On this episode of "Mythbusters" --
I'm king of the world.
We were diving into the death,
We might as well been holding handful of chum.
shaping up ban shipping out
to get the inside scoop on the myth that a gun hole for H2O,
That made our dive master
kind of nervous for some reason.
I don't know why.
as we count down the top 12
wettest and wildest moments in mythbuster history.
It is true that I wet myself
during the course of testing that story.
It was disgusting.
Who are the mythbusters?
Adam Savage,
and Jamie Heinaman.
I almost too excited.
Between them, more than 30 years of special-effects experience.
Together with Grant Imahara,
Save yourself.
Kari Byron
and Tory Belleci.
They don't just tell the myths.
They put them to the test.
For this mythbusters dirty dozen special, just add water.
What are we waiting for?
Just one moment.
Only one.
Okay. They are late so I guess I'll tell you.
We are counting down the top 12
best mythbusters moments that involve water.
Water?
Water.
So anything that we've done
that involves us being around, in, or under the water?
Exactly.
It gives us a chance to
celebrate and scrutinize our
best myth busters watery escapades.
- Any chance to see Jamie swim in syrup again? - Precisely.
- This is the pool party? - Lame.
Let's start the show.
First up in the wet and wild ride --
We've sunk boats.
We've raised boats.
We've nearly drowned in cars
but we should really kick this off
with water slide wipeout.
The myth is an online video
that a fan sent us that shows
Some guys having built a massive
water slide on the side of this hill.
He slides down it, hits the edge
of the water, slides in the air
for this impossible long length
of time and lands safely in this
tiny, little swimming pool like 100 feet away.
That was our task, to test that.
With the guys not willing to
risk their lives on sticking the landing,
Splat!
They decided to test this slide over water.
But, first, they had to build it.
Isn't that great?
It is like monster truck fantasy camp.
The building of this ramp was positively egyptian.
I mean, I'm down at the bottom
putting together this wood frame and truss work
that will hold the plywood together for the actual ramp part
while Jamie is up top feeding
this massive hundreds of foot long piece of plywood
he is screwing together up top
and slowly rolling down towards me.
It looks great.
You really don't get the sense from a camera how steep something is
like you do when you are really there.
Let me tell you, that was one steep slide.
It was so steep that you really had to struggle to walk up or down it.
Finally, with the mega wosh complete,
it was time for its first human test.
I started from halfway up the ramp figuring that would be safe.
It was almost the most dangerous thing we did in the whole thing.
It wasn't going very fast so
he kind of dropped like a son right off the end of it.
Gave me a bit of a sinking feeling,
because I knew there wasn't much depth of water there,
which meant he could have gotten hurt.
I'm okay.
But, if at first, you don't succeed, try again. Higher.
We found out once we started testing that
the lubrication we put on the slide was extremely important.
If you didn't do it exactly right,
you weren't going to get enough speed and
you wouldn't go far enough off the end of the ramp.
Adam figured the best the way to do this was to
just dump a massive bucket of it on to the slide.
But after a face full of foam --
I couldn't see a thing. I hit the ramp blind.
I figured we would be better off by putting it on the sprayer.
Adam agreed that Jamie had the lubrication thrust.
But on day two, it was accuracy, not
lubrication giving Adam a headache.
I landed wrong.
When you land wrong flying
70 feet through the air into water,
you get an instant headache.
By the time of the third jump
when we actually had our target out, I was really cranky.
So our safety guide, stunt coordinator,
Nick Pussie comes up to the top of the ramp
and says to me, are you a stunt man, man?
It is not here, it is here.
You do all the work before you leave the ramp.
The only thing I want you thinking when you hit that water is,
does my director, Alex, want another take.
You know how to do this. I will see you at the bottom.
And he turned around and went to the bottom of the ramp.
And three, two --
As I thought, oh, my god, i'm in a movie,
I'm in a movie about a guy about to doing a key jump.
The thing was, his talk worked perfectly.
My third jump, I landed perfectly 50-degree angle,
feet in the center of the target,
didn't even disturb the actual target.
It is the bull's eye that
rocketed this incredible wet and wild moment into our countdown.
It couldn't have gone better.
Next is an explosive boom and bust.
No myth the busters countdown would ever be complete
without a blast.
Explosives and water make one heck of a team.
I don't get that excited about using explosives to
just destroy things.
I do find it really interesting when you can use them to do specific work.
So that would mean my favorite water explosion
would have to involve safe cracking.
The story here was that you
could open this safe without
destroying the contents by
filling it with water first.
We got a safe. We filled it with water.
We put explosives in it and we blew it up.
Three, two, one.
Look at the door.
That worked beautifully.
I would like to point out that
former FBI special agent, Frank Doyle,
offered us all a steak dinner if it worked.
So convinced was he that it would not.
We've never yet gotten our steak dinner, Frank.
But for the ultimate combination of water and explosives
it is over to Grant.
So the black powder shark myth
comes from the movie "Deep Blue Sea."
In that, the hero has to kill this highly intelligent
very deadly, very large shark.
What he does is empties a number of flares into a canister
There should be enough black powder in this flare
to give us 2 1/2 sticks of dynamite.
He fires it at the shark that connected by a steel cable back
to him which he then touches to the end of a battery and "Boom!".
The shark blows up.
First things first, they needed a big fish to fry.
So Tory created Hugo. The giant foam shark.
So often on the show, our schedule doesn't allow us to
take time to make it exactly how you want it,
but this one magical time on Myth Busters,
I was allowed to sculpt this shark.
It turned out better than I thought it would.
He put so much time and love into building that big shark.
That was a great idea. How you getting back on the boat?
I haven't thought about that yet.
Even named it.
He might even have crossed the line a little bit.
That a shark.
Finally, at the lake
with Hugo ready to become shark foam soup,
the guys flared up their flares.
What we actually found when we tested this,
when you set off that amount of black powder under water.
Ready to fire in three, two, one.
Pretty much nothing happened.
It did no damage at all.
So we did what we usually do.
We called in our friend, Frank Doyle.
He brought 400 pounds of explosives
to actually execute the final experiment.
It is going to be magnificent.
Magnificent compared to the previous damp squid.
We are waiting for this explosion to go off.
We give a three, two, one!
And then nothing happens.
This is every bomb tech's worst nightmare.
All of us, I think, starting to get a little heart flutter
because the bomb squad had to take a boat all the way in
and find out what went wrong.
This is like the worst experiment ever.
We hadn't been trained to problem solve
a bomb of that size not going off.
I would not want to be the person in charge.
Frank Doyle definitely earned his stripes that day.
- He is a bad ass. - Indeed, he is.
After a gut-wrenching 40-minute wait with the charges reset,
it was time for take two.
Three, two, one!
This huge tower of water just shot into the air
pieces of Hugo everywhere.
We got down to the lake.
It was just foam rubber shark pieces floating all over.
Hugo!
For Tory, although Hugo was hugh gone,
at least he will always have the high speeds.
After the break, swimming Hyneman style.
Raise arms up, leave out of water, put arms down
And later what will be the wettest and wildest number one?
Drum roll, please.
There is water, water everywhere.
Because we are counting down our most memorable myths.
At number ten, the guys slip into
something a little more uncomfortable.
Obviously, whether you are tackling myths that are wet or wild
or especially both,
it means that you are going to get wet
And often when you are going to get wet,
Unfortunately, it means you are going to get cold too.
Yep, experimenting in water can get very cold very fast.
@#%$&*!
The most hypothermic myth they they ever tested
will surprise you.
The coldest and wetest I think we've ever been
has to be swimming in syrup.
The question was whether or not
you could swim faster in syrup rather than water.
The reason it was so cold is two-fold.
One it was winter in San Francisco,
which is not cold by most people's standard.
But when you are swimming in syrup,
it's pretty freking cold.
The second reason is because the syrup
is not something you can dry off of yourself.
You have to be rinsed off.
You have to be rinsed off in water
we could never get warmer than slightly look warm.
It may have been freezing
but what warmed the cockles of Adam's heart
was Jamie swimming.
Jamie's technique at swimming
is kind of like his technique at building something,
in which he thinks through every step as he is going
which makes him a little bit plotting as a swimmer.
I belive he is actually doing this, raise arms up,
lift out of water, put arms down, swim forward;
raise arms up, lift out of water, put...
Like he is like a robot working through a set of instructions.
I was actually surprised
how difficult it was for him to swim.
I thought he descended from the great walrus tribe.
So I figure he would be great swimmer.
The great walrus tribe,
I am going to get killed for that one.
The next is a moment all about dunking and diving.
Our intrepid mythbusters have
gone under cover under water for many a myth.
It is party time.
But when it comes to strange suits and underwater adventures
The maritime myth of a diver stuck to his diving helmet
takes the grizzly prize.
With Kari on maternity leave,
it was down to Tory to create the diver.
I present to you, my creation, meat man.
Oh, I almost throw up.
Meat man was disgusting.
I had a love for him, because I built the guy
but he was rotting pork meat.
At one point, the refrigerator truck got shut off.
So it spent a night unrefrigerated.
The next day, the rotting flesh was unbearable.
How many mythbusters does it take
to get meat men in a diving suit?
With their old time diving suit completely porked out,
it was time for meat man to meet his deep sea fate.
If you see any sharks, play dead.
At 300 feet below the surface
with the underwater camera poised, Grant cut the cord.
Three, two, one.
One thing we didn't foresee,
the suit was filled with the stench of rotting flesh.
So when Grant vented the suit,
all that air came rushing into the boat with us.
It was nauseating.
Then, at one moment, everything just gets to the point where it all goes.
The meat man is in the helmet.
You see all the guts squashed up against the glass.
It was disgusting.
It works.
It worked so well that it is also a demonstration of why you
should never lend the mythbusters anything.
We boroughed a set of antique diving equipment.
His stomach is inside his helmet.
We promised the guy.
No, it is totally going to be fine. It is going to be great.
Don't worry about it.
The helmet was not in returnable condition.
Later -- it is a little scary down here.
But, first --
Like this -- we were like,
Oh, my god.
Next on the Wet and Wild splashdown
is a myth as cold as ice.
The idea behind the myth of
blue ice is that there is a leaky toilet on a commercial airline.
That leaky toilet allows a giant chunk of ice
to form on the side of the jet.
That chunk of ice breaks off
and punches a hole into someone's house.
How do you capture
the forming of blue ice on the outside
of an moving airplane at altitude.
I mean, it's almost impossible.
Impossible, unless you have an open invitation to geektopia.
The Isenar research center
it is a world class research facility.
They test spacecraft, fighter jets,
commercial aircraft and
here we come in with our rinky dinky things.
- Does this mean I am the R2D2? - Oh, boy.
But you know what, what makes it great is that
they are like, "Absolutely,
we will help you out because we want to get to the bottom of this too."
How can you not love a set of guys whose motto is, we freeze to please.
However getting to the bottom of this
myth was not as quick as you might think.
Fire it up.
All right, let's go. Fire it up.
Maximum work.
It takes hours to cool down the air,
to chill it to operating temperature.
We started our experiment at 8:00 A.M.
We did not get out of there 1:00 A.M. the next day.
So it turns out to be a 17-hour day.
But those hours were well spent
because this myth was looking plausible.
Look out quick, guys. It is building up.
The ice forms so perfectly
that all the NASA guys could not believe how well it worked.
They even told us, we have had tests
that have been planned for years.
It is approaching soccer ball size.
And it's like, you guys throw this crazy thing together.
We are getting bigger chunks breaking off.
Come here, do the test and it works.
I mean, they were just saying sometimes it
just shows you, simple is better.
Indeed. As jumping out of a plane with a block of
simulated blue ice turned out to be.
Steady attacked!
Just as the myth predicted.
Check it out.
It dug itself into the ground.
However, for those of you watching the skies --
I really don't think that the
chances are high it is going to happen.
The chain of the events is a perfect
storm of circumstances.
I think it is going to be a pretty rare event but, it is still possible.
From plummeting ice to the
dangers of letting off steam,
At the other end of the spectrum from ice is gaseous water.
And that is steam.
Steam has absolutely given us some of our most choice moments on the show.
From the Archimedes Cannon
to exploding fire extinguishers,
there has been a lot of hot and steamy mythbusters moments.
You think that the shoo-in for the best moment
would be the water heater rocket.
There is a good reason for that.
Becasue water heater's failing is pure
unadulterated awesome.
Unadulterated awesome,
because you never know when they will blow.
Right when you kind of relax
and think everything is going to be okay,
that's when the vessel decides to rupture.
But surprisingly, explosions pale in comparison to
the extreme steam power of this.
The steam power that gets the numb for me
is my favorite has to be steam machine gun.
This is a mythical machine
supposed to be developed during the American civil war.
That was a steam-powered rotary machine gun
that had incredibly devlivered ball bearings at a deadly rate of speed.
We built one.
Yes, they did.
And stoking their big, bad steam machine,
those unpredictable water heaters.
It was during the build of the steam machine gun
that Jamie and I got a truly visceral understanding of the power of steam.
Oh, wow. I can see where it hit.
Very pleased. And terrified.
The steam machine gun was one of those devices that was
so over the top and kind of out of control.
You might think that it was too dangerous to actually take on.
This was for distance and for glory.
Three, two, one.
But, you know, we've done the math.
We had made sure that we had the overpressure relief valves on it.
We had very sturdy mechanical rigs and guards on it.
But still, you know, you get stuff like that going really, really fast,
it is kind of messed up.
Messed up but ultimately busted.
- Soldier! - Sir, yes, sir.
What do you think of the steam machine gun as a weapon of war?
Sir, it is not very effective, sir.
Okay, let's get out of here.
Coming right up,
this kills you and this kills everyone else in the room.
We are halfway through our splashtacular countdown.
But there are plenty more myths in the scence.
Now, for a moment in the swim.
Swimming pools have often
played a key role in our myths.
They are perfect for us.
They are clear water.
Swim harder.
They are often quite accessible.
You can pull vehicles right up to them.
But, honestly, I pity our researchers
that have phones calls they have to make.
They got to call people up with a working swimming pool
that in perfect working order,
and say, hi, can we sink a car in your swimming pool?
We promise it is mostly clean.
Hello, hello.
I think the most impressive things
we have ever done in a pool
is bullets fired into water.
Three, two, one.
The question about bullets fireded into water was whether
you could dive into the water to protect yourself
from somebody that was shooting at you.
After testing all the guns in their arsenal --
This is the black powder rifle.
Here is a slug in the shotgun.
One.
This is m-1 grand 30 caliber.
It turned out that a depth of three feet
would be safe for a swimmer.
There is your problem.
But the ultimate big fish
into a small pool was the 50 cal.
This is a gun that shoots Bugs Bunny-sized banana bullets.
This is the m-1 grand.
This is the 50 caliber.
This kills you.
This kills you and everyone else in the room.
These are really powerful,
long-range weapons.
They are not made to fire at things,
especially not a pool, at close range.
So I didn't know what to expect.
Let's just be prepared to pack and get out of here really fast.
Hopefully, we will be gone before the pool fully drains.
Okay, eyes and ears,
this is a 50-caliber at ten feet.
The water did stop the bullet quite nicely.
Three, two, one.
But the bullet did put most of the pool on the roof.
It was raining in there for about five minutes afterwards.
There was no bullet in the bullets' shell.
So taking cover under water was confirmed.
It spent all of its energy within three feet and became totally nonlethal.
And that gave Adam ideas.
Once we found out during that episode
how fast the bullets lost all their energy in the water,
I wanted to finish the episode with Jamie
in full scuba gear at the bottom of the pool
while I unloaded a full clip of bullets at him.
For some reason, the insurance company didn't like that.
At number five is the most disturbing wet and wild myth ever,
water torture.
Tory and Scotty are going to
make me cry today.
The water torture myth is
that dripping water on your head
works sort of like how you see in nature
where a waterfall can wear away at a rock,
where it could drive you completely insane.
Now, presented with this myth,
did anybody really think about the fact that if we were successful,
we were torturing ourself.
I imagine I am going to fall
asleep on this thing.
Could you fall asleep?
In the beginning, testing this myth seemed straightforward
and pretty light hearted,
considering the subject matter.
So to test chinese water torture,
Adam was robed, he served as the control,
which meant he wasn't restrained
but he did have to hold the same position for a long period of time.
The fly is much worse than the water.
So he did what any logical person would do.
He wore his adult diapers.
Lest anyone forget, there is no dignity on Mythbusters.
Yes, it is true I wet myself during the course of testing that story.
I was in the chair for so long,
eventually, I could no longer restrain my own bladder.
Oh, oh, oh my god.
We learned something really interesting on the show,
which is that adult diapers,
they are not like baby diapers.
Adult diapers are for leakage,
not a full pee.
I guess that's something to remember.
Indeed. Based on Adam's experience,
Kari wasn't too concerned whether it came to her turn.
I can't even imagine this being for real.
I am around people I am secure
with and I totally trust.
I know they are going to get me out of this.
I have an ambulance standing by with paramedics.
If this was for real, I would be screaming and struggling
I'll probably have bloody wrists and ankles by now.
But as it turned out
Kari had seriously
underestimated the power of that slow and steady drip.
Are you getting upset and
feel like you are going to panic?
Extreme.
You feel like you are going
to fall apart and go to pieces?
I actually don't want to do this test right now.
Let's get her out.
No, it's fine, give me a second, okay.
I did tell them to continue even after
they said to take me out.
For me, I was trying to see it like climbing a mountain where
it is hard but you can keep going on
and it was really early on in my mythbusters career.
I just had a sudden claustrophobia attack.
That's what that was a minute ago.
I wanted to prove myself.
I didn't want to be a wimp and
take myself out of the game.
I think I was trying to walk it off.
Probably not the best idea.
You have proven yourself that
you probably could stay here longer.
But I am actually going to let you loose.
One and a half hours later,
it was clear they needed to not only end Kari's ordeal
but to stop this myth all together.
Normally, when we are doing a myth,
you have to endure a lot of pain
in order to gather enough data
so that way you can either bust or confirm the myth.
In that particular situation, it was so unbearable
that we had to call it.
What if asked to revisit myths
and do them a little differently.
I can guarantee you, I will
never, never do water torture again.
Next up in our splashdown,
we put the wild into wet and wild.
Then, I shot it.
Next, we're taking a walk on the wet and wild side.
From kissing dolphins
That is so cool.
Just a little clammy, a little wet
but I mean you are making out with a fish.
What do you want?
to reanimating dead fish.
Franken fish was pretty much like it sounds.
I took a fish and brought it to life using electricity
and then I shot it.
The mythbusters have learned
a lot from their brushes with aquatic life.
I just found out that if you were holding on to a penguin,
you have to wash your hands
because you can get salmonella.
But one experiment sticks in Adam's mind.
One of my personal favorites for the best aquatic animal myth
has to be one of the early ones, "Octopus Pregnancy".
the question here was, whether or not
you could accidentally swallow the fertilized egg of an octopus
and bring it fully to term in your stomach.
And to test that,
they needed a close encounter of the octopus kind.
Now it turns out, I, and I've met several octopi since then,
have skin that octopi love.
So cool!
They love me.
You must taste really good.
'Cause he is really interested in you.
We got along really well.
He is very excited.
I did have to explain to my wife
why I had circular hickeys all the way up my arm,
but there is nothing quite like
getting so much affection from a cephalopod.
It is amazing.
It even squirted water playfully at me during our time together.
I will never forget that.
Number Three, it's all aboard
for some boat destruction.
Where there is water, there are boats.
And where there is mythbusters,
there is destruction.
So if you put the two together,
you have got boat destruction.
But one cursed craft looms in their memories.
We had a lot of frustrating moments on the show,
but one that sticks out in my mind is "Bifurcated Boat."
So "Bifurcated Boat" is about a boat
that got split down the middle on a pole.
Now, obviously you would think we'd test this
with a boat on watter,
but we couldn't.
Because having a power boat on water
that would potentially sink
would create a ecological hazard.
Are you trying to hold my hands?
No. I am trying to hold on to something.
So really, the best option that we had
was to do this on land.
Testing this myth out of the water
may have been good for the environment,
but not for our mythbusters.
From the very beginning, things started to go wrong.
Let's start with the weather.
I am so over this one.
I'm pretty much over this one.
And then, there was the instance of the blue rope.
With the light fading and time running out,
the breakaway broke.
Do we lose a cable?
Cable broke.
So apparently did the team.
So for all the other things
where we tow you something big
into something else and crash it,
we use a breakaway rope.
There is a standard one that we have been using,
which is a blue marine rope.
Grant is sitting there.
He is like, Tory gave me this piece of rope.
We always use blue rope, not this stuff.
On this particular one, Tory didn't want to use that.
He wanted to use this.
Grant says one thing.
Tory says another thing.
Moments before that, I showed him the rope.
He is like, yeah, that will work.
So I don't understand
what happened between that moment and that moment.
I think what we are going to do
is go back to what we used to use that was working.
Dude, we have never used the blue rope.
We always used the blue rope.
No, we haven't, not with a breakaway.
Yes, we do.
No, we don't.
So I think that the fun was when
we each have a different recollection of what happened.
All I know is to this day,
someone in the office would yell,
"We always use the blue rope."
15 miles per hour.
On day two,
with the blue rope controversy behind them,
the team tried again.
And again.
Well, it didn't bifurcate but it was still pretty cool.
But nothing could get the "mythity split" to split.
So what we decided to take the crane,
raise up the boat as high as it can go,
maybe like 90 feet and drop it nose first.
Go, go, go, go, go.
It smashed on to the tarmac.
We were like, yeah!
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.
We are in so much trouble.
We are kind of in trouble.
It was just all together a really disastrous experiment.
Next up, the mythbusters darkest hour.
You are pretty much bait.
And find out or splashtacular wet and wild.
Number One.
Coming in at number two,
our unforgettable encounters with nature's deadliest catch.
We have done so many shark myths,
it's absolutely impossible to pick one that's the all-time favorite.
Something just touched me!
So we're all gonna do this individually.
Yep, just when they thought
it was safe to go back in the water-
Oh, my lord!
It was like arrgh.
The mythbusters are reliving
their most memorable shark moments.
And to kick us off is Adam's favorite
straight from the shark's mouth.
This is my favorite thing we've ever made.
My favorite shark moment on the show
does not involve a real life shark.
It involves our robo shark.
That is so perfect.
That thing, that robot is not only
one of the most beautiful things we have ever built.
It's time to go swimming.
It's time for his first meal.
Both beautiful in its execution
and beautiful to watch it move in the water.
Go.
It's like the best toy ever.
But seriously, being in its jaws while it's thrashing me about
trying to poke its eyes out,
it really satisfies something inside of me
like this early seven-year-old Adam's desire to be in an action movie.
Adam's creature feature was impressive,
but Jamie's most memorable moment
was dicing with danger in a dingy.
The idea here was that a fish that had been wounded
would thrash around and attract the attention of sharks.
And so, of course, I decided to test this
by getting into an inflatable toy boat...
Okay, flapping fish.
and going out into the middle of a bunch of sharks
and slapping my oars
to see whether it attracted them more.
It did.
Of course, that made our dive master kind of nervous for some reason.
I don't know why.
But I was having a great old time.
There we go.
That's what I'm talking about.
It was one of those things that
you just don't see that every day,
at least not to live through it.
Stirring up a shark frenzy in an inflatable was crazy,
but for our intrepid trio,
one moment was so terrifying, that they all picked it.
Now we are testing the myth,
do flash lights attract sharks.
Now, obiviuosly, you can't test that in the daylight,
so we had to do night dives.
See you back on the surface.
Try not to get eaton.
Night diving alone is scary.
Night diving with sharks is terrifying.
During the day, it is fine.
I mean, you can see the sharks, they can see you.
But at night,
all bets are off.
It is a little scary down here.
You can't see anything down there.
They have all the advantages
and you, you are pretty much bait.
I have a lot of activity down here.
We were in the dark.
We were at depth.
Definitely this is quite and creeping me out.
We might as well been holding handfuls of chum.
Holy crap!
Pursue and circling.
They got so aggressive.
They actually came right into my face.
I had to push one away with the flash light.
Oh, my gosh.
All of the sudden,
the dive master gets this look in his face
and gives everybody the signals
to get back on the boat.
When he does that, your blood runs cold.
I was the last to get back on to the boat
and I was like, "What's going on?"
"Why are we getting on to the boat?"
He said, oh, yeah, tiger shark came around.
You know that chain meling you are wearing, wouldn't help.
Snaps your arm right off.
I got on the boat so fast
I think might have actually leapt out of
the water on to the boat.
There is no doubt that during all their encounters,
I guess they are hungry today.
these infamous fish have terrified our hosts.
Why the hell are we doing this?
But they have also come to respect them.
There is one more thing I got to say,
that is that we and a lot of other shows make a big drama
about sharks and how dangerous they are and everything.
But, the realility is that more
people die in their bathrooms by like
slipping and falling and hitting
their heads on the toilet or something than are killed by sharks.
Yet, we are killing sharks by the millions for stuff like
shark fin soup or some other stupid thing.
So let's stop doing that, okay?
sharks are really cool.
Folks, we are gonna need a
bigger boat, because this is our
wettest and wildest moment.
After the spills, chills, and thrills,
we're ending with an ingenious build.
it may be because Jamie is a
salty sea dog of salty sea dogs
and I love making anything I can.
We love making our own boats.
Hurry up, they are coming.
The escape boat was made out of raincoats and was inflatable.
The duct tape boat was made out of duct tape, of course.
The air cylinder speed boat was
made out of a speed boat that
was powered by air cylinders.
It didn't do anything really important,
but it was cool-looking.
but, shiver me timbers,
if this isn't the most novel boat build of all.
Drum roll, please.
The Pykrete boat.
Pykrete is something had been on Jamie's mental list
for years before we tested it.
And then we were asked to go back to
Alaska a second time to do
another Alaska special.
Then, Jamie mentioned the Pykrete boat
and it was one of those moments where we all realized instantly,
this is the myth we have to test.
This is Pykrete. Aircraft carriers.
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.
Sawdust and water,
but with a typically mythbusters twist.
We stumbled upon newspaper as
an ideal replacement for sawdust.
I love wet newspapers.
Especially for building a shell boat
like we finally built.
With the kids at Catch Can high taking care of the paperwork,
all Adam and Jamie had to do was craft the scoop of the century.
We are going to be layering in the newspapers,
layer overlayer like the shingles of a roof
where all the open sides point away from the direction of travel.
I feel like I'm working in a swamp.
After a back-breaking build,
the boat was put on ice.
It is an ice boat and it is a nice boat.
Get it?
Yeah, I got it.
The mythbusters were ready for launch
but would it sail or become yesterday's news?
You and I are pushing. Ready?
It is funny that Alcatraz and the pykrete boat
both have moments that are quite similar.
Look at that.
The very first time we placed each of those boats in the water,
we weren't sure whether there would be total failure
Go, Jamie.
You are the man, buddy.
Come on, baby.
or maybe it would last a little while.
Do you realize what this is?
A maiden voyage of yesterday's news.
Iced newspaper.
Let's go.
In neither case, did we expect the boat to be
as sea worthy as it turned out to be.
When I put that boat in the water,
I knew I had a choice.
I could either take it easy and try not to break the thing
or I could just gun it and see whether it worked.
I decided to do the latter,
because the clock was ticking.
And that thing was going to melt.
It was then or never.
I'm king of the world.
I really like this story,
because it exemplifies what I like to see
come out of mythbusters.
We have to keep it afloat.
That is that we start with a simple seed of an idea.
This might be good or maybe not
but eventually, we take it some place that it has never gone before
and in this case, we were able to make a frozen speed boat.
It actually worked.
I don't want to get all misty on you
but it is a pleasure building strange craft with you.