Tales Of The Vessel Destroying Whirlpools! | MythBusters | Season 4 Episode 15 | Full Episode
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- Are there whirlpools powerful enough to swallow entire ships? The tales have been around as long as man has been going to sea. With accounts of gaping maelstroms that suddenly opened up, sucking down vessels...
Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk rumours, urban legends and popular myths that have captivated the minds of many individuals.
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"why didnt they just" cut off the plow part of the snow plow and attached it so a regular truck ?!?
They could've strapped the axle up to the frame too... That works when you don't need drive to the wheel.
No wait, that wouldn't work with that type of suspension.
I get that reference
@@nattythepanda4692 you do know that apart from the plough itself... the machine is just a truck... there is no mystical property to it beyond the mechanism of the plough
@@daycmetrollingdeihatin5100 Yeah, my joke didn't translate as well as I thought it would, funnier in my head type beat
@@daycmetrollingdeihatin5100 they would need another truck anyway, one that can be destroyed in case something would go wrong
they didn't even thought that maybe the plow was pushing some snow and not just air ? 😅😂🤣
23:13 sounds like a nice weekend
Mythbusters getting a second wind on TH-cam #realesed 12 hours ago.
At 42:55 you can actually see how close the truck and car where to each other, like 10+ meters apart not a few feet like the narrator goes on lol.
but then we heard Tory say 46 feet at the end. Closer would have been better but still wouldn't have worked
@@philsmith6597 Yeah I didn't expect it to work lmao, I just can't stand when the narration just outright lies to over dramatise wtf went on. We clearly saw it miss by country mile so why go on like it only just missed. It's just typical American TV narrators/narration eg, always talking to the audience as if they are a bunch of 5 year olds. Btw Tori said 4 to 6 feet not 46 feet.
@@Legion563 Show was hosted in America sure but it was actually produced bye an Australian company. Also; it was always advertised as an entertainment show, not a science show.
13:50 LMAO!!!!
Smells like pizza
BEWARE THE CURSE OF THE SNOWPLOW
Haven't watched this show in more than a decade... Was the narrator always this intrusive and annoying?
yes... also he doesn't even speak english, it's broken english considering all the wrong grammar...
As a 22-year-old who grew up on watching MythBusters. I want to extend my most heartfelt thanks to whoever decided to put this on TH-cam for everyone to watch. I'm realizing now, regarding my own abilities of critical thinking of just how well MythBusters influenced me.
Thank you.
Suuuure, get Adam (the guy who gets seasick the most) to spin around like crazy and then act surprised when he vomits. XD
And Jamie is a certified diving instructor. If anyone could handle it, it would be him. And they still chose Adam 😂
@@harvey854 I'd say that's a reason why it *shouldn't* have been Jamie. If something goes wrong, I'd rather have the expert in a position to direct rescue rather then needing to be rescued.
I find it a bit telling about the average age of Mythbusters viewers when you list this channel's uploaded videos and see that the full episodes have ten times as many views as the short clips.
the average gen alpha-er would rather end themselves than watch a full television episode.
I mean first season was 21 years ago. I was 3 when first episode aired. Im 24 now. I would imagine most watchers are and were HELL OF A LOT OLDER
@@rollingmetal94921 years ago? I reject your reality and substitute my own
Average age or average attention span? Or the fact that the show was just that interesting
i use mythbusters as second monitor content so the longer the episode the better.
20:57 Jamie's "problem is you'll never know" is terrifying and so funny
Water and boat physics don't scale like that. They would have to scale the time (and thus the speed of the boat and water) down by the cube of the scale of the volume or something like that. Those boats prove nothing of the sort of what they concluded with.
48:15
"It smells like pizza!"
Maybe the greatest quote in the television history
Jamie did actually have a pet lion.
I should be surprised and yet I'm not
If anything, it's the past tense that surprises me.
jamie ate him
Yeah he seems like a cat person
Who doesn't?
Something seemed off in the scaling of the vortex for the scale ships. It's clear to see a current vs a vortex, I can only assume that the famous "water doesn't scale" thing is at play?
one thing I know is they got wrong is: just how much of an impact does the underlying seafloor have on the whirlpool, and they didn't test for any of that whitch is quite a big oversight as this drasticaly changes the shape and behavior of the vortex
last but not least their peak flow numbers are off: why ?, simply because Old Sow doesn't have the fastest rotating eddies, this rotation speed whitch is a bit higher at ~20 knots
of course if you want a chance to see a vortex that's strong enough to pull in ships, you're likely going to need a scenario similar to the 2011 japanese tsunami to occur, (albeit with a substantialy larger wawe) whitch is something that is something that is not totaly impossible, but it would be a short lived event that only occurs once in a century or so, meaning it's more like a temporary hazard like a large volcanic eruption than something that's allways there
Yeah, I think so too, you can't scale water, the ship is smaller but the forces in play and the water molecules are not
@@iNexusVitto and by "cant scale" you mean the overall energy and lack of surface tention ? because that changes the most depending on scale
becoming much more complex as the boundaries of the currents becomes less defined as the effective viscosity is effectively reduced by this size increase
I remember watching this episode on TV and running back to the TV after all the ads were over.
Yes...tv, that's how it worked.
This ancient technology still exists! There are these things called TVs and they still, to this day, play programs and advertisements on them. A technology old as time itself. Fascinating stuff.
I think I remember this being the first episode I watched and afterwards kid me drew a diagram for a whirlpool machine powered by a bicycle.
Theeere it is! Hahahha. I was wondering when this episode would appear
still waiting for the Ancient Chinese Alarm one :V
Still waiting for border slingshot.
@@matheusfiorelli8829 That one was incredible!!!!
Still waiting for yogurthead and bulletproof grandma episodes
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If this episode was made today, for the snow plow you could have just called Diesel Creek to fix it for you
Now i am afraid of my bathtub whirlpool.....
There's a video of a guy who put a horse mask on and jumped into the water to film and swim around a whirlpool and after filming a few times, he wanted to get in and film 1 last time and it did unfortunately sucked him down and he drowned and died so please be careful with these whirlpools, youtube videos are not worth dying for me thinks.
What is that beautiful car they were trying to knock off the road?
13:38 "The driveshaft might be stuck in the engine" - that there is your problem!
Lol I laughed at that too. Straight past the transmission and right into the engine
@@jordanalexander1592 I'm happy that someone, aside from myself, caught that!
This is our comfort show.
Would have been interesting to take the biggest natural whirlpool as test and see how small the 'ships' in question can go. I wouldn't worry about something insignificant as the forces of nature either if I'm standing on an oil tanker - but in a paddle boat or even one of those small sailers things might be a tiny bit different..
" I wouldn't worry about something insignificant as the forces of nature either"
Whirlpool wise, yeah, but I'd definitely worry about things like storms. Some ships the size of oil tankers have gone down in just lakes.
Admittedly, we've got a lot better tech now, but still. Storms can be scary.
YES - have been waiting for this one 😁👍🤢🤮
May, the subaru libero would flip
I can't believe they didn't just tow the truck beside something that would measure and display the air pressure coming off the plow, or put the plow on a working truck.
Is anyone else reminded of the brilliantly awful movie that was Maximum Overdrive suddenly.
How long was that snowplow struck in snow?
All that salt they use is brutal on machines.
It's not a real Mythbusters episode if Adam doesn't puke
they test 14 knots but the fastest is 20 knots and up to 8 meters in size
47:03 I’ve asked that after a bit of, fresh air 😶🌫️
Didn't Lake Peigneur suck barges and boats down a massive whirlpool!? I'm not sure why Jamie shot that story to dust?
I think you've hit on a key difference here that didn't really get discussed.
Lake Peigneur inevitably sucked in everything because someone essentially pulled the plug out. A whirlpool formed as a result of water being drawn down to the hole made by a drilling rig. All the water travelling downwards also collected spin because of inertia (think about those penny spinner things where you roll a penny around a big cone, it wants to go down, but momentum creates the spiral. This is the same for each point in the lake water).
When Adam and Jamie were on the coastguard boat looking at the whirlpools there, this was slow and fast water mixing. No point in this water is being drawn downwards towards a drain, the water mixes flatly creating a turbulent stream that eventually finds equilibrium. Consider a tornado, air is a fluid and tornados are created in a similar manner by streams of air mixing - tornados don't push things downwards, only outwards. this is why I think, experimentally, Jamie's paddle rig would have lead to a different outcome where Adam would have ended up pressed against the side of the pool - you've even probably seen this behaviour when you use a blender, the liquid in the blender is thrown outwards and up the walls, the direction of travel seems to come upwards through then middle of the vortex (though, I don't think Adam would be keen to enter a pool that was ostensibly a giant blender made by Jamie 😂).
Like most science disputes, this definitely comes down to a minutia that English has a hard time distinguishing between 😅
Great comment. Thanks.
Was Kari testing the myth, how much force a fart takes to blow a hole in your jeans.😂
I was wondering what would cause that kind of hole in her pants
A lot of whirpools
One day I can see the channel.. next day not.. wth.
there's an error in YT javascriptcode that broke the channellink button for some channels meaning if you use middle mousebutton or attempt to open in a new tab it'll throw a YT404. ofc google doesn't intend to fix it because if they did they'd have fixed it years ago.
there might also be other errors that's the cause but that one is the most obvious one and actually testable without checking their horribly written sourcecode...
Tori may have saved Grant's life in this episode. By warning him to not be the driver of the vehicle, they ended up starting at 20mph for safety (whether that was going to be the starting point or not I'm not sure though). With no brakes, or emergency brakes, being done at 20mph, it was the right call.
Tori gave Grant another 14 years of life.
That ain't just a good workmate, that's a good friend right there. ❤
I could see a snow plough flipping a car if it was ploughing at the time but it would have to be a parked car on the same side as the plough as they push the snow to the nearside. the plough they used looks set up to drive on the left. Not bothered as it was another epic episode.
The plow stunt is missing the wall of snow and the power to throw it. It's not about air, it's about a 70 mph ski hill running into your car. Big plow trucks can bury parked cars and throw a snow ramp in front of (opposite direction) moving cars. I know. I'm Canadian. (smiley face)
Yeah same here from new-brunswick and every yeaars at least one i get thrown a snow tsunami by new idiot working for town
The problem with those 2 tests is that there are variables that haven't been taken into account.
For the snowplow, there are cars that are much more easily to flip.
And for the vortex, why did they chose big container ships for scale and not small sailboats for example.
Jess 😍
Kari 😍
Aim a little higher... She was my high school crush. And Simone Simons from the Dutch metal band Epica. I uh, clearly have a thing for redheads.
They're both hotties. Or were anyways lol
This was supposed to make Grant stronger. RIP. ;_;
Man, when I grow up I want to be a snow plow expert
Snow plough thing was so dumb. Didn't need a snow plough at all, just the shovel.
But I bet it was production that was like "we need a real snow plough for the viewers, I found a free one!"
Show would have been better if it was not over produced and faked.
3:17 ... what's a "BooWee"?
12:17 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
sooo... i don't know about usa, but in europe snowplows usually move snow, not air. taking into account that highway speed just means the speed that it legally moves at on a highway which is not 70mph when in slippery conditions or with the plow down their benchmark of 70mph is a joke, 35mph is much more realistic for a snowplow when plowing and just like liquid water snow which is solid water has a much higher density than air making the entire "experiment" a huge joke simply because they're working under the unrealistic assumption that it's the airpressure that can throw a car off the road.
also what's with changing the conditions of the myth midway to tidal whirlpool instead of any naturally occuring whirlpool such as the ones that occur between major ocean currents...
You sound lame 😏
When they introduced the myth it was that the plow was traveling with its plow up, not plowing at the time