Shocking Bath Appliance Dangers - Mythbusters - Science Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Mythbusters - S02 E06
In this episode of Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie dive into deadly myths: can quicksand really suck you under, and will a bath-time appliance electrocute you? Plus, what happens when tattoos and MRI machines mix? Find out as we test these myths!
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Love the episodes where Jamie and Adam are openly disliking each other… yet getting along just fine and creating golden television moments
Apparently the Top Gear guys agree
They have completely different approaches to solving problems. Adam likes to do the get it done sooner now approach. Which can lead to problems. Such as the last time he tried the full body ballistic gel casting and had nothing but leaks. Jamie is methodical and elegant in his problem solving and is patient. Friction is naturally going to happen.
This is from the early seasons where there was an associate producer from Discovery who was always trying to cause friction between Adam and Jamie for "drama." This was the same producer who forced the build team to hook up the electric fence transformer to the Baghdad "idol" that shocked Adam. They were fired not longer after from Discovery/MythBusters
@@Bartman954I think adam said that the firing "myth" wasn't true on his channel, as in it didn't go down like that
No! Love is NOT an imperative. I will never love your shit. On the contrary.
45:34 The grin on Jamie's face. LOL.
47:00 "Drown you Basterd!" lmao
19:20 jamie’s little dancey dance is so cute🤭
Don’t know why, but Jaime dual wielding electric drills is hilarious
Mad scientist/evil genius Jamie.
The Jamie that in a different timeline became a supervillain and conquered the world.
Especially after getting pissed at Christine lol “slow down and think”
Is it just me or does Jamie come off less restraint in the earlier stuff rather than the later?
The original producer was trying to start shit up the first couple of seasons, hoping to get American Chopper style fights. Adam and Jamie got tired of that and he got fired.
It's a new job for him and Adam at this time in the series, so they're still getting settled into their roles. Adam has always stated that him and Jamie never really got along, but guess as they continued to work together, they found a way to make it work.
Additionally, Adam is some years younger, had been introduced to the film industry by and had i believe previously been employed by Jamie.
So there is i expect a level of Jamie getting used to Adam as an equal coworker rather than his junior or employee in the early seasons.
Plus Adam was noticeably more of a disagreeable ass in the first couple seasons. I imagine that wore down Jamie's patience pretty quickly. The "we're not friends" thing Adam loves to say really means, "Jamie doesn't like me and that makes me sad so I'm going to say I don't like him either".
Adam being the one double checking for safety and Jamie being the evil scientist is truly something else.
But once they start to get used to the work partnership and are more of a team.
30:20 Adam's "Stunt Butt" shirt. 😂
Claude François, a singer who was very famous in France in the 60's and 70's was in his bathtub and he noticed that a lamp on the wall wasn't 100% horizontal. A wire was touching the metal cover of the lamp and when he touched it to straighten it, he was electrocuted.
This isn't the same as dropping a lamp or some other electric device in the water but when I think of a bathtub and electricity, I immediately think of him.
A lamp not 100% horizontal, thats just the way the France work.😂
22:17 I don't quite know why, but this is one of my favorite Mythbusters bits of fooling around 😅
Love the early mythbusters episodes
11:46 DAMN Jamie thats hash lmao
In Canada the wall plugs in bathrooms are all GFCI or ground fault circuit interrupt protected.
Here in europe, the whole house has them
@@DANGERTIM112 in Canada the rest of the house is ark fault only. GFCI seems a bit of overkill to me.
@@justhefacts8358that depends on wether your kid has something poked in a socket.
@@kungfudavie actually not really, ark fault circuit breakers are more than adequate to handle that situation, unless maybe your house was flooded and they were sitting in a puddle of water.
@@kungfudavie not to mention all new plugs installed in the last 10 year are child proof (google Canadian electrical plug/ child proof if you want to know how they work).
22:55 funny misnomer for Adam's Spanish: "hierro" (with an H, not an F) stands for "iron" as in the metal, the element. For the appliance, Spanish for iron is "plancha"
5:20 you know they hired an older audio tech for the show when he didn't notice the mic issue 😂
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
Nah. I could hear that, and I can't hear mosquitoes any more.
lmao good catch
I'm not a child anymore but even I could hear that. But then, I also hear that one of my monitors beeps.
I read a police report in one in the old pre-internet freakazoid magazines 'Research' about a poor lady who dropped a hairdryer in the tub, the current wasn't high enough to break the circuit
she was boiled & it wasn't until the tub went dry & a fire started in the rendered fat raising the alarm. The kicker was the earthing current between a corroded plug fixture to ground through old steel plumbing showed that the shock wasn't determined to be lethal & there were indications of a struggle to get out of the bath.
That's a cool illustration encyclopedia that Adam picked up.
Patron saint of balistics gel? Uh, Saint Barbara is the Patron Saint of artillerymen, explosives and lightening. I believe it would fall under her portfolio.
i learned something new today thanks man
Ballistics gel has nothing to do with actual explosives or artillery. Its very firm Jello.
@Damaged7 I'll notify the pope.
Love that they were there to buy old electronics but Adam must have seen a nice old saw and had to have that too
Both amperage and voltage can kill a person. It's the combination of two that creates the amount of Joule that kills
You’re correct. Although the body can withstand significantly less amperage than voltage. Amperage is the volume of electron flow, voltage is merely pressure
It is true that you can't drown in quicksand but you can sink up to a point where the sand puts pressure on your chest and you can't breathe. This is also what happens if you get caught in a grain silo, it isn't drowning, you just get crushed. Also, adding salt and clay to the quicksand gives it more suction. So quicksand is no joke and always take note of warnings around it
11:47 fucking brutal 😂
I've been over floodplains before. The ground can go from a wet beach to pudding to pancake batter. Easy to sink into the softer parts. But also easy to get out by just spreading out your bodyweight.
It would be interesting if it was a mixture of clay and sand. I was in a factory which extracted gems from a sand, there were pools with different types of sand or a mixtures with more particle sizes and it was kinda dangerous, mostly the top layer floated on top while under was water and it looked like solid surface. But they were almost dried up so not that dangerous in the end but I can imagine how bad it could be with enough water.
47:41....that's was funny as hell 🤣🤣
16:20 "without a doubt I think we've got this"
I was a member of a 'Sons of the Desert' Tent: whose 'Chair' killed himself by dropping an electric fire in his own bath.
I'd liked to have seen the TV go in the bath. 😄
As an Electrical Engineer, I don't understand why current would prefer to go to the ground via the water/body rather than straight to the neutral wire a few millimeters away? And a PROPER GFCI measures the difference between currents in the hot and neutral. If the current's not going back through the neutral, it's going somewhere it shouldn't. HOWEVER some "GFCI"s merely measure any current in the ground wire. I suspect the hair-dryer one does this.
I don't understand it too. I also used 1~ (230V, angle grinder in a flooded kitchen to make a drainhole) and 3~(400V, open CrNi Wire to heat the pool) devices under water. You've to be very unlucky to get electrocuted in the tub - actually by picking the stuff up and lift it out of the water.
Hey! Finally something good about Americans. Thank God, you all don't have some medieval units for electricity! No Horselegs for Volts, no Pigtails for Amps. Thank you very very much. Those oldfashioned Fahrenheims always get me angry while converting. That zero in frozen sea water and that 100 when your fever is gone, why?! So, Volts and Amps! Yes!
You can be glad there is no Imperial and American Fahrenheit, like with gallons or the ridiculous gauge tables. A Neanderthal's foot is 12 Neanderthal's thumbs and those are 25.4mm on both sides of the pond.
I like measuring electricity in burgers per hour like our founding fathers intended! God bless America!
@@thomasmore260 Yes, but DUMP them. Europe did that around a hundred years ago. It is ridiculous half the world is STILL using that shit. It only gets things complicated. You get errors expecting certain units. Even in space industry there are extremely expensive errors made. So stop it! And this time USA is the problem. Got that?
Tory is willing to risk it all 35:01 😅
Can someone explain why they grounded the drain? Are bathtub drains normally grounded? What about bathtub drains that have plastic pvc drains? Did they just ground the drain so they could measure the electricity? Or, if a bathtub wasn't grounded, does that mean there would be no electric shock occurring? In other words..if it's not grounded would there be a shock? And if it needs to be grounded for there to be a shock, then why not just "not" ground it? Or if the grounding is there to prevent shock, then the person shouldn't get shocked, right? I'm forgetting my electrical theory...
Because they're not normally grounded, meaning noting happens by definition.
Really shocking. 😮
It just took me 2.5 days to fill my pool with garden hose 😂😂
Oh They Love each other😂😂😂
I can't believe they allowed that fluid anywhere near that MRI.
20:29 - We have all made that mistake lol... if only someone would give us a penny everytime we had the multimeter on volts instead of amps n vice versa 😂
haha those early mythbuster episodes... no harness; taking risk on MRI ... later they learned to be more careful
7:42 lines like this hit diffrent knowing jamie didnt like adam
adam didnt seem to like that comment (im guessing by the way he looked away )
They didn't get along personally, but that got better in later seasons.
Also don't forget that both don't have a filter and Adam was Jamies apprentice in the 90s, they knew each other before the show.
quiksand is not allways "Sand" its usualy soil a mix of sand and Clay indifferent proport yes
I don't even need to watch this. In Europe, a central RCD/GFCI protecting EVERY circuit is required since the 70s, with retrofitting required since the 80s. No electrocution risk here.
Just because it's "required", don't ever think for a second that it means every single house has it.
Europe may be a little larger than you thought. :)
@@jg97873 yup. I rented a house once with a non isolation living room style light in the bathroom, plus the shower rail was hung from the light fitting with a coat hanger lol
Ye but lots of houses here in Europe have it end is easy to check just go to the power breaker of your house end you will see a yellow button whit a T on it press it end it will cut the power if it doesn't that means that it is broken end you have to fix it @@jg97873
I love when someone says "in Europe" as if the whole continent is one country.
The words "bath" and "appliance" should NEVER be used together, whoever came up with them is a lunatic.
Someone probably mentioned it already, but the song you hear in the radio ( electric bath test), I am 99.99% sure its a mexican song. Its awful; here is some of the lyrics:
"Acércate más a mí, y dame un beso de amor; quiero sellar nuestro cariño llevando tu sabor"; which using Pythagoras roughly translates to:
"Get closer to me, and give a love kiss; I want to seal our affection carrying your flavor".
And this is why innthe UK we don't have plugs in our bathrooms, because our electricity is twice what the US uses (240v 32amp)
Yeah, the whole europe has 230V and yet you are almost the only country, that has no plugs in the bathroom. And don't even get me started on your stupid string light switches in the bathroom. I was so mad every time i came to the UK and there was no plug in the bathroom to charge my electric toothbrush or to plug my hairdryer into. Just shaver plugs, that no one really ever use...
@@jakublehky4256 The reason for the string light switch, is because it's less dangerous to use with wet fingers than a wall switch.
@@ZondaFRoadster You normally touch your light switches with wet hands? Generally when people use the bathroom and it involves water, they come out dry.
Bath salts would make it much worse, of course.
47:01 Feel the love for Adam from Jamie.
11:29 What type of lathe is that? 30K? Wow.
11:09 Jamie ripping a new one in Christine. Without raising his voice or use hard words, yes. But ripping her a new one nevertheless
Yes, not his finest hour. If an untrained employee screws up it's your own fault.
@@robmooijaart5313Jamie agrees with you 1 minute later 12:08
@@robmooijaart5313 Did your mom raise you?
@@Wings_of_foam sad little man
She didn't last long. They hired someone else that was much better at giving hand and mouth assistance 😉
So if you get shocked hard enough, I’d assume you’d be liable to urinate in the bath water,
Increasing conductivity,
And giving you and even worse shock.
Either way, you’re in for a bad time if you’re making bagels in the tub and have an accident
Jamie puts Adam in his place.
33:23 Oh no, that pun Hertz.
The 1 ton dumpy bag of sand equates to 2204 lbs not 20,000 lbs!!
I always find it funny in shows like this when they try to ramp up the tension "Omg, someone might die here today! Dun dunnn." Cuz I mean, just the fact you're watching the show means you KNOW from moment one nothing bad happened. If someone died or got grievously injured the episode would never have aired in the first place. So for me it just makes it comical, if not borderline cringey when they try to make it all dramatic.
16:50 gloves are off lol
I think she actually look scared.
She looks cute in that night gown... 33:08 😅😅😅
You're actually right on the spot there Tory. . .
Colombo episode .. "Double Shock.." !?! .. Uncle gets murdered by twins with blender..
Anyone ever heard the rumor that they don’t just tell the myths?!
Didnt know Jamie was such a douchbag with their employees
He def seems like a boss I’d not like to screw something over during work 😅
Love this show ❤😊
Quicksand doesn't kill you its hypothermia
Look at what happened in Weston Supermare with the cockle collectors.
If you had wee that color youre dehydrated somewhat!!!
The Weston supermare cockles pickers died because the tide came in and they drowned!
*Weston Super Mare. Three words. Meaning "Weston above the sea".
Can you try and upload and cement truck/salsa escape episode?
They built "quick sands" in a safe, small, shallow container. Imagine it being 5m deep and 10m wide. Quick sands is some cases DO suck in, don`t try it!
Um of course they did. What were they supposed to do? Build a dangerous huge pit they would die in?
What does the depth and width have to do with anything? If your buoyant your buoyant. It doesn't matter if it's 1000 feet deep or 7 feet. It was clearly busted.
With AC a current meter must only go around 1 conductor.
Look at the cherry datsun 240/260Z in the background
I've used a firehose too, Adam...fecking cool with the power off them.
I've got a huge back tattoo and I mean top to waist!!!
But due to my condition im now claustrophobic and hate MRI'S and will almost have panic attacks whilst in them getting an examination.
Everyone got a tattoo today.
So lame. But hey, Flock animals also get branded.
Get my point? ;)
@@Wings_of_foam Go play with your toy planes you grumpy old misery
So carry has nipple piercings 39:17
She said “bobby pins” 💀
@@a_mind_beside_itself7823 not body pins? 😂
Sorry to break the news brotha 😂😭
@@a_mind_beside_itself7823 the disappointment… :(
I'm glad to live in Germany with an ground fault protection for the whole apartment
The problem is that RCDs that are installed for whole houses in residential areas typically has 30mA tripping current. You can install more sensitive ones, but the problem is that if it is installed "globally" for the whole house, all the equipments' leaking ground current will add up, thus it can trip it when nothing is wrong. Most grounded equipment has some leaking ground current, mostly caused by the Y2 cap in their power supplies or by the capacitive coupling in heating elements (eg. in boilers, (dish)washing machines). So, in real life, the total ground current is rarely zero.
However, it is a common misconception that RCD is for protecting against human contact. It is for detecting ground faults earlier, ie. not when it has grown itself to the 10-30A magnitude where the breaker would trip when there is no RCD in the system.
It *might* save you from electrocution in case of direct contact, or might not, or not in time. So don't rely that much on that and just don't touch live wires and don't store your appliances in the bathtub (while powered, that is). 😄
@@gabioldthe Most deadly accidents in Germany happening in the household because peoples are falling from ladders, more than 8000 deaths per year and over 75% are Not because of electricity, they Just fall from ladders and break they neck.
@@borntoclimb7116 I did not claim that electricity is the evil. In fact, probably it is the most rare cause of death in a household. But that's because properly made equipment and properly wired electrical installations are very safe.
I am just stating here that the purpose of RCD is not to prevent electrocution by tripping on human contact. It is for tripping earlier when ground fault starts to develop due to some sort of degradation of the insulatipn *in a grounded equipment.* The RCD *and* the grounding together provide the excellent safety. If you remove the RCD part, the grounding will still protect you reliably in a predictable way, just not as good. However if you remove the grounding part (ie. the ground in the socket is not connected), then the RCD in itself may not trip on human contact.
I have one for every room - more precise for 6 circuit breakers. I intentionally have no immobile lights through them. That might trigger accidents if the light shuts down in a situation an electric device falls into the water. I also have some sockets illegally intentionally without RCDs. Those that power some computers are wirhout, a socket in the E-lab and 2 more. This was handy 2 weeks ago when I had a flood and used an angle grinder under water to make a hole in the floor to drain the water. I was wearing insulated boots and knew exactly what I was doing. Of cause I should have used a not grounded transformer for the grinder but I don't have a powerful one.
The druug aaddict got the MRI part which is the easy part
Why TF do you think she is/was a drug addict?
@@christopherdean1326 In another early episode, Tori talked very briefly about that, about her past before she joined the show.
@@majortom4543 I must have missed that one.....
Wtf, the GFCIs are built INTO the appliance in America?
Show is 20 years old bro.
12:20 bruh she looked like she was going to cry. prolly not the right management style for her.
24:50 ElectroBOOM in episode "Electrocution in Water" busted Mythbusters.
5:33 Even Mythbusters need to be rectified by THE (FULL BRIDGE) RECTIFIER!!
Not really, when he put his hand in, he got a worse reaction.
33:19 I vividly remember this part as a kid when Tori says Scottie looks cute, and in fact she does look very cute wearing that nightgown, but I didn't remember Kari rolling her eyes. Women can't allow 2 pretty girls in the same room 🤪
And so later they had only one pretty girl and two boys :D. Although I think she was rolling her eyes at Tori's reaction. I think they were getting just fine with Scottie.
@@d4slaimless No thats not the reason why.
Ballistic gel has machanical property similar to human"s body. how about electrical properties?
Jamie was super rude and innapropriate this episode also adding all the drama to the show was a little cringy
I which country, someone would install a power socket near a bathtub? 🤔 Oh wait, the USA?🤭🙄
Tory really likes nightgowns huh ?
Now that I'm all grown up as they say. I realize that these dudes aren't really that smart. The piezo in a lighter can deliver a couple of hundred volts and at least one amp it's just so fast that you barely feel it. What I'm trying to say is that there are many variables you should take into account and they bearly scratch the surface.
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It would have been kool if they would have tested the water flow stopping and the sand compacting, just to see if it is as deadly as they say. Not with people of course.
Just like Tory in this episode, I too fell hard for Scottie watching the show growing up as a kid. Found out she's actually older than my mum, good old times.
Me too. I always thought she was hotter than Kari, but seeing these old episodes again, I realise she was beautiful, and younger than me....
5:33 "Amperage, not voltage, is the killer"
Now get prepared to be rectified by @ElectroBOOM, THE (FULL BRIDGE) RECTIFIER!!!
(the combination of both high enough voltage to pierce through the high resistance of your skin and body, and high enough current to cramp your muscles and lose control is the real danger, frequency also plays a role in whether you even feel any pain or not)
1:32 this always frightened me as a child, this used to be my least favourite episode
Anyone know what season this is? I'm assuming either 2 or 3.
Season 2- episode 6. It's always in the description of the videos if you need to know from what season or episode it is.
5:42 - Savage doesn't understand Ohm's law. Higher voltage will carry higher current.
What? No? Higher voltage means more power for the same current..if anything generally a higher voltage means less current (because power draw would be the same)
@@forbiddenera U=IR. So if you raise the voltage for the same impedance (AC equivalent resistance), the current will also raise.
Torry "She looks cute in that nightgown though" 💀.
He wasn't wrong, but then, she looks cute in everything....
Guys im the only one that got stuck in quick sand?
7:45 how did he call my man Adam? not polite; edit: he's aggressive whole episod, nobody worries about it :D
Jamie knew who he was employing. .😊
Volts AND amps can kill you. 70 milliamps wont do anything if the voltage is low. But it will if the voltage is high.
A voltage is necessary tp get 70mA through your body under given conditions but the voltage is not the killing criterium.
thanks for teaching me how to kill myself. mythbusters
Amps not volts... sigh.
A x26 is 50,000 volts so idk
How do you someone’s a vegetarian? They will tell you.
How Jamie put up an overwhelming adam, is the biggest myth.
Adam looks as annoying as he is. Simply cannot stand him or anything about him.
Jamie is just supercool!!!
Where is Grant?
grant wasn't in the earliest seasons
@@Toxicflu When does he appear in?
@@Toxicflu is this season 2?
I remember I binged all the early seasons, maybe halfway through the entire run and found the viewing really uncomfortable, what with their confrontational dynamic, but can't now remember when that happened. I thought it was season 1, but have rewatched most of those and no sign of it.
They've sorted themselves out by season 4, so I'm wondering if this episode is from 2 or 3?
I'm quite enjoying the dynamic now, knowing that they found a way to work really well together; even if that was to, often, work separately.
Working behind the scenes.
IIRC Grant was brought to the forefront after Scottie left
Google:
Electric Chair History. "The first execution used a voltage of about 1,700, although it was not officially recorded. The voltage has tended to increase over time and in the modern era the voltage is usually 2,000 to 2,200 volts at seven to twelve amps.
Lol calling him an idiot for wearing a pith helmet while wearing a fcking pointless beret 😂
A beret is much cooler?
Do you even know why he is wearing one?
Ryan. That name totally fits you lol.
@@Wings_of_foam go play with your toys
@@KennethNicholson1972 Haha, that's ironic.
Your reply showed us how immature you are kiddo.
i really like christine, she is really genuine. its a shame she left