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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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captions paid for by discovery communications

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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