Pratique du Shadowing: How to Escape Alcatraz With Basic Engineering - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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This is Alcatraz, the world's most famously secure prison, and today I'm going to try and escape.
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This does not feel good, but I'll be doing it in a very specific way.
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By recreating the exact same actions these three daring prisoners took, this is a tight squeeze,
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when they executed their year -long plan in what many consider to be the most ingenious prison escape in recorded history.
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So to pull this off, they gave me unrestricted access to the whole prison, because our goal is to use modern technology along with our own engineering skills.
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There's driven once and for all whether these three escapees actually made it safely to land Guys, we are no longer in a row Or if they vanished forever in the frigid,
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shark -riddled waters of the San Francisco Bay I'm not sure we're gonna make it We're gonna make it!
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I cannot believe they would spend 23 hours a day in this tiny little cell On June 11,
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1962, at 9 .30pm, this exact jail cell would have seemed pretty unremarkable to any of the guards on duty,
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and to all but three of the prisoners held here on the island.
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Because that's the night those three prisoners decided they were finally
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going to attempt their escape after nearly a year of meticulous planning and preparations.
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But in order to pull this off, starting right here in their cells, they would need to execute their elaborate six -part escape plan flawlessly, eventually taking them up and out of the prison,
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down to the water, and across the bay to their freedom.
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And to pull this off would require countless strokes of genius, like fake vents to cover up their digging progress, fake bolts made from sculpted soap,
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or a homemade raft fashioned from prison -issued raincoats.
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But all six of those critical steps started right back here with the decoy, moments after lights out at 9 .35pm.
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Since they weren't expected out of bed until roll call the next morning, they needed a way to not sound the alarms with empty beds
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when guards came by to perform headcounts several times during the night.
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So they placed fake heads like these on their pillows that they had spent two months crafting out of soap, concrete dust, toothpaste, toilet paper, and actual human hair.
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This is kind of creepy and it shows how good the heads are
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because I feel like I'm in a jail cell with a sleeping man just out of the corner of my eye.
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The only thing that's missing is the snoring.
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Now at this point it's worth mentioning these weren't your average prisoners.
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Frank Morris had an IQ of 130 and he was the mastermind who planned everything.
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Then brothers John and Clarence Anglin, while not as smart as Frank, were resourceful and good with tools.
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All three had previously escaped from other prisons
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so they were sent to Alcatraz because no one had successfully escaped in its 28 year history.
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So in order to assess
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and truly appreciate every aspect of their bootleg prison engineering I
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needed to recreate all the steps they took in their escape
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so I assembled a prison break team of my own with Johnny Harris and Cleo Abram.
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Cleo would be the mastermind and Johnny and I would be the slightly dumber pair of brothers.
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Really, really good.
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So we gathered up all the exact same materials they had at their disposal.
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Never made a fake head before, but I think we can do it.
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And began the first test.
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I'm going to start mixing.
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Mixing what?
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When it comes to arts and crafts, it's a good idea.
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It's fair to say.
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I just need your face.
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This team lacked experience.
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This is Mark Rober with his abs.
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Despite all that, I think they turned out pretty good.
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These are amazing.
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Because it turned out all you really needed to do was bring in your most artistic friend, Brooke.
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Who's do you want to start with?
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I'm going to start with, oh god.
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Brooke, save us.
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And having Brooke to help us actually put us on par with the original escapees, because they had their own resident artist in one of the brothers, Clarence England, who also worked maintenance and painted as a hobby,
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so he provided the paint.
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His brother, John, on the other hand, worked in the barbershop, so he provided the actual human hair they used.
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Hello.
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Is that how you see me?
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Here's Mark.
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Oh my god.
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So with our picture -perfect facsimiles finished, we put our heads to the test with prison guard Bam.
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Prisoner check.
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Who had been told all three of us remained asleep in our beds.
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And our outcome was significantly different than theirs.
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What?
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I told you, Johnny.
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It almost worked.
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Why are your eyes so wide open like this?
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Providing early evidence, these weren't your average prisoners.
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All right, next test.
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Now that their diversion was set, at 9 .37 p .m., they grabbed some tools
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and crawled through a hole in their jail cell wall they had spent the previous six months secretly digging out.
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So this is the actual hole they crawled through to escape.
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As you can see, it is not very large.
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Wow, this is a very tight squeeze.
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Ow!
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To give themselves a head start on digging, they decided to enlarge an already existing air vent hole underneath each of their sinks.
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And since they obviously didn't have access to power tools, they had to get creative, primarily using stolen spoons from the cafeteria that they'd fashioned into picks by removing the round parts.
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So to gain a better appreciation for what this would actually take, it was time for my jailbreak crew to get to work
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on a replica prison cell we built in crunch labs using concrete
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that was similar to what they would have faced my fingers are starting to get tired
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and it's literally wow you're so soft
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It quickly became clear why it would have taken them months
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to painstakingly scrape their way to a hole big enough to escape from,
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which begs the question, how do you cover up your digging progress
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so the guards don't discover it during their routine room inspection?
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So to answer that question, I headed to the prison archives to meet a good friend of mine, Adam Savage, because he has a lot of myth -busting knowledge on this topic.
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We didn't know that there were still pieces of the original thing until we called over here, and they're like, yeah, come on down, we can show them to you.
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One of the first things he showed me was this.
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Basically, they created an incredibly realistic vent cover made from just cardboard, notebook covers, and soap, which they then painted prison green using spare paint they stole from a maintenance shed.
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From a maker standpoint, this is a masterpiece.
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Yeah.
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To make this out of, like, homegrown materials you're scabbing from the prison shop, and to have looked this good, like a concrete wall, is incredible.
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Back in prison, we were making some progress, but it wasn't exactly quiet work.
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Our three escapees faced this same issue and came up with a clever solution.
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Every night, from 5 .30 to 7, was music hour for all the inmates.
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So one of them would loudly play an accordion while one kept watch for guards with a makeshift periscope, and the third one scraped away.
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And this noise management system turned out to be pretty effective.
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Oh my god, that's so loud!
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The end!
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The end!
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our efforts were proving that digging through concrete with headless spoon was very slow work
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and this must have been something frank morris the mastermind concluded as well
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because he ended up getting his hands on an old vacuum used for maintenance exactly like the model shown here
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and then if you pop off the top shell
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and then remove the fan assembly you will find we have a modified power drill.
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And that ought to speed things up a little bit.
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All the inmates had power outlets in their cells that allowed them to use things like electric shavers, or in this case, bootleg engineered power drills.
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So with the accordion once again masking the sound, they resorted to an improved method of drilling a series of holes
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and then using the spoons to remove the remaining excess material between the holes.
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And as much as this did increase our output as well it was clear this would still take weeks
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and i wanted to get to the crawl through test
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so i raised the white flag and resorted to an air hammer
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which they definitely didn't have at their disposal until the hole
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was the exact same size as the holes in their cells
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look at how much like concrete they would have had to
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remove from the premises right put it in their pockets put it out in the yard yeah
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but this is the actual size of the hole they escaped from I can smell the freedom.
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So it turns out they were like 135 pounds.
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These are tiny dudes.
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They're tiny dudes.
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I don't know if my head will fit through here.
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Cat goes first.
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Now I have to make it.
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Oh crap.
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Oh, there's no way.
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Let's push him.
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Oh.
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No, there's no way this guy's gotten through.
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All that work.
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Ow.
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Johnny makes things up with the feet first approach.
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which meant it all came down to cleo i can totally
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do this oh my god she's doing it oh my gosh she's doing it i can do this
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cleo bro she's already gone wow okay okay well you want a game of tic -tac -toe i guess Okay.
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Back to our prisoners.
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With step two out of the way, at 9 .48 p .m., they found themselves in sort of a secret passageway between the cells.
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But the problem was, they'd have to silently make their way to step three that was four stories above them.
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Here's the holes they would crawl out right here into this utility corner, which honestly is pretty spacious.
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But more importantly, they had to make it to the loft, and there's all these pipes that basically act as ladders that lead them all the way up to right here.
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This is wild.
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This was the roof of the cell block, but when they got here that night, there was already a homemade life raft and life vests, homemade paddles, and makeshift flashlights waiting for them.
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And that's because this wasn't their first time up here.
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They had been sneaking up here for months, using the same decoy heads and fake vent covers, bringing up their hidden homemade tools every night as they fabricated their means for escape.
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And they knew about this spot
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because one of them was actually assigned to work up here for a couple hours during the day,
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painting the ceiling and doing general maintenance under the watchful eyes of the guards patrolling right across the hall.
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So they devised a plan, and every day he would sweep dust down onto the polished floors below, and when the guards and other prisoners eventually complained about the mess, he proposed a simple solution.
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Hanging up blankets in these locations to stop the dust from falling down, creating themselves a private little workshop in the process.
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So of course, once they hang out the blankets, that means they could work up here undetected for months coming up every night, doing some work, crawling down in the morning.
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Frank Morris, the mastermind.
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She's an absolute genius.
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And of course, it makes sense then why during the day they'd work as slowly as possible, taking months to not even finish painting the whole ceiling.
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Oh, this is cool.
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So you could literally see how far he made it over just to buy themselves more time.
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Frank worked in the library, which gave him access to reading materials like Popular Mechanics, where he learned some of the skills they used for designing their paddles
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and constructing the raft and life preservers made from over 50 army -issued raincoats they had borrowed or stole from other inmates.
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And bear in mind, these weren't exactly ideal working munitions.
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Any noise they make up here just echoes throughout the entire prison.
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On top of that, this is where the guards would patrol back
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and forth with Thompson sub -machine guns keeping an eye on all the prisoners.
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So it's wild that just 15 feet away, these guys were literally fabricating their means for escape.
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And now that they had completed step three and were ready to head to the roof with all their provisions, it was our turn to do the same by building the actual rafts we would use to make our own escape.
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So now we're up to the loft.
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We're out of our cells.
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The next big step is how do you make it through these frigid, shark -infested waters?
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What's cool is they had these popular mechanics magazines.
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Inside was how to make a homemade life preserver.
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No way.
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Literally, your life preserver, how will it behave if you need it?
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This is the one I feel like is the most nonsensical.
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It's such a refined construction of a life vest.
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I feel like this is them showing off.
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This is absolutely them showing off.
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It's like get a piece of foam in like a milk jug.
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You know, it's doing the same thing.
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Is this a raft?
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Our theory was that they made four tubes
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and then realized we don't need the second short one because we can just make it a long triangle.
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These tubes are something like 14 feet?
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Yeah.
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That's a yacht.
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Now those instructions were applicable for the typical material you'd find in a rain jacket.
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So these guys collected like 56 of them.
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They made life preservers in a raft, which we are about to do.
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These are some smart dudes.
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MacGyver on steroids.
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Here we go.
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We found a roll of rubberized canvas
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that matched the material of the prison issue rain jackets and then cut them into rain jacket size strips.
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Oh yeah.
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Wow, that's satisfying flow.
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Wow.
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Oh, that was so unsatisfying.
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And then we used period accurate rubber cement to glue the segments together with two and a half inch seams.
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Our life depends on these seams.
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If one of these even has a little leak.
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Oh, my applicator already broke.
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Are there more applicators?
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And then fully sealed the deal with some hammer time.
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And if this seems insanely loud, don't worry.
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I'm going to cover it up.
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We brought the accord.
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The guards will have no idea what we're doing.
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And with that, we rolled it onto itself, then sealed the ends, which led to the final test.
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Seeing if we could inflate it using the same secret weapon the escapees had.
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Oh, yes.
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They took an accordion and actually used it as an air pump.
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Yeah.
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There you go.
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It's pretty strong.
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See?
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Okay.
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The fate of our survival rests on this moment.
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This is the actual raft we will be using to cross the shark -infested Alcatraz waters.
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Here we go.
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Oh my God, it's working.
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It's working.
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Keep going.
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And over the course of about 37 squeaky pumps, we had a fully inflated raft.
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The accordion is the unsung hero.
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Or I guess it's sung.
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A little bit sung.
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Yeah.
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But the all -important question was...
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Listen for a leak.
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Is it fully airtight?
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Nothing.
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Cleo's overjoyed response made it clear that if we just repeated that exact same thing two more times, we'd have a fully functioning wrath.
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Next for the inmates was making it onto the roof.
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But before they do that, it's worth looking at their tools and appreciating that while they didn't have college degrees, they certainly thought like engineers because they were resilient problem solvers.
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And to me, this is what it means to think like an engineer.
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And this is such an important skill to develop for life.
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It's written right on the side of every Crunch Lab's build box that gets delivered to your door every month, where we build a really fun toy together and then learn all about the fascinating physics that makes them work.
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But the best part is, just like I do with my YouTube videos, we hide the vegetables.
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So you're learning all these useful life skills like resilience, but every step of the journey is really fun.
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On top of that, each month your box has a chance to contain the platinum ticket.
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And if you get it, then you're coming out to Crunch Labs to build with me and my team for a day.
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So if you're a kid looking for something to put at the top of your Christmas list, or you're just looking to be the household hero by giving it to someone else,
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head to CrunchLabs .com where we're giving away two free boxes for our holiday special, and where you'll find we've finally completed our trilogy of creative engineering subscription box options,
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now ranging from ages 6 to 106.
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Back with our escapees at 10 45 p .m.
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They were now at step four of their escape plan ready
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to head to the roof through this vent This right here
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is the vent they did it through Now they had previously sawed through the bolt that held the vent shut, and then replaced it with a fake bolt made of soap they had painted to look real.
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They had also previously bent away a restriction bar intended to
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keep a human from fitting through the ventilation pipe using an
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ingenious homemade bar spreader consisting of two opposite threaded bolts with a threaded turnbuckle in the middle.
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So when they tightened the turnbuckle with their homemade wrench, the two bolt heads would slowly deform their restriction bar until there was room enough to slip through.
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So they busted through, pushed up the metal vent, pushed out their rafts, and crawled to the roof at the potential freedom.
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We know the exact time they got on the roof because a guard and several inmates reported hearing a loud bang.
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If you had to push this thing over, it landed on the roof, that's going to make a lot of noise.
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That's loud.
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You can just imagine, they've made it up on the roof.
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They've got their rafts.
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They're running to the edge.
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They've got the city of San Francisco behind them.
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Golden Gate Bridge to their left
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and they know they are mere hours away from drowning in these frigid waters for total freedom.
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It's one or the other.
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So they came here to the edge of the roof, then climbed down the water pipe, made their way along the exercise yard, down by the water tower, and around the power station.
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Now what's truly remarkable about
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that route is they'd have to scale two separate 12 -foot barbed wire fences with all their gear in tow
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while going undetected by the armed guards on the search towers
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who were ordered to shoot on sight any prisoner attempting to escape.
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And the final part of the escape, conveniently, where you can't be seen by the guard tower, they made their way down this embankment and entered the water right here.
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Now this beach wasn't the easiest spot for them to access, but mastermind Frank chose it specifically because it was in a blind spot for all the guard tower searchlights.
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So now that they were down by the water's edge, they inflated the rafts using the modified accordion they turned into an air pump and set off to Angel Island.
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So to get a sense of whether this would even be remotely possible in a homemade raft, We launched our own homemade raft from a beach location that was very similar to theirs.
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Go, go, go, go, go.
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Careful, careful.
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I don't want you to break it.
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This is it, guys.
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This has to work.
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Okay.
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Time to start making the music.
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Get in there.
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I'll hold you, pump.
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Johnny, why don't you start filling one in the other's with your mouth?
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Okay.
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Can you imagine being here on the beach?
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Being like, the guards might come at any moment.
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Blow harder, Johnny.
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Come on, Johnny.
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This is not easy.
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Tastes like glue.
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No, damn it.
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Oh, no. I didn't prepare for this.
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Let's get these on.
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Watch your eyes.
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Oh, shoot.
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It just broke.
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It still works.
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Getting a core workout here.
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Guys, I'm almost full.
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This one's full.
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No way this lasts.
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This is the first thing I'm doing.
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All right, we've got to get in the water.
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Let's get in the water.
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Go, go, go, go.
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Get in there.
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Oh, it's cold.
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Get in, Cleo.
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Careful on those seams.
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It's solid.
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Let's go, Rick.
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We're free.
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We're free.
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We're free.
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now you'll notice it's not exactly dark even though we know they launched after lights out in the evening that's
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because we ran some tests of our own by strapping 20 gps devices in waterproof containers to some driftwood
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and then we threw them in the water near their launch spot at various times in the tide cycle
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and then we tracked where they ended up
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and this experiment yielded some very unexpected results whoa we're looking
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at some movement here wait this is not what i was
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expecting to see we're trying to go over here not now
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because of the strong current the driftwood logs got caught up in, none of them even came close to making it to their intended destination Angel Island,
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either as the current came in on high tide or went out on low tide.
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In fact, of all the logs we threw in, only a few ever made it to land during an ideal
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30 minute tidal window at a location right about here next to the Golden Gate Bridge.
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And this is something Frank probably knew as well by observing debris in the water moving with the tides, meaning all their rumored plans for heading to Angel Island were just diversions
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and their real plan was to land here all along
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so to maximize our chance of a successful escape we entered
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the water at the same perfect 30 -minute tidal window based
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on the tides for our day for paddling to freedom folks
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the tide is just pulling us let's go we're moving
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so fast man guys this is epic look at this look at
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this is beautiful we're free oh my god wow this is amazing
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we were feeling optimistic
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but once we got about a quarter of the way to
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the bridge the waves drastically increased in size oh these waves are huge oh my way oh i was getting queasy fast.
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So I ditched the paddle and adopted a new strategy.
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Okay, at this point, you live and die by the current.
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Paddling is just totally free trial.
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It's just about surviving and like floating our way in the current.
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A large portion of my body is underwater right now.
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I'm just like engulfed this thing.
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I cannot move.
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We're basically sitting in just a massive life preserver.
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Like the world's most dangerous water vent.
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With like sharks swimming around you.
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And this was a Legitimate concern.
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Here's an actual clip right off the shore of Alcatraz of a great white shark hunting a seal.
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In fact, when I was scouting out the location the inmates launched their raft, I saw another seal right off the shore.
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You know what these seals?
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Sharks.
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To make matters worse, I knew in this area great whites hunted primarily at dawn and dusk.
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It gives you some real appreciation for what and how they did this.
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How do you think they were feeling if they got this far?
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Victorious.
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This not home free yet.
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Big waves!
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Oh my goodness!
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These are six footers!
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He's a white cat!
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Literal white cat!
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Oh my god!
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We're almost cap time!
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It is tumultuous on the open sea.
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And despite the rough waters, our great escape was going pretty well, right up until the raft started deflating.
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We're definitely losing air!
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This is not good.
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The moment I put a little bit of pressure on it, air comes rushing out.
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I'm holding on tight right here, making sure it doesn't leak.
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And I'm holding this one on this side
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and since our trusty accordion pump was back on shore we
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had to get creative get some air back in there please folks our survival depends on it
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and to make matters worse water everywhere in here this is more than
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that time dude we are up to our waist in water the waves are just
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so hot the water is freezing cold but alcatraz is fading into the distance
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and the golden gate bridge is coming closer and this was good news
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because even if johnny made it it was looking more
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and more likely his dinner wouldn't i'm nauseous you better be battling
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oh god it might vomit sorry okay i'm probably to the
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end i will not be defeated i will not be defeated oh this is for freedom Go, Cleo!
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Go, Cleo!
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We are sinking so much faster.
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But you know what?
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You've got heart.
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And if you've got heart, you've got freedom.
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That's not actually true.
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We are really putting on a lot of water.
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That is actually true.
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We can do this, guys.
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We can do this.
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Guys, the bridge is right there.
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I see the bridge.
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Dr. Trans is fading with every minute.
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Guys, we are no longer in a raft.
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This is the ocean.
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We are going outside, um, Johnny?
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I'm up to my sternum now.
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I'm like most underwater.
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No, I'm not.
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Are you okay?
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Are you okay?
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No, we don't.
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Stay with us.
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Stay with us.
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Johnny looked like he had a plan to fix our sinking situation, but it turns out he was thinking more about content than survival.
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We're back together again.
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Which makes this a good time to mention no matter what happens here, you should know they both have incredible YouTube channels.
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Like Cleo just uploaded a video about what we could actually do if a giant asteroid were headed towards Earth.
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An asteroid impact is worse than you might think.
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And Johnny just uploaded a video about the infamous El Chapo prison escape in Mexico.
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This place was considered inescapable.
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But even still, he had escaped through one of his tunnels. So close!
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The current's taking us!
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It still has air!
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Hold on to that!
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Hold on!
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I am!
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The current had done about 90 % of the work for us, and now it was up to us to make the final push to freedom.
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Big push!
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Go!
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Big push!
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Come on.
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Which would have been much easier without my prison -issued footwear.
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Are you still coping?
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Stop!
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Oh my God.
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Come on, we're there.
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We're free.
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Oh my God.
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Land, land!
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Oh my God.
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We made it!
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We did it!
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We did it!
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We actually did it!
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We turned from all the trash!
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Oh!
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We actually did it.
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We're free.
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Oh my God, I'm so tired right now.
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That's one of the hardest things I've ever done in my whole life.
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Yeah.
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So after all that, the question that remains is did they survive that final step?
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Now what we know for sure is the FBI recovered evidence of their escape, like paddles or life jackets, in these four locations.
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But what we also know is on any given night, there's only a 30 minute window where the high tide current will take you from Alcatraz safely to land.
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And any attempt outside that time frame basically means certain death from hypothermia or drowning.
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And thanks to a lot of modern science, we, of course, knew exactly when that 30 -minute window was for our escape.
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And so after checking the historic tide records on the exact night of their escape, for them, that vital window would be between 11 .30 and midnight.
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And according to the FBI records, ingenious Frank Morris, with access to none of the data we had, pushed off right in that sweet spot at 11 .40 p .m.
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Even with all that, realistically, I still put their odds at less than a 50 % chance of surviving the final step.
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But if anyone was going to beat those odds, it would be the serial escape artist, genius IQ, bonafide bootleg prison engineer, Frank Morris.
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This year, if you want to strengthen that resilience muscle in your brain while having tons of fun along the way, go to Crunchlabs .com and use the link in the video description,
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale s’appuie sur la vidéo « How to Escape Alcatraz With Basic Engineering ». Cette vidéo contient 392 phrases et 4903 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 25:05. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 196 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 83 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais ; le reste mérite d’être vu avant de commencer.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
15 mots de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| prisoner nom | /ˈpɹɪzənə/ | prisonnier, prisonnière |
| homemade adjectif | fait maison, maison | |
| ventilation nom | /ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ | ventilation, aération |
| inmate nom | /ˈɪn.meɪt/ | détenu, détenue |
| concrete adjectif | /ˌkɑnˈkɹit/ | concret |
| dig verbe | /dɪɡ/ | creuser |
| bolt nom | /boʊlt/ | boulon, vis |
| crawl verbe | /kɹɔːl/ | s'aplatir devant, s'aplatir |
| jacket nom | /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/ | veste, blouson |
| seal nom | /siːl/ | sceau, cachet |
| pump nom | /pʌmp/ | pompe |
| soap nom | /soʊp/ | savon |
| dust nom | /dʌst/ | poussière |
| steal verbe | /stiːl/ | voler |
| survival nom | /sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/ | survie |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| turn out verbe | se finir, se terminer |
| cover up verbe | cacher, dissimuler |
| end up verbe | se terminer, se finir |
| give away verbe | offrir, donner |
| show off verbe | crâner, faire le malin |
| bring up verbe | élever |
| come up verbe | se montrer, sortir du bois |
| come up with verbe | inventer, imaginer |
Des phrases à répéter
Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :
- Careful or you'll break it.
- You're like, the guards might come at any moment.
- This is the first thing I'm ditching.
- I'm just like engulfed in this thing.
- We're basically sitting in a massive life preserver.
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
|---|---|
| Phrases conditionnelles if + proposition, will/would + verbe — une condition et son résultat | if my head will fit |
| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | weren't expected · were sent · had been told |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | we've finally completed · they've made · I've ever done |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 107 contractions et formes réduites, comme we're, I'm, gonna. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « th »: thread /ˈθɹɛd/, theirs /ðɛɚz/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, myth /mɪθ/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: ventilation /ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/, shore /ʃɔɹ/, appreciation /əˌpɹiː.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, restriction /ɹɪˈstɹɪkʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: ventilation /ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, appreciation /əˌpɹiː.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, underwater /ʌndɚˈwɔtəɹ/, resilience /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: hammer /ˈhæmɚ/, household /ˈhaʊshoʊld/
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: jacket /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/, genius /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/, legitimate /lɪˈd͡ʒɪt.ɪ.mət/, vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/, frigid /ˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪd/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: prisoner /ˈpɹɪzənə/, concrete /ˌkɑnˈkɹit/, crawl /kɹɔːl/, shore /ʃɔɹ/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/
Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo
- Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
- Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
- Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme prisoner, homemade, ventilation.
Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?
Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.