Comments on: Episode 11: Sinking Titanic, Goldfish Memory, Trombone Explosion

By: q

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:10:27 +0000

why waste a perfectly good duck

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:07:46 +0000

That must have been a wild ride. Thank goodness for Survival Suits eh? Good post, and that myth s NOT a myth.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:05:25 +0000

Man, listen to your spell checker. The red line under the words means something.
Thanks.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:01:42 +0000

You wasted a perfectly good duck.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:56:39 +0000

I’m really late to this party, but here is the problem most aren’t grasping.

A small boat isn’t going to pull you under like a large ship will, because the small boat lacks one vital ingredient. Lots of air in trapped corridors.

As a large ship goes under, the trapped air does what air does when it’s under water. It skyrockets to the surface as a bubble. As a large ship, thinking titanic size, goes down, a large amount of air is still trapped and constantly escaping out.

These large amounts of air bubbles cause the water to lose it’s ability to support weight, and thus you begin to free fall behind the boat.

This has been proven in lab tests to be able to bring down whole ships.

By: earl holcomb

earl holcomb — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:34:10 +0000

you gyes had the ship go down on it’s side and not at the stern of the ship i belive if the ship was to go down at the stern htair would de sucking way that would pull pople down with the ship. i am going on the movie titanic be sids the ship titanic had split in to two parts. maby if you gyes would go in sum deeper water you would get the same thaing would happen.

By: ted

ted — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:30:49 +0000

I had a ship sink out from under me in the bearing Sea. I was sucked under by suction and was very lucky that my survival suit had enough flotation to bring me up once was under about 25 to thirty feet. so myth is confirmed. I have also witness large floating debris suck under when a vessel sink.s

By: ted

ted — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:30:48 +0000

By: Lorne

Lorne — Tue, 31 May 2011 01:05:24 +0000

Sinking ship busted i think not. This has to be revisited. I have been reading some factual books And watching a tv sieres about the first & second world war. All of witch make mention of people being pulled down by sinking ships even far enough to make their ears & nose bleed. If my memory serves my correct in the book The perfect storm this is also mentioned.They obviously need a much bigger vessel.

By: Dung

Dung — Sat, 28 May 2011 02:36:47 +0000

Goldfish… have 2 ponds with lots of gold fish. Had a great blue heron stop by for a few snacks and we thought the fish were history. Well a week later, the remaining fish in one pond reemerged. Was a couple weeks later before we saw a single fish in the other pond. They are all very skittish. I suppose the survivors may be skittish by nature and we rarely saw them before, but I do believe goldfish have a memory much longer than 3 seconds.