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Title Mythbusters: Dumpster Divng
Published Australia : SBS ONE, 2010
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Summary On this new episode of MythBusters the guys plumb the depths and hit great heights with a double diving extravaganza!First, Adam and Jamie jump in with Dumpster Diving. It's a well worn action movie cliche - after a roof top chase, the hero is cornered with nowhere else to go. But luckily there's a convenient dumpster on the street below. So he takes the dive, lands safely, dusts himself off and makes his escape. But is a trash landing really a guaranteed getaway or is this just another example of Hollywood hype?Buster must live up to his name as a trash-test dummy as he becomes the stunt stand in to test a dive into a dumpster full of rubbish. And it wouldn't be MythBusters without a dirty twist in the tale, as one of our intrepid duo puts his life on the line to get to the bottom of this myth. Meanwhile Kari, Grant and Tory take on a ye olde deep-sea diving myth in The Squeeze. According to legend, early diving suits had a flaw, whereby a failure in the air supply could cause a drastic depressurisation. The story goes that the resulting pressure differential would be so severe that the diver's entire body would be forced into his helmet by the weight of the water outside the suit.So to find out if there's any truth to this macabre maritime myth or if it's just plain pulp fiction Kari, Grant and Tory create the closest thing to a human, minus a pulse. Pork.! So will their porcine pal 'meat' with the grisly end this myth predicts? (From the US in English) (Entertainment Series) PG CC WS
Event Broadcast 2010-04-12 at 19:30:00
Notes Classification: PG
Subject Diving suits.
Dumpster diving.
Escapes.
Foam rubber.
Pressure -- Testing.
Form Streaming video
Author Byron, Kari, host
Combs, Jessi, host
Hyneman, Jamie, host
Imahara, Grant, host
Savage, Adam, host