Special 17: Wet & Wild
Air Date: November 16, 2011
This episode featured a countdown of the cast’s favorite myths involving water.
12. Wettest & Wildest
Myth: Waterslide Wipeout
This segment featured details on building the massive, steep launch ramp for this myth, and Adam’s experience sliding down it.
11. Water Bomb
Myths: Water Safe, Black Powder Shark
This segment featured two of the cast’s favorite myths involving submerged explosives.
10. Out in the Cold
Myth: Swimming in Syrup
This segment revealed the challenges of staying warm during the swimming time trials, filmed during winter in San Francisco.
9. Dive! Dive! Dive!
Myth: The Squeeze
Revealed the Build Team’s unsavory experience with the pork dummy Tory built to help test this myth.
8. MythBusters on Ice
Myth: Blue Ice
The Build Team reflected on their visit to a NASA low-temperature wind tunnel.
7. Under Pressure
Myths: Exploding Water Heater, Steam Powered Machine Gun
This segment discussed dealing with the energy and hazards of steam in myth testing.
6. Pool Cruelty
Myth: Bulletproof Water
Revealed the mayhem caused by firing high-powered weapons into a swimming pool.
5. Water Torture
Myth: Chinese Water Torture
Highlighted the unpleasant experiences of Adam and Kari during this round of testing (Adam urinating on himself, Kari enduring the torture until a paramedic stopped the test and removed her).
4. The Life Aquatic
Myth: Octopus Egg Pregnancy
Adam discovered that the texture of his skin was unusually pleasant to octopuses.
3. Boatmageddon
Myth: Bifurcated Boat
The Build Team faced repeated difficulties in setting up and performing their tests on land.
2. Hidden Depths
Myths: Eye Gouge, Fish Flap, Fatal Flashlight
Memorable shark myths, as chosen by each cast members.
1. Rock the Boat
Myth: Building a Pykrete Boat
The inspiration for building a speedboat out of newspaper-based “Super Pykrete” stemmed from the cast’s second trip to Alaska.
Hey Guys why dont you try doing under-water explosions and the presure efectcts
like the anti sub mines etc
should make bute film efects
regards
dave from Australia
About paper and steel armour. In around 600AD, there were the tribes from Pearl River area, (Southern China not yet incorporated into the Chinese Empire) kneated bamboos to make body armours. They were inpenetrable by arrows and deflective to sward strikes. The Hans won the war eveually by luring the bamboo armoured soliders into a canyon and set them on fire.
i just saw the moon one and i wood like to ask can u bust
if man can make a real fake UFO and make it look real thank you