Sunken Sailboat Rises - Mythbusters - Science Documentary

[@christopherdean1326]

One of the most enjoyable myths ever busted, the balloon lifting the kid. Mostly for the presence of the adorable Scottie Chapman (we need more of these early episodes, (well I do!) and the differently adorable Maddie as the daring test pilot!

[@crwydryny]

I want more of kari with those claws

[@majortom4543]

Scotti was a drug addict and she and the producer were the one with the idea of shocking Adam with the Bibles ark, also she made Kari do it, to fool Adam and not doing it herself.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

"Adam needs a cookie" was apparently not meant as smack talk, just a statement of fact, according to Adam. He's said on his channel that he's quite prone to getting hangry and also tends to forget to eat when he's busy. Despite the editing, Jamie wasn't actually mocking him, just explaining he'd gone for a refuel. The producer who was keen on playing up the friction between them is also apparently the one who came up with and insisted on the build team doing the Ark of the Covenant prank (and was then removed from the show for it and other BTS behaviour).

[@raanthur3750]

I'm probably just ignorant but what does BTS stand for?

[@thomasjoychild4962]

@@raanthur3750 Behind The Scenes.

[@raanthur3750]

@@thomasjoychild4962 Got'cha. It was just me not knowing a term.

[@koentenvoorde4929]

What r u tryin to say

[@christianellegaard7120]

Yeah, they may get on each others' nerves. But they are never mean or disrespectful.

[@starhope9630]

As much as Adam and Jamie were a great team...I feel that Adam was the life of the show!😊

[@nickyoung9108]

Maddie must be a young lady of 20+ by now. She'll, probably forever, be the only person to own the beautiful memory and bragging rights of literally flying by party balloons.

[@raanthur3750]

Depending on when this was shot, she would be 24-25. They state in the episode that she is 4 years old and the episode was released late 2004.

[@PanthereaLeonis]

@@raanthur3750 The party store has "class of 2004" stuff, so I'm imagining spring/summer '04 is when they were recording it.

[@raanthur3750]

@@PanthereaLeonis So yeah, most likely 24.

[@BlitzMekanika]

On a tested Q and A Andam said they’re biggest environmental problem they had was the sea otters stealing ping pong balls. 😅

[@thomasjoychild4962]

Far more devious than sharks!

[@crwydryny]

Kari with those claws and that gleeful expression just does something for me 😊😊😊

[@Wings_of_foam]

Yes, she turns on your inner simp. Don't fall for her fake sweet personality. Without her looks, you wouldn't feel the way you do about her. But she knows exactly what she's doing.

[@MichaelGottloib]

@@Wings_of_foam who hurt you

[@Kwauhn.]

@@Wings_of_foam A real life incel. Fascinating.

[@SenMysrana]

"'Sea lion infestation' is a funny way of putting it-" *sees **26:53* "Okay, fair enough."

[@TheHutchy01]

40 Sea Lions couldn't do it, but one Walrus could.

[@Oroberus]

As it came up again, my take regarding the suction myth of the Titanic is, it's not actual suction from the ship sinking 'pulling' you with it but instead it's the constant break of medium you are in with such big ships that is dangerous. If you're in water, you can swim, if you are in water that is bubbled up, swimming gets harder and if you happen to swim while a bigger air bubble rises beneath you, it totally breaks the medium, you can't swim anymore for a moment and at the moment you regain the medium around you and therefor could swim again, it encompasses you and leads to breathing water. Testing this might be pretty impossible though as this would only be prevalent with very big ships, like the titanic, that can keep lots and lots and lots of air bubbles inside its structure while still sinking and only releases those bubbles afterwards.

[@swapnilmankame]

But they already did the swimming in bubbling water myth? Google "Can You Swim in Bubbly Water? - MythBusters - S07 EP02" and it was a lot of bubbles on a large scale

[@gbulmer]

Reinforcing @swapnilmankame comment. They tested the myth that it's not possible to swim in 'bubbly water'. The effect they detected was *_not_* sinking in lower density 'bubbly water' water, but instead the 'bubbly water' created an upwelling which pushed the swimmer out to be dragged down by the balancing downward current. They built a large 'bubbler' and put it onto the bottom of a swimming pool, then ran it for as long as needed. It is dangerous, but not for the reasons claimed by the myth. Best Wishes. ☮ Episode _Can You Swim in Bubbly Water? - Mythbusters - S07 EP02 - Science Documentary_ kzbin.info/www/bejne/boCYpoNsq9mnmMk or _Can Bubbles Sink a Swimmer? - MythBusters: There's Your Problem_ kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6S4qpiPr9KCn6c for the analysis.

[@SolitairexGaming]

3:45 that spin around 😬

[@PaulThatcher-iu5in]

I noted it,too,and I have to say, after A's tone, I was kinda hoping J would not only turn,but come back, and...

[@jeremymcadam7400]

​@@PaulThatcher-iu5in the UFC should put these two on

[@einarbk885]

i thought you ment Kari`s ass

[@squiglydx7763]

Yep, i legit got worried for a Second, but also how inflammatory was Jamie's Tone when he talked to Adam before that lol

[@TheHutchy01]

Jamie really would have fit right in, in an Old West saloon.

[@ugochukwuonweluzo1584]

Love these videos... Keep bring them in

[@tanglewife]

This was the first Mythbusters episode I ever saw... :)

[@kyuofcosmic]

Jaime really did look like an otter, hahah

[@lloydsumpter7735]

So... what became of the Jalepeno/Mythtanic II? It actually looked like a pretty nice sailboat, at least until the Mythbusters got ahold of it...

[@lucromel]

They didn't consider the displacement of the boat when calculating how many ping pong balls would be needed. Even though it's filled with water, the hull has a thickness and thus displaces some water.

[@gbulmer]

I think you're very close. However, it isn't the hull's thickness which matters. It depends on the density of the materials used to make the boat. They don't need enough buoyancy to lift it's on-land-weight. If the boat was made completely of expanded polystyrene (less dense than water) a 3000 pound block wouldn't need any ping pong ball buoyancy because it wouldn't sink. They only need enough buoyancy to overcome the *_difference_* between the 'average' density of the boat's materials and the density of water. For example, to your point, steel is roughly 8x denser than water, so if the hull were steel, it'd only need 7x its weight in ping pong ball buoyancy to float it. However, some parts of their boat are made with materials which already float in water, like wood and marine-grade expanded foam. So they don't need any ping pong balls. They'll make a big difference. When I was a kid, my uncle had a small sailing dinghy. Parts of it were filled with expanded urethane or polyurethane foam (it's closed cell, so it doesn't soak up water, and always stays less dense than water). On land it weighed about 150-200 pounds. On water it was unsinkable, even full of water. Best Wishes. ☮

[@lucromel]

@@gbulmer Yep, that is the point I was getting at, but didn't explain in a s much detail.

[@gbulmer]

@@lucromel Thank you for replying. I was pretty sure you were on the right track, but hoped an alternative explanation might help. It's for Mythbusters, so no harm in 'over explaining'. Best Wishes. ☮

[@mellchiril]

I like to think that this episode was the inspiration for the movie Up!

[@octooddments5486]

If I had a nickel for all the myths that originated from Mr Bean skits, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much but it's weird that it happened twice.

[@somedude3443]

3:38 Adam and Jamie's working relationship in a nutshell Jamie: "Yeah, that's great, Adam 😒 Let me know when it gets working" Adam: "%¥

[@Bibs92]

I had no idea that Adam could ever become this grumpy or bad-mooded, so that he would even curse towards a longtime working partner! 😧

[@sebastiank1714]

3:10 Fill it with Buck-Shot, he said, then proceeds to use Bird-shot.

[@JonatasAdoM]

I'm sure people mix it with duckshot.

[@sebastiank1714]

-@@JonatasAdoM --> _Sure you must be joking, but I'll answer anyway and ask in good faith:_ You know ducks are birds? In fact, duck hunt and clay pigeon shooting is what most bird-shot is used for.

[@q.e.d.9112]

Fun(?) fact. 8:27 It’s not that a sinking ship “sucks” you down, it’s that if there is enough air escaping from the ship, the water becomes aerated and no longer has the density to float you. So you fall into this low density hole and may not get out until you’re too deep to get back up alive. Heavily aerated water cannot support you. The bottom of waterfalls and weirs (even quite low ones) are places to avoid. A life jacket won’t be much help until you can escape back into solid water.

[@jacobsan]

They tested that too

[@Kwauhn.]

I'm pretty sure the danger of weirs is a separate phenomenon called the "drowning machine". The downward flow of the water shoots underneath the surface after the weir and creates an underwater vortex parallel to it all along its length. Swimmers can become trapped in the vortex if they get too close.

[@gbulmer]

To clarify @jacobsan comment. They tested the myth that it's not possible to swim in 'bubbly water'. The effect they detected was _not_ sinking in lower density water, but instead the 'bubbly water' created a an upwelling which pushed the swimmer out to be dragged down by the balancing downward current. Best Wishes. ☮ Episode _Can You Swim in Bubbly Water? - Mythbusters - S07 EP02 - Science Documentary_ kzbin.info/www/bejne/boCYpoNsq9mnmMk or _Can Bubbles Sink a Swimmer? - MythBusters: There's Your Problem_ kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6S4qpiPr9KCn6c for the analysis.

[@Daddy_Dagoth]

What am i? Chopped liver? 😂

[@JonatasAdoM]

I have no glue why my brain kept thinking they were golf balls rather than ping pong balls.

[@fishingfan1500]

I love these

[@arrowghost]

Mr. Bean's baby stroller balloons at the amusement park followed by the Up House, totally busted indeed.

[@majortom4543]

im not going to lie i still dont understand why the pingpong balls go to the bottom of the ocean my logic says they would stay buoyant at the water level of the ocean.

[@kitsune0012]

Basically water flows down faster than balls float.

[@borntoclimb7116]

They need more than 2000 balloons. Anyone remember the more than 1.5 million balloons from the failed Cleveland record.

[@_J.F_]

How Jamie managed to work with Adam for all those years is still an unsolved mystery. Personally I don't think I would have managed a single day.

[@matoatlantis]

What is funny to me is that when I was watching these episodes as they aired Adam was my favorite. In this episode Adam is actually younger than I am now (damn). Here I like Jamie more. Not to say that I don't like both, it's just weird to see that my preference shifted a bit. I do watch Adam on his own YT channel and I like it. But here it seems "he's too much" for me.

[@Leepheon]

I think they both struggled with one another. They are just too different. Adam always bubbly, full of crazy ideas and jamie very practical and reserved. Its clear why they didnt stay friends. Yet you still see that they worked together professionally. Jamie knew that adam gets cranky when he has low blood pressure, laughed it off and continued. Also i think on TV its always kind of dramatized for the views.

[@garrett2439]

Imagine identifying more with Jamie than Adam. You might as well just admit you're a miserly antisocial weirdo douchebag.

[@borntoclimb7116]

Jamie looks like a german guy working with an american kid

[@notapplicable531]

I'm left wondering how much of the friction between them is natural or just scripted to be that way. If it were real, I'd be out the door that first day.

[@JonatasAdoM]

"Converting to metric [...] One pound."

[@flashbond]

Adam has a better craftsmanship but jamie has better understanding of physics

[@DDT-For-Human]

on the other hand, u can just build a boat out of ping pong ball at that point🤣

[@borntoclimb7116]

True, lot of pingpong balls protect you from a leak.

[@GuSuarez]

So Adam and Jamie got to enjoy the 2 best days in a boat owners life "the day you buy it and the day you sink it"... That is the saying right!?

[@Lampe2020]

46:41 That's because water is heavier than air, so one pound in the air is a lot less than a pound underwater.

[@PileOfEmptyTapes]

Kind of. The key factor is _displacement_ - in order to raise the boat, you only need to make up for the difference in weight between the structure and the amount of water it displaces, plus a bit. Fiberglass only has about 2.5times the density of water so would be a fair bit lighter under water for starters, and wood is little more than the density of water or even less so it may even be naturally buoyant = effectively negative weight. So even if the boat was all fiberglass (worst-case), actual required lift would only be about 60% of what they estimated. It is a bit baffling that the Mythbusters would have totally forgotten about old Archimedes in this scenario. Fun fact: Ping-pong balls are made of oldschool nitrocellulose to this day, hence why they are easily flammable.

[@gbulmer]

@@PileOfEmptyTapes Plus, sailing boats often/usually have closed cell urethane or polyurethane foam filling cavities to give them extra buoyancy if they take on water. My uncle had a small sailing dinghy which was unsinkable. The Mythbusters weren't good at science. They seems to have a crane attached to the boat to recover it if things went wrong. Presumably it had a way to measure weight. So, it appears they could have weighed the sunken boat using that. Best Wishes. ☮

[@uriituw]

They did the most bizarre things on this show.

[@touchm3]

Their disagreements are what's missing in the later seasons which make the show so much better and real

[@Shakes-Off-Fear]

I’d disagree. I’d rather see them working together than fighting. They were obviously trying to capitalise on the ‘conflict drama’ of reality shows like American Chopper.

[@crwydryny]

The arguments were apparently staged by the producers to "add drama" you get it in reality TV where they cut footage to make it look like there's more tension than there is

[@garrett2439]

@@crwydryny That's not even remotely true lol. Have you never watched Tested before?

[@uriituw]

Who wants that?

[@uriituw]

The great thing about the show was the myth testing, not the drama.

[@chrisg3258]

I always used to wonder about the "tension" between Adam and Jamey, and figured it was probably more likely Jamey that was the problem. But the more I watch these episodes I realise its Adam who is just a big annoying child. I couldn't have worked with him for long. 🙄

[@georgesos]

He is an annoying dick..

[@ktktktktktktkt]

1:17 More like (Adam) Ping Pong Ball Savage amirite?

[@Wings_of_foam]

5:00 300 balls??

[@ThedownwardS]

49:02: 2 of the four names quit mythbuster (before season 5)

[@niels1917]

IS THERE 1 THING THAT SCOTTY CANT DO?

[@kitchenerleslie6177]

The humans infested the seals' habitat. Don't get it twisted.

[@tristindurocher-batley4780]

To any Pokémon fans watching please tell me that Quaxly line reminds people of Donald Duck because even though quaquaval is the only one who doesn’t give off those vibes my nickname for quaxly’s evolution line is Donald Q. Duck since the Q stands for whatever line it’s on

[@JanKowalskiiiii]

Back then, no one had probably even heard of microplastics.

[@dunhillsupramk3]

most scientist today don't know of the existence of microplastics in the ocean, well not to a level to be concerned with... you have to remember most of these information was sponsored and grossly exaggerated by environmental charities and as of 2020 more and more of them has been exposed as frauds, fronts for money laundering and even human trafficking.. the most infamous example would be the ocean charity that Epstein and Maxwell started, they was the ones that exaggerated about microplastics and even fooled the UN... i shouldn't have to tell you but nothing they said was the truth...

[@disneybuyseverything9010]

We have already seen the longer version of these myths.And now they are just sure put together 9n shorter form

[@N13J]

A lot of filler and endless amount of commercials in between make the show felt like 2 hours long back then.

[@gatovillano7009]

At 3:45, he is working way too hard. All he had to do is measure the radius of the pingpong ball. Then he will be able to measure the volume of the ball. this will tell him the volume of the water that is displaced, in mL. Each mL is equal to a gram to calculate the force of buoyancy. The maths are very simple then: if he knows the weight of the boat, all he needs is a greater weight pushing upwards. And that's how he knows how many balls he needs. This whole episode would be done in 15 minutes of Adam doing maths

[@gbulmer]

I agree Adam could have worked the buoyancy of a ping pong ball more easily. However, you are incorrect to claim _"if he knows the weight of the boat, all he needs is a greater weight pushing upwards"_ That _significantly _*_overestimates_* the number of ping pong balls needed. The weight of the sunk boat is less than it's weight on land. It's 'average' density matters. They only need enough buoyancy to overcome the _difference_ between the boats 'average' density and the density of water. Imagine the boat was 3,000 pounds of expanded polystyrene, it wouldn't need ping pong balls because it wouldn't sink, Some parts of the boat are less dense than water, eg wood. It likely has marine-grade closed cell urethane or polyurethane expanded foam filling parts of it for improved buoyancy and hence a safety margin. So the few minutes he wasted calculating the buoyancy of a ping pong ball are likely dwarfed by the time and effort to acquire, load, unload, and unpack 2x more ping pong balls than needed. Worse, they had a crane which appears to be attached to the boat so they could recover it if things went wrong. Presumably the crane had a way to estimate weight. So they could have measured the boat's weight when it was submerged. Best Wishes. ☮

[@andrewschaeffer8147]

“Myth confirmed. Lift a kid with balloons.” ???? Did you even watch the episode. They had to use thousands of balloons, more than anybody would have in their inventory

[@gbulmer]

Did *_you_* watch the episode? At 34:41 the narrator says it takes too many party balloons, then Scottie says they've "popped that myth", then Tory says, "Busted. There is no way a circus would have this many balloons in one bunch". At 35:26 Maddie dances on the "Busted" sign. Best Wishes. ☮

[@TheAslakVind]

Several US Navy Seals progressed to be dive masters..

[@benjamindeh873]

Adam is a better entertainer. But Jamie is a better scientist. Could just be the more years of experience he has, but I must say I also sometimes see Adam as trying to win against Jamie, like, trying to prove he is as worth for the show as Adam is....and unnecessarily so. I think he had an ego problem.

[@tonydejesus2134]

I know we only get Adam’s side of the story, but this episode gives me an idea of why he disliked Jamie. He’s brilliant, but kind of obnoxious.

[@Leepheon]

Did Adam ever say that he dislikes jamie? I just remembered that Adam once told on his youtube channel that the producers actively tried to stir up drama betwee these two... They are very different, working wise and personality wise, so its no wonder they didnt always get along. Also i think that jamie isnt really obnoxious. I mean i can see how it can come off like that but i dont think its because he wants to be better than adam or something. He is very practical and knows his stuff. Adam tends to do the crazier ideas that oftentimes end up not working well or at all. Doesnt mean that adams ideas are bad but they arent useful for the result they want.

[@garrett2439]

I like the moment in a different episode where Jamie berates one of the myth-terns about damaging the thread on a screw and she sarcastically shot back that she'd give him the $1.50 later. Then he berates her some more for failing at a task due to being "inexperienced" according to him, and then he proceeds to also fail at that same task, and does not apologise to the myth-tern for berating her and essentially calling her incompetent. What a cheap, obnoxious asshat.

[@tonydejesus2134]

@@Leepheon yes, he has said on multiple occasions that he and Jamie dislike each other, both on the show and on his Tested channel. He goes into detail, and I see a bit of what he described in this episode.

[@beefox__]

@@tonydejesus2134 he doesn't dislike jamie, he said that their personalities just clash. he respects his work and stuff, on screen they work well as funny guy straight man combo, but adam works in a very chaotic way and jamie in a very ordered way, and that clashes

[@tonydejesus2134]

@@beefox__ he literally said it in an episode: “watch while two guys who dislike each other test some myths together.” I knew they disliked each other, but I was surprised to see it actually stated in an episode.

[@roryoutdoors5431]

Mythtanic 2 was full of water right? And they sealed her up tight… so how was the ping pong ball flow displacing the water inside the vessel? Out the one hatch in the top?

[@georgesos]

They didn't need to have I airtight. The air inside the balls is secured.

[@gbulmer]

They didn't _"seal Mythtanic 2 up tight"_ We can clearly see them swimming inside the boat, and the ping pong hose is just wafting around in a compartment. The ping pong hose is clearly not sealed into any compartment. We can see, nothing prevented the ping pong balls displacing water. Water is free to leave through the doorways between compartments. Best Wishes. ☮

[@uriituw]

🤘

[@danielmadar9938]

😂❤😂❤

[@gravity00x]

telling jamie to ff off and calling him a behindhole for no reason. damn. young adam was quite disrespectful. no wonder jamie doesnt like him. nobody probably did.

[@gravity00x]

why do you spoil the entire episode before people even start watching it??? do amateur youtube people read cinematography 101? dont spoil the ending. even kids know that fact

[@crwydryny]

Tell that to Hollywood that spoils the twists and endings in their trailers

[@Leepheon]

you need a cookie

[@allanshpeley4284]

@@Leepheon And a timeout.

[@gravity00x]

@@Leepheon sugar free. thanks

[@gravity00x]

@@allanshpeley4284 ok internet officer dookieshoes

[@davorsedmak8763]

They end up in ocean somewher for turtels to eat them and die 🎉🎉🎉