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Please don't try what you're
about to see at home.

[ Straining ]
We're what you call experts.

Yeah!
[ Exhales deeply ]

Narrator: On this episode
of "mythbusters"...

I'm king of the world!

We're diving into the depths...
Grant:
Holy crap!

We might as well have been
holding handfuls of chum.

Narrator: Shaping up
and shipping out....

Whoo!

Oh!

To get the inside scoop

on the myths
that are gung ho for h2o...

That made our dive master
kind of nervous for some reason.

I don't know why.

Narrator: As we count down

the top 12 wettest
and wildest moments

in "mythbusters'" history.

It is true that i wet myself

during the course
of testing that story.

It was disgusting.

Narrator:
Who are the mythbusters?

Adam savage...

Ooh!

And Jamie hyneman.

Almost too exciting.

Between them, more than 30 years
of special-effects experience.

Together with Grant imahara...

Aah!

Save yourselves.

Kari Byron...

I'm busting out of here, see?

Oops.
And Tory belleci.

Somebody order
some exploding pants?

They don't just tell the myths.

They put them to the test.

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for this "mythbusters:
Dirty dozen" special,

just add water.

[ Punch lands ]

[ Gurgling ]

What are we waiting for?

Just one moment.

Only one?

Okay, they're late,
so i guess I'll tell you.

We are counting down

the top 12 best
"mythbusters" moments

that involve... Water.

Water?
Water.

[ Quack! ]

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 "mythbusters"
watery escapades.

And a chance to see Jamie
swim in syrup again.

Precisely.

So, what's with the pool?

I kind of told Grant and Tory
we were having a pool party.

This is the pool party?

Lame.

Let's start the show.

Narrator: And first up
in the wet and wild ride...

We've sunk boats.

Whoo!

We've raised boats.

It worked! Whoo!

We've nearly drowned in cars.

But we should really kick this
off with "waterslide wipeout."

Adam: The myth is an online
video that a fan sent us

that shows some guys having
built a massive waterslide

on the side of this hill.

And this guy slides down it,
hits the edge of the ramp,

flies through the air

for this impossibly long
length of time,

and then lands safely

in this tiny, little swimming
pool like 100 feet away.

That was our task...
To test that.

Narrator: 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 this great?

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 trusswork

that will hold
the plywood together

for the actual ramp part,

while Jamie's up top
feeding this massive

hundreds-of-foot-long
piece of plywood

that he's screwing together
up top

and slowly rolling
down towards me.

It looks great.
[ Laughs ]

Jamie: You really don't get
the sense from a camera

how steep something is like
you do when you're really there.

And 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.

Narrator: Finally,
with the mega whoosh complete,

it was time
for its first human test.

I started from halfway
up the ramp,

figuring that would be safe,

and it actually was almost
the most dangerous thing we did

in the whole thing.

Jamie: He wasn't going
very fast,

and so he kind of dropped like
a stone right off the end of it.

Whoo!

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!

[ Laughs ]

Narrator: 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

'cause if you didn't do it
exactly right,

you weren't gonna get
enough speed,

and you wouldn't go far enough
off the end of the ramp.

Adam figured the best way
to do this

was to just dump a massive
bucketful of it onto the slide.

But after a face full of foam...

I couldn't see a thing.
I hit the ramp blind.

I figured we'd be better off
by putting it on with a sprayer.

Adam agreed that Jamie
had the lubrication sussed.

Aahhh!

Narrator:
But on day two,

it was accuracy,
not lubrication,

giving Adam a headache.

[ Camera shutter clicks ]
Whoa!

I landed wrong,
and when you land wrong

flying 70 feet through the air
into water,

you get an instant headache.

Whoa!

By the time of the third jump,

when we actually had our target
out, i was really cranky,

so our safety guy, stunt
coordinator Nick plasschaert,

comes up to the top of the ramp,
and he says to me,

"are you a stunt man, man?
It's not here, it's here.

"You do all the work
before you leave the ramp.

"The only thing
i want you thinking, man,

"when you hit that water is,

"'does my director, Alice,
want another take?'

you know how to do this.
I'll see you at the bottom."

And then he turned around

and went down
to the bottom of the ramp.

In three, two...

I was like,
"oh, my god, I'm in a movie.

I'm in a movie about a guy
about to do a key jump."

one.

The thing was,
his talk worked perfectly.

My third jump...

I landed perfectly,

50-degree angle,

feet in the center
of our target.

Didn't even disturb
the actual target.

Narrator:
It's the bull's-eye

that rocketed this incredible
wet-and-wild moment

into our countdown.

It couldn't have gone better.

Yeah!

And next,
it's an explosive boom and bust.

No "mythbusters" countdown
would ever be complete

without a blast.

And explosives and water
make one heck of a team.

Jamie: I don't get that excited
about using explosives

to just destroy things.
Wow!

I do find it really interesting

when you can use them
to do specific work.

And so that would mean
my favorite water explosion

would have to involve
safecracking.

The story here was
that you could open a safe

without destroying the contents

by filling it with water first.

Hose up.
Pull it up.

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!
Wow!

That worked beautifully!

I'd 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.

And we've never yet gotten
our steak dinner, frank!

Narrator:
But for the ultimate combination
of water and explosives,

it's over to Grant.

So, the black-powder
shark myth

comes from the movie
"deep blue sea,"

and in that, the hero
has to kill

this highly intelligent,
very deadly, very large shark.

And 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's connected
by a steel cable back to him,

which he then touches
to the ends of a battery,

and boom...

Yeah!

The shark blows up.

Narrator:
Yep, and first things first,

they needed a big fish to fry.

So Tory created Hugo,
the giant foam shark.

Tory:
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 "mythbusters,"

i was allowed to sculpt
this shark.

[ Camera shutter clicks ]
Whoo-whoo!

And it turned out better
than i thought it would.

Kari:
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.

He even named it.

He might even kind of
crossed the line a little bit.

Thatashark.

Narrator:
Finally, at the lake,

with Hugo ready
to become shark-foam soup,

the guys flared up their flares.

Grant: So, what we actually
found when we tested this

is when you set off that amount
of black powder underwater...

Ready to fire
in three, two, one.

Pretty much nothing happens.

[ Bang ]
It did no damage at all!

So we did what we usually do.

We call in our friend
frank Doyle.

And he brought 400 pounds
of explosives

to actually execute
the final experiment.

It's gonna be magnificent.

Narrator: Magnificent compared
to the previous damp squid.

[ Siren wails ]
Kari: We're waiting
for this explosion to go off.

We give it three, two, one.

Doyle: Fire!

And then nothing happens.

Oh, this is every bomb tech's
worst nightmare.

Oh, god!

All of us, i think,

were starting to get
a little heart flutter

'cause the bomb squad had to
take a boat all the way in

and find out what went wrong.

Tory: This is, like,
the worst experiment ever.

Imagine
trying 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's a badass.

Narrator: Indeed he is,

and after a gut-wrenching
40-minute wait,

with the charges reset...

Yeah!
This is it!

Fire in the hole!

It was time for take two.

[ Laughter ]

Three, two, one.

Ohh!

Whoo!

Tory: And there's
this huge tower of water.

It just shot into the air.

Pieces of Hugo everywhere.

We got down to the lake,

and it's just foam-rubber
shark pieces floating all over.

Aw, Hugo!

Why?!

Narrator: And for Tory,
although Hugo was "hugone,"

at least he'll always have
the high-speeds.

After the break,
swimming hyneman-style.

"Raise arms up. Lift out
of water. Put arms down.

And later, what will be the
wettest and wildest number one?

Drumroll, please.

There's water, water everywhere

because we're counting down

our most memorable myths
in the drink.

At number 10,
the guys slip into something

a little more uncomfortable.

[ Adam laughs ]

Adam: Obviously,
when you're tackling myths

that are wet or wild
or especially both,

it means that
you're gonna get wet.

And often when
you're gonna get wet...

Pah!

Unfortunately, it means
you're gonna get cold, too.

Yep, experimenting in water
can get very cold very fast.

[ Straining ]
Puppies! Puppies!

Kittens! Kittens!
Baby hippos! Babies!

But the most hypothermic myth
ever tested will surprise you.

Honestly, the coldest and
wettest i think we've ever been

has to be swimming in syrup.

The question here
was whether or not

you could swim faster in syrup
than you could in regular water.

Whoa! [ Gasps ]

The reason it was
so cold is twofold.

One, it was winter
in San Francisco,

which is not cold
by most people's standards,

but when you're swimming
in syrup,

it's pretty frickin' cold.

[ Starter pistol fires ]
The second reason

is because the syrup
is not something

you can simply dry
off of yourself.

You have to be rinsed off.

You have to be rinsed off
in water

that we could never get warmer
than slightly lukewarm.

Narrator:
It may have been freezing,

but what really warmed
the cockles of Adam's heart...

[ Starter pistol fires ]
Was Jamie's swimming.

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
plodding as a swimmer,

'cause i believe
he's actually doing this...

"raise arms up. Lift out
of water. Put arms down.

Swim forward. Raise arms up.
Lift out of water."

Like, he's like a robot

working through a set
of instructions.

Tory:
I was actually surprised

how difficult it was
for him to swim.

I thought he descended
from the great walrus tribe,

so i figured
he'd be a great swimmer.

[ Snorts ]

The great walrus tribe.

I'm gonna get killed
for that one.

[ Snort! ]

Narrator: Next up is a moment
all about dunking and diving.

Yah!

Our intrepid mythbusters

have gone undercover
underwater for many a myth.

It's party time.
[ Horn blows ]

Narrator: But when it comes
to strange suits

and underwater adventures,

the macabre maritime myth

of a diver sucked
into his diving helmet

takes the grisly prize.

[ Whirring ]

With kari on maternity leave...

Ew!

It was down to Tory
to create the diver.

Tory: I present to you
my creation... meat man!

[ Laughing maniacally ]

[ Gags ]

Oh, almost threw up.

Meat man was disgusting.

I mean, i had a love for him
because i built the guy,

but he was rotting pork meat.

At one point, i think the
refrigerator truck got shut off,

so it spent a night
unrefrigerated,

and the next day, it was just...

Oh, the rotting flesh
was unbearable.

How many mythbusters
does it take

to get meat man
in a diving suit?

Narrator:
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 their underwater camera
poised, Grant cut the cord.

Three, two, one.

[ Hisses ]

Tory:
One thing we didn't foresee...

The suit was filled with
the stench of rotting flesh,

and so when Grant
vented the suit,

all that air came rushing
into the boat with us.

I mean, it was nauseating.

Oh, look at what's happening
to his head!

And then at one moment,

everything just gets to the
point where it all goes "ppltt!"

[ Gurgling ]

Oh!

Holy crap!

Meat man is in the helmet!

And you see all of the guts
squashed up against the glass.

It was disgusting.

Yeah!
It worked!

[ Laughter ]

Narrator: It worked so well
that it's also a demonstration

of why you should never lend
the mythbusters anything.

Grant: We borrowed a set
of antique diving equipment.

His stomach
is inside his helmet.

We promised the guy.

We're like, "no,
it's totally gonna be fine.

It's gonna be great.
Don't worry about it."

[ Gurgling ]

The helmet was not
in returnable condition.

Narrator: Later...

It's a little scary down here.

But first...

"whaaa" like this.

And we're like,
"oh, my god!"

Narrator: Next
on the wet-and-wild splashdown

is a myth as cold as ice.

Oh! Oh!

Grant: So, the idea behind
the myth of blue ice

is that there's 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.

Aah!

How do you capture
the forming of blue ice

on the outside of a moving
airplane at altitude?

I mean, it's almost impossible.

Narrator: Impossible...

Unless you have an open
invitation to geektopia.

Grant:
The icing research tunnel is
a world-class research facility.

They test spacecraft, fighter
jets, commercial aircraft.

And here we come in
with our rinky-dink thing.

I'm the r2-d2?
Oh, boy.

But you know what?

What makes them great is
that they're 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"?

Narrator: However, getting
to the bottom of this myth

was not as quick
as you might think.

Grant: Fire it up.

All right, let's go.
Fire it up.

Maximum warp.

Oh.

Grant: 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
until 1:00 A.M. the next day.

So it turns out to be
a 17-hour day.

Narrator:
But those hours were well spent

because this myth
was looking plausible.

Look how quick the ice
is building up!

Tory:
The ice formed so perfectly

that all the NASA guys could not
believe how well it worked.

And they even told us...
They're like,

"we have had tests that have
been planned for years..."

It's approaching
soccer-ball size.

"and, like, you guys throw
this crazy thing together..."

Oh, we're getting bigger chunks
breaking off!

"come here, do the test,
and it works."

Oh! Oh!

I mean, they were just saying,

"sometimes it just shows you,
simple is better."

Narrator: Indeed,

as jumping out of a plane with
a block of simulated blue ice

turned out to be.

It stayed intact.

Narrator:
Just as the myth predicted.

Check it out.
It dug itself into the ground.

However, for those of you
watching the skies...

Kari: I really don't think
that the chances are high

it's going to happen.

The chain of events is a perfect
storm of circumstances.

I think it's gonna be
a pretty rare event,

but still possible.

Narrator:
And 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.

And steam has
absolutely given us

some of our most choice moments
on the show.

From the Archimedes Cannon...

Jamie: One.

Hey!

To exploding
fire extinguishers...

Whoa!

There's been a lot of hot and
steamy "mythbusters" moments.

You'd think, actually, that
a shoo-in for the best moment

would be
the water-heater rocket,

and there's a good reason
for that

because water heaters failing

is pure, unadulterated awesome.

[ Laughs ]

Narrator:
Unadulterated awesome

because you never know
when they'll blow.

Right when you kind of relax

and think everything's
gonna be okay,

that's when the vessel
decides to rupture.

Oh!

Narrator:
But surprisingly,

explosions pale in comparison

to the extreme steam power
of this.

Now, the steam-powered myth
that gets a nod from me

as my favorite has to be
steam machine gun.

This is a mythical machine

supposedly developed
during the American civil war

that was a steam-powered,
rotary machine gun

that centrifugally delivered
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.

[ Laughing ]

Oh, wow.
I can see where it hit.

Very pleased...
And terrified.

Jamie: The steam machine gun
was one of those devices

that was so over-the-top
and kind of out of control...

[ Ball bearing plinks ]

you might think
that it was too dangerous

to actually take on.

[ Scottish accent ] This one's
for distance and for glory!

[ Motor revs ]

Three, two, one.

[ Laughs ]

But, you know,
we'd done the math.

We'd 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's kind of messed up.

Narrator: Messed up,
but ultimately busted.

Jamie: Soldier.

[ Normal voice ]
Sir, yes, sir!

What do you think of
the steam machine gun
as a weapon of war?

Sir, it's not
very effective, sir!

Okay, let's get out of here.

Coming right up...

This kills you.

This kills you
and everyone else in the room.

Please do not try what you are
about to see at home.

We're what you call experts.

Can't you tell?

Narrator: We are halfway through
our splash-tacular countdown,

but there's plenty more myths
in the sea.

Br-r-row!

And now for a moment
in the swim.

Well, swimming pools

have often played
a key role in our myths.

They're perfect for us.

They're clear water.

Swim harder!

They're often quite accessible.

You can pull vehicles
right up to them.

But, honestly,
i pity our researchers

and the phone calls
they have to make.

They got to call people up
with a working swimming pool

that's in perfect
working order and say,

"hi, can we sink a car
in your swimming pool?

We promise
that it's mostly clean."

[ Pulsating tone ]
Hello? Hello?

I think the most impressive
things we've ever done in a pool

is bullets fired into water.

One.
[ Gun cocks ]

Jamie: The question
about bullets fired into water

was whether you could dive into
the water to protect yourself

from somebody
that was shooting at you.

Narrator: After testing
all the guns in their arsenal...

This is
the black-powder rifle.

Deer slug in the shotgun.

One...

This is the m1 garand,
.30 caliber.

[ Laughs ]

Narrator: It turned out
that a depth of 3 feet

would be safe for a swimmer.

There's your problem.

[ Both laugh ]

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 m1 garand.

Yeah.

This is the .50 caliber.

[ Laughs ]

This kills you.

This kills you
and everyone else in the room.

These are really powerful,
long-range weapons,

and they're just not made
to fire at things,

especially not a pool,
at close range.

So, i didn't know
what to expect.

Yeah, let's just be prepared

to pack and get out of here
really fast.

Hopefully we'll be gone
before the pool fully drains.

[ Laughs ]

Okay, eyes and ears.

This is the .50 caliber
at 10 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 is no bullet
in the ballistics gel.

Narrator: So, taking cover
underwater was confirmed.

It expended all 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 just unloaded
a full clip of bullets at him,

but for some reason,

the insurance company
didn't like that.

Narrator: And at number 5

is the most disturbing
wet-and-wild myth ever...

Kari: Ow.

Water torture.

Tory and Scott,
you're gonna make me cry today.

Okay, so 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 ourselves?

I imagine I'm gonna fall asleep
on this thing.

Oh!

Could you fall asleep?

Narrator: In the beginning,

testing this myth
seems straightforward

and pretty lighthearted,
considering the subject matter.

So, to test
Chinese water torture,

Adam was roped in,
and he served as a control,

which meant
that he wasn't restrained.

But he did have to hold
the same position

for a long period of time.

Adam: The fly is definitely
much worse than the water.

So he did what
any logical person would do.

He wore his adult diapers.

[ Laughs ] Oh.

Lest anyone forget, there is
no dignity on "mythbusters."

Yes, it is true
that i wet myself

during the course
of testing that story.

I was in the chair for so long,

and eventually, i could no
longer restrain my own bladder.

Yeah.

Adam: Oh, oh!
Oh, my god!

Oh, geez!

[ Kari laughs ]

Ugh!

Kari: We learned something
really interesting on the show,

which is that adult diapers,
they're not like baby diapers.

Adult diapers are for leakage,
not a full pee.

So, i guess that's something
to remember.

Narrator: Indeed.

And based on Adam's experience,

kari wasn't too concerned
when it came to her turn.

I can't even imagine
this being for real.

I'm around people
that I'm secure with,

that i totally trust,

and i know that are
gonna 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'd probably have bloody wrists
and ankles by now.

Narrator:
But as it turned out,

kari had seriously
underestimated

the power
of that slow and steady drip.

Scottie:
Are you getting upset

or do you feel
like you're gonna panic?

It's a dream.

Do you feel like you're gonna
fall apart and go to pieces?

I actually don't want to
do this test right now.

All right, let's get her out.

No, it's fine.
Just give me a second, okay?

Yeah, 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, you know, it's 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.

And i think i really wanted
to just 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.

I think you've proven yourself.

I think you probably
could stay here longer,

but I'm actually
gonna let you loose.

Okay.

Narrator:
One and a half hours later,

it was clear they needed
to not only end kari's ordeal,

but to stop this myth
altogether.

Tory: Normally,
when we're doing a myth,

you have to endure
a lot of pain...

[ Honk! ]

in order to gather enough data,

so that way, you can
either bust or confirm a myth.

But in that particular
situation,

it was so unbearable
that we had to call it.

We're often asked
to revisit myths,

do them a little differently.

I can guarantee you

i will never, never
do water torture again.

Narrator:
Next up in our "splash" -down,

we put the wild
into wet and wild.

And then i shot it.
[ Chuckles ]

[ Gunshot ]

Narrator: Next, we're taking a
walk on the wet and wild side...

[ Squeaking ]

from kissing dolphins...
That is so cool.

[ Chattering ]
Kari: Just a little clammy,
a little wet,

but, i mean,
you're making out with a fish.

What do you want?

Narrator:
To reanimating dead fish.

Jamie: Frankenfish was
pretty much like he sounds.

I mean, i took the fish,

and i brought it to life
using electricity.

It's alive!

And then i shot it.
[ Chuckles ]

[ Gunshot ]

Narrator: The mythbusters
have learned a lot

from their brushes
with aquatic life.

Ahh!

Kari: I did find out

that if you are holding on
to a penguin,

you have to wash your hands,
'cause you can get salmonella.

Narrator: But one experience
sticks in Adam's mind.

One of my personal favorites for
the best aquatic-animal myths

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.

[ Laughs ] Oh, wow.

Now, it turns out i...

And I've met several octopi
since then...

Have skin that octopi love.

Oh, that is so cool.

They love me.

Woman:
You must taste really good

'cause he's really
interested in you.

We got along really well.

Yeah, he's 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'll never forget that.

At number 3, it's all aboard
for some boat destruction.

Jamie: Where there's water,
there are boats.

And where there are mythbusters,
there's destruction.

Chest bump! Boom!
[ Laughs ]

So if you put the two together,
you've got boat destruction.

But one cursed craft
looms in their memories.

We have a lot of frustrating
moments on this show,

but one that sticks out
in my mind is bifurcated boat.

Grant: 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 the water.

But we couldn't because having
a powered boat on water

that would potentially sink

would create
an ecological hazard.

Are you trying to hold my hand?

No, I'm just trying
to hold on to something.

So, really, the best option that
we had was to do this on land.

Narrator: Testing this myth
out of the water

may have been good
for the environment,

but not for our mythbusters.

Kari: From the very beginning,
things started to go wrong.

Let's start with the weather.

[ Thunder crashes ]

I'm so over this one.
I'm pretty much over this one.

And then there was the incident
of the blue rope.

Narrator: With the light fading
and time running out...

Go.

The breakaway broke.

Did we lose the cable?

Grant: Cable broke.

[Bleep]

Narrator: And so, apparently,
did the team.

Grant: So, for all
the other things

where we tow something big
into something else

and it crashes,
we use a breakaway rope,

and there's a standard one
that we've been using,

which is a blue marine rope.

Grant's sitting there,
and he's like,

"yeah, Tory gave me
this piece of rope.

We always use blue rope,
not this stuff."

But on this particular one, Tory
really 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,

and he was like,
"yeah, that'll work."

So i don't understand
what happened

between that moment
and that moment.

I think what we're gonna do

is go back to what
we used to use that was working.

Dude, we never use
the blue rope.

We always use the blue rope!

No, we haven't.
Yes, we do!

Not for the breakaway.

Yes, we do!
No, we don't!

Kari:
I think that's the problem

is we each have a different
recollection of what happened.

All i know is to this day,

someone in the office will yell,
"we always use the blue rope!"

Grant:
15 miles per hour.

Yeah!

Narrator: On day two,

with the blue-rope controversy
behind them,

the team tried again.

[ Laughter ]

And again.

Oh!

Well, it didn't bifurcate,
but it was still pretty cool.

Narrator: But nothing could get
the mythity split to split.

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.

Go, go, go, go, go, go!

It smashed onto the tarmac.

We were like, "yeah!"

Whoo!

Oh!

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.

Kari:
We are in so much trouble.

Grant: Yeah,
we're kind of in trouble.

It was just altogether
a really disastrous experiment.

Narrator: Next up, the
mythbusters' darkest hour.

You're pretty much bait.

Narrator: And find out
our splash-tacular,

wet-and-wild number one.

Narrator:
Coming in at number 2,

our unforgettable encounters
with nature's deadliest catch.

Oh!

Adam: We've done
so many shark myths,

it is absolutely impossible

to pick one
that's the all-time favorite.

Help! Ohh!
Something just touched me!

So we're all gonna do this
individually.

Narrator: Yep, just when
they thought it was safe

to go back in the water...

Oh, my lord!

He was like, "argh!"

the mythbusters are reliving

their most memorable
shark moments.

And to kick us off
is Adam's favorite

straight from the shark's mouth.

[ Adam laughing ]

This is my new favorite thing
we ever made.

My favorite shark moment
on the show

does not involve
a real, live shark.

It involves a robo-shark.

[ Laughs ]

Dude, that's so perfect!

That thing, that robot,
is not only

one of the most beautiful things
we've ever built...

[ Laughs ]

It's time to go swimming.

It's time for its first meal.

Both beautiful in its execution

and beautiful to watch it move
in the water.

Go.

[ Laughs ]
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... it really satisfies
something inside of me,

like this early
7-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 dinghy.

Jamie: 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, flopping fish.

And going out into the middle
of a bunch of sharks

and slapping my oars to see
whether it attracted them more.

Come on!

Man:
Oh, there's a definite bite

attempted on the flopping fish.

Hey!

It did.

Yeah.

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.

Man: 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
and live through it.

Narrator:
Stirring up a shark frenzy
in an inflatable was crazy...

Oh!

But for our intrepid trio,

one moment was so terrifying,

they all picked it.

Tory:
Now we're testing the myth
do flashlights attract sharks?

Now, it's obvious
you can't test that in daylight,

so we had to do night dives.

See you back on the surface.

Try not to get eaten.

Tory: Now, night diving alone
is scary.

Night dives with sharks...
It's terrifying.

Grant:
During the day, it's fine.

I mean,
you could see the sharks.

They can see you.

But at night, all bets are off.

It's a little scary down here.

You can't see anything
down there.

They have all the advantages.

And you...
You're pretty much bait.

Kari: That's two sharks.
I see three sharks!

I got a lot
of activity down here.

We were in the dark.
We were at depth.

Definitely interested
in this light.

It's creeping me out.

We might as well have been
holding handfuls of chum.

Holy crap!

The sharks were just circling.

Whoa ho ho!

Tory:
They got so aggressive,

they actually came
right into my face.

I had to push one away
with the flashlight.

Oh!
Oh, my gosh!

Oh, my gosh.

All of a sudden, the dive master
gets this look in his face,

and he gives everybody the
signal to get back on the boat.

When he does that,
your blood runs cold.

Kari: I was the last
to get back onto the boat,

and i was like,
"what's going on?

Why are we getting
onto the boat?"

And he's like, "oh, yeah,
tiger shark came around,

so, you know, that chain mail
you're wearing wouldn't help.

Snaps your arm right off."

I got on the boat so fast

that i think i might have
actually leapt out of the water

onto the boat.

Narrator: There's no doubt that
during all their encounters...

Whoa! Whoa!
Guess they're hungry today.

These infamous fish
have terrified our hosts.

Tory: Why the hell
are we doing this?

But they've also come
to respect them.

Jamie: There's one more thing
i got to say,

and 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 reality is

that more people die
in their bathrooms

by, like, slipping and falling
and hitting themselves

on the head on the toilet
or something

than are killed by sharks,

and yet, we're 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're 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.

Adam:
Now, it may be because Jamie

is a salty sea dog
of salty sea dogs,

and i just like
making anything i can.

We love making our own boats.

Hurry up! Hurry up!
They're coming!

The Alcatraz escape boat

was made out of raincoats
and was inflatable.

The duct-tape boat was made
out of duct tape, of course.

Yeehaw!
[ Laughs ]

And the air-cylinder
speedboat

was made out of a speedboat that
was powered by air cylinders.

I mean, it didn't do anything
really important,

but it was cool-looking!

Narrator:
But shiver me timbers

if this isn't the most novel
boat build of all.

Drumroll, please.

The pykrete boat.

Pykrete is something that 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.

And 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, huh?

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.

Narrator:
Sawdust and water,

but with a typically
"mythbusters" twist.

We stumbled upon newspaper

as an ideal replacement
for sawdust...

I love wet newspaper.

Especially for building
a shell boat

like the one we finally built.

Narrator: 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.

We're going to be layering the
newspapers layer over layer,

like the shingles of a roof,

so that all the open sides
of the newspaper

point away
from the direction of travel.

Feel like I'm working
in a swamp.

After a backbreaking build,
the boat was put on ice.

It's a nice boat,
and it's an ice boat.

[ Laughs ]
Get it?

I got it.

Narrator: And the mythbusters
were ready for launch.

But would it sail
or become yesterday's news?

Bom, bom, bom!

Okay, you and i are pushing.

Ready?
Yep.

It's funny that Alcatraz
and the pykrete boat

both have moments
that are quite similar.

[ Laughs ]
Look at that!

The very first time we placed
each of those boats

in the water,

we weren't sure whether
there'd be total failure...

Go, Jamie.
It's all you, buddy.

You're the man, baby.

Come on, baby!

Oh, yeah!

Or maybe it would last
a little while.

Do you realize what this is?

The maiden voyage
of yesterday's news...

Ice and newspaper.
Let's go.

In neither case
did we expect the boat

to be as seaworthy
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.

Yeehaw!

I decided to do the latter
because the clock was ticking,

and that thing was gonna melt.

It was then or never.

I'm king of the world!

Oh!

Yeah!

I really liked this story
because it exemplifies

what i like to see
come out of mythbusters.

[ Scottish accent ]
We've got to keep her afloat!

Jamie: And that is
that if we start

with a simple seed of an idea...

It might be good, or maybe not,

but eventually we take it
someplace

that it's never gone before,

and in this case, we were able
to make a frozen speedboat,

and it actually worked.

I don't want to get
all misty on you,

but it's a pleasure building
strange crap with you.

[ Laughs ]

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