 624 00:39:56,900 --> 00:40:01,900 We're going to be layering in the newspapers layer over layer like the shingles of a roof. 625 00:40:01,900 --> 00:40:06,900 So that all the open sides of the newspaper point away from the direction of travel. 626 00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:08,900 I feel like I'm working in a swamp. 627 00:40:08,900 --> 00:40:12,900 After a back breaking build, the boat was put on ice. 628 00:40:13,900 --> 00:40:17,900 It's a nice boat and it's a nice boat. 629 00:40:17,900 --> 00:40:19,900 Get it? 630 00:40:19,900 --> 00:40:20,900 I got it. 631 00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:27,900 And the mythbusters were ready for launch. But would it sail or become yesterday's news? 632 00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:29,900 Ba-ba-ba! 633 00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:32,900 Okay, you and I are pushing, ready? 634 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:37,900 It's funny that Alcatraz and the Pycrete boat both have moments that are quite similar. 635 00:40:37,900 --> 00:40:40,900 Ha ha ha! Ah! Look at that! 636 00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:47,900 The very first time we placed each of those boats in the water, we weren't sure whether there'd be total failure. 637 00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:49,900 Go Jamie, it's all you buddy. 638 00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:50,900 You're the man, baby. 639 00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:51,900 Come on, baby. 640 00:40:51,900 --> 00:40:52,900 Oh, yeah! 641 00:40:52,900 --> 00:40:54,900 Or maybe it would last a little while. 642 00:40:54,900 --> 00:41:00,900 Do you realize what this is? The maiden voyage of yesterday's news. Ice and newspaper. Let's go. 643 00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:05,900 In either case, did we expect the boat to be as seaworthy as it turned out to be? 644 00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:08,900 When I put that boat in the water, I knew I had a choice. 645 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:14,900 I could either take it easy and try not to break the thing, or I could just gun it and see whether it worked. 646 00:41:17,900 --> 00:41:18,900 Yee-haw! 647 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:24,900 I decided to do the ladder because the clock was ticking and that thing was going to melt. 648 00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:26,900 It was then or never. 649 00:41:26,900 --> 00:41:28,900 I'm king of the world! 650 00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:32,900 Yee-haw! 651 00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:37,900 I really like this story because it exemplifies what I like to see come out of Mythbusters. 652 00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:39,900 We've got to keep her afloat! 653 00:41:39,900 --> 00:41:49,900 And that is that we start with a simple seed of an idea that might be good or maybe not, but eventually we take it someplace that it's never gone before. 654 00:41:49,900 --> 00:41:55,900 And in this case, we were able to make a frozen speedboat. And it actually worked. 655 00:41:57,900 --> 00:42:00,900 I don't want to get all misty on you, but it's a pleasure building strange crap with you.