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Alcatraz, the world’s most notorious prison, reveals its deepest secrets after the deadly waters that surround it are drained away.
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@NJNinni Год назад

Alcatraz officially says, that no one has ever escaped our prison. What? What about those 3 dudes that escaped and were never seen again? The way I look at it they did escape if they were not in the prison and no one can find them, they escaped, However, they might not have made it out of the water and that's true, but they were never in that prison again. Those dudes escaped!

@NoNORADon911 Год назад

@@yaad2226 Oh snap a yo mama joke! What a comodian! 🚽

@yaad2226 Год назад

@@NoNORADon911 yo mama miss them yo mama joke??

@yaad2226 Год назад

@@JosephBloggs-jk5lv they did not hitched a ride they when with yo mama just ask yo mama about before ya say anything here yo mama know where they went cause after they escape yo mama helped them with yo papa yo uncle yo aunty ya all family helped them

@JosephBloggs-jk5lv Год назад

@@yaad2226 ?

@yaad2226 Год назад

@@JosephBloggs-jk5lv ask yooooooooooooo mamaaaaaaaaa

@bassistmike1987 Год назад

Half the show was them telling us they will drain the bay 😂

@JustMe-gs9xi Год назад

yeah, i got mad and skipped to the end.

@johnbrattan9341 3 месяца назад

This vid, quite simply, is horsecrap.

@PeacefulPariah 3 месяца назад

FACTS, kinda annoying.

@phbhf 2 месяца назад

Appealing to the slow. Also, this was probably made with TV and Commercials in mind.

@townoftragedy 2 месяца назад

It's for tv commercial breaks my friend, this was not formatted for youtube originally.

@voidrf Год назад

Pretty wild that NatGeo was able to drain the bay like that. I hope the fish are ok.

@YeshuaCameAndGaveUsLifeandLove Год назад

😅me 3!

@ppmtrader Год назад

🤣 😂 😂. Actually the fish were already escape last 1962 together with the prison brothers so it's safe to drain it now and other species are in hibernation mode so it's also safe.

@Knards Год назад

There is an entire series of drain the oceans from them. Everything from the Titanic to war ships and so many other things

@fernandopadilla9963 Год назад

No fish were harmed during the making of this document

@fernandopadilla9963 Год назад

They should do a documentary on draining Washington DC😂

@dennisna8669 Год назад

Thanks National Geographic for the great documentaries. Getting it on RU-vid is terrific.😃

@theirmom4723 Год назад

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Yet, you are here posting...you should be praying

@bobbymercer2287 День назад

@@theirmom4723 yet, here you are posting...you should be praying

@bgmrelaxation2664 Год назад

Don't forget to smell the roses every once in a while. Time goes by so quick, it's easy to forget about all those little things that make life meaningful.

@lindalaw8368 3 месяца назад

Where did they store the water that they drained?!❤😂

@sabarinath4524 Год назад

So informative.generally speaking, People who put RU-vid to good use can really learn a lot of amazing things that schools never teach

@Jay-jb2vr Год назад

Yea that's kinda why RU-vid is popular

@thektb36 Год назад

Now it’s one of the best resources as a teaching aid when wanted/needed. 👍🏻

@MicEE2998e5 Год назад

this documentary is pseudo informative, entertainment at best

@Peekaboo-Kitty 11 месяцев назад

Schools just teach you how to become a Working Drone for the Elite and nothing more.

@ville666sora 3 месяца назад

I've learned so much more as an adult watching youtube over the years than I ever learned in school. Not to mention the way information is taught in school is so boring, I would have paid attention more if it was as interesting as youtube.

@khemmarie1818 Год назад

Frank Morris reportedly ranked in the top 2% of the general population in intelligence, as measured by IQ testing (133). The Anglin brothers were skilled swimmers and have been swimming in the frigid waters since they were a kid. Those men were smart and capable! Never underestimate the power of determination. They definitely survived, made it out alive and lived a lowkey life.

@scottnathanphoto Год назад

Agreed. Athletes do that swim roundtrip everyday.

@Rosie05610 Год назад

I agree with you

@kevindunlap5525 Год назад

I was reportedly going to hit the lottery, as measured by MY IQ testing. Oh, and I have been swimming in sub-frigid waters in my neighbor's backyard, since before I was a kid. So, when did you meet these smart and capable people? Tell us about your brunch that you had with them after they definitely survived and lived a lowkey life.

@molliwilson5639 Год назад

@@scottnathanphoto LOL

@scottnathanphoto Год назад

@@Rosie05610 Yeah. It's a fact. Search Alacatraz swim here. Countless people have done it.

@emmmkay9041 Год назад

Several years ago, Mythbusters did an episode on this and showed that it is possible to get the raincoat raft across the bay to arrive at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, so it is plausible that the convicts did escape on the raft.

@CyborgMaMa Год назад

S1 E11: Alcatraz Escape

@disposable3167 Год назад

yes and they also made it very clear that they dont believe the prisoners survived. they only concluded it as "plausible" because a raincoat raft would stay afloat in perfect conditions, which we already knew was possible.

@jamesmcbeth4463 2 месяца назад

I am curious about how many rafts they built before actually producing a seaworthy one. Television shows have a habit of editing things like that out. Remember, the inmates had to do their escape in an untested prototype.

@BushidoNinja 2 месяца назад

And then the raft vanished into thin air?

@jeremysmith9694 День назад

@@BushidoNinja and they vanished into thin air?

@soundXedits Год назад

As someone who escaped Alcatraz several times, I found this video very entertaining

@jets_4237 Год назад

Say what? Dets!

@nanasnickers6874 Год назад

😅

@king.g.7184 Год назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@lsophial Год назад

😂🤣

@samdaymore3974 Год назад

Good for u ..

@drinaldi2000 3 месяца назад

17:00 “The monitors show a strange landscape below.” The landscape: featureless.

@engineer_07-present14 Год назад

With their determination and IQ, they used the current to get the raft further quicker. Once the got out beyond the bridge, the current let them go to get to shore. Just my thoughts. The reason they said they didnt survive was to keep the reputation of alcatraz.

@MarkWoodChannel Год назад

There absolutely were successful escape attempts from Alcatraz, now they may not have lived very long after escaping but they most definitely did escape the prison.

@aarongarcia1101 3 месяца назад

Yes, they did, but surviving is no way

@MarkWoodChannel 3 месяца назад

@@aarongarcia1101 that's an opinion

@at20rule 3 месяца назад

look up sarah thomas craig lenning farallon island swim over 25 miles and 15 hours in worst conditions and tell me a 4k ft swim from Alcatraz isn't possible or maybe even easy for some.

@BushidoNinja 2 месяца назад

It's not a successful escape if you die lol part of the prison was the bay. They had to make it to land to successfully escape.

@MarkWoodChannel 2 месяца назад

@@BushidoNinja everyone dies, they successfully escaped the prison no one actually knows if any of them survived.

@SotiriosBouzaras Год назад

A boat without lights found near the Rock the night of the great escape, according to the local police, a stolen car and many more, could be the missing pieces of the puzzle of the true story about Frank Morris's team.

@andrewj9831 2 месяца назад

Plus the missing extension cord that was by the dock

@chris.asi_romeo Год назад

Love watching documentaries like this.

@greggamandabarkus4235 2 месяца назад

I've been sitting here binge watching the whole draining it series for so long I had to pause It and go drain something myself.

@carrolmcdonald8611 Год назад

Brilliant viewing, thank you so much!

@urmommabear5monthsago Год назад

So cool, my grandfather was a guard there and was there when they brought Al Capone in. I’ve heard so many stories about it.

@triciac1019 3 месяца назад

You should write them down and post it.

@robertmistkowski9879 3 месяца назад

Been in a couple of Capones properties here had bought down in Florida.. The Bay area.. Pasco,Tampa, Port Richey area... Crazy how small the world really is

@keonikelly3794 Год назад

I love National Geograpic Documentaries!

@scottkrater2131 Год назад

Maybe they should have 3 guys with a similar build try to make it in a homemade raft using the same materials and see what happens.

@jets_4237 Год назад

Right! That makes to much sense.

@rayshowalter3531 Год назад

They did and they made it,I even think Mythbusters did it

@snakefollower Год назад

@@rayshowalter3531 I remember that episode of Mythbusters.

@KhrisWithK Год назад

thats kinda dangerous

@scottkrater2131 Год назад

@@KhrisWithK not exactly like the escape. They'd have boats to film it all and make sure everyone is ok.

@kirktennyson612 Год назад

I remember a report back in the 80's I think during a story about this escape, that stated that a family member of one of the inmates received a post card from South America stating they made it and that the FBI were following up of course there was nothing more from the government as they did not want to make these guys into some sort of hero or something.

@Erik_The_Viking Год назад

Yeah two of them were in Brazil.

@davidschonhardt4958 3 месяца назад

That was fantastic! Good job Nat. Geo. I really enjoyed this one!

@rosswoolley2854 3 месяца назад

I remember watching it, they hid out in some mountain and they found some relics from them were they were camped!

@timreno72 Год назад

When my Dad was in High School he swam from S.F. to Alcatraz as a prank and made it within 100 yds. before being picked up by the U.S.C.G. Dad was a strong swimmer and said it wasn't nearly as hard as they want you to believe. Ironically my Dad later joined the C.G.

@Funk_Reactions Месяц назад

Who else fell asleep 💤 and woke up to this and started watching!!!!

@pattycoe7435 Год назад

Just ONE of my favorite offerings of the National Geographic Channel. A quality channel and quality UTube channels!!

@SaevusMortem Год назад

The 3 men who escaped are alive. But the 1 is heavily injured. They found a boat roaming by when they escape. They promise to pay the owner a good fortune. This is the story of my grandfather telling me when i was kid. He's a coast guard in the area.

@gabbyday7065 Год назад

The Booes should been put to test with the same weight as the escapees, along with their "partial" equipment. All 3 tests failed for not representing the same "weight condition" , for the comparison of what could have happened. Great documentary, thank you.

@esesmmee Год назад

Totally agree

@LLC1776 Год назад

not to mention that they should have tested it from the location they started their journey

@beejereeno2 11 месяцев назад

buoys*

@LeatherNeck-0331 8 месяцев назад

bouys should have been dropped closer to the island same as a raft being deployed

@1965Grit 7 месяцев назад

And take into consideration of them rowing towards Angel island, or another possibility of them rowing east around the back of the island and use the current to push them closer to San Francisco.

@Wutzmename Год назад

Mythbusters did an episode on this over 20 years ago and they recreated the raft and conditions and determined that they could have made it to Angel Island.

@kaceykelly7222 Год назад

I believe Myth Busters said there was a witness that said a boat was waiting for them.

@CyborgMaMa Год назад

S1 E11: Alcatraz Escape

@Erik_The_Viking Год назад

@@kaceykelly7222 That was also brought up on Unsolved Mysteries as well. Could've easily picked them up.

@forsakenr2907ify Год назад

fun thought...Morris and the Anglen's made a drill out of a fan motor. What if they made an outboard type trolling motor out of one, too?

@TheSoloAsylum Год назад

Those three men didn't plan for months, pull off the escape and then all drown. They got away.

@jdoyle4811 Год назад

They planned not for months but years, The Anglin Brothers and Morris. The current there is unbelievably strong in SF Bay with Alcatraz located centrally plus the water is cold. I was at Alcatraz just a week ago on vacation from the East Coast and was my third visit. You have right to opinion that they got away but because they planned well?

@MrShanester117 Год назад

It’s bizarre that someone would think that is a logical way to think

@johnc.8298 Год назад

Perhaps so but the odds were against them in many ways as this documentary laid out. They didn't have the benefit of a "trial run".

@AQUAMAGNET Год назад

Thank you for the amazing documentaries!

@PRIVATEME2013 Год назад

So pleased i found this channel. Thank you National Geographic.👍

@ouchsp Год назад

The Mythbusters tested this story years ago. They made it to freedom!

@GaryG63 Год назад

Myth-busters… yes the final word… hilarious

@johngreydanus2033 Год назад

@@GaryG63 No, your the final word, hilarious too

@terabit. Год назад

Imagine the escapees' grandchildren watching this documentary ! 🤣

@DrumMenace Год назад

The ranger says that the three and their raft was never found, but they did find a raft on the next island over made of raincoats. I have watched many documentaries over the years that neglect this fact, yet then a few do mention the raft. They also found one paddle that the material was traced back to Alcatraz.

@peanutmansemporiumofrandom7472 Год назад

Law enforcement to this day wants the American public to believe that they died during the escape. They’ll NEVER accept or admit defeat. Those men successfully escaped.

@damikey18 Год назад

So do you think that they successfully escaped and survived?

@DrumMenace Год назад

@@damikey18 I believe it to be possible. There was a documentary a few years ago that shed much light on a very plausible theory. There was a ferry schedule found in Morris' cell with the last ferry at 11pm, I believe. The inmates had also stolen quite a bit of rope and worked their way around the island to the boat dock, tied on to the ferry, and let the ferry pull them across the bay. They would have let out all the slack in the rope (150' I believe) so that they couldn't be seen in the dark. They grew up in Florida and that's the kind of stuff we do here (I'm from FL as well). The theory made sense to me so I do see it as possible.

@damikey18 Год назад

@@DrumMenace Kudos to the men that escaped I guess one can only hope that they spent the rest of their lives doing good

@Peekaboo-Kitty 11 месяцев назад

They were excellent Swimmers and many have swum the path from Alcatraz to land and made it. The Police almost ALWAYS lie. The FBI had to lie here as well to save face! Google the article "The proof that 3 men survived their escape from Alcatraz."

@triciac1019 3 месяца назад

I love how National Geographic does these programs.

@billysmether6237 3 месяца назад

Our swim team does the Alcatraz swim every year. A swim from the prison to the shore. It is done every year and only takes about 45 minutes. Not a big deal.

@user-vi9qn7cz4k Месяц назад

I admit to having no clue, but an escapee had to swim under the cover of darkness. Did your swim team get the luxury of swimming near the changing of the tide? A crossing during an incoming tide would seem much easier too since you're gonna come ashore SOMEWHERE.

@user-vv4io2ch7l Год назад

Amazing Documentary, very detailed, easy to understand. Love it️. Love watching documentaries like this..

@scinanisern9845 Год назад

The last time I saw the details of this story it contained the gem that the raft was found. Found on the southern shore. At the very least they find both ores, both vests, no bodies. It looks to me like they made it.

@Peekaboo-Kitty 11 месяцев назад

@traycwilson945 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for speaking the truth

@Kevin_747 Год назад

As an airline pilot flying in and out of SFO the view of Alcatraz always gave me a few seconds of pause knowing all the mystique that surrounds it.

@vanessajaneescueta4762 5 месяцев назад

love watching this! thank you for uploading!

@mike-sk2li Год назад

Sharks were extremely rare in the 1940s. SF Bay had too much fresh water from river discharge. Sand sharks were abundant but are small and don't attack humans.

@robbieg4700 Год назад

''officially'' as if ANYTHING any police agency or the government asserts can be believed.😂😂

@MrGrombie Год назад

I hope they got the fish out before they emptied the ocean lol

@user-di9io5uf5c Год назад

Love watching documentaries like this.. Amazing Documentary, very detailed, easy to understand. Love it️.

@MatejFiedler Год назад

it could be even slightly more into a detail. To me, it seems slightly more general and less professional than for example Air Crash Investigation. But still great!!!

@ExploringMom Год назад

Amazing Documentary, very detailed, easy to understand. Love it❤️

@wilson5377 Год назад

Thank you National Geographic for sharing this series.😊

@rion-cd8kg 2 месяца назад

You can be the first to sign up to be one of the 3 guys!

@annakinnard 9 месяцев назад

I've read an article years ago that they sent letters and told them they had escaped and were still living.

@MarkovianMan Год назад

If they were able to get off the rock, by definition they successfully escaped. It doesn't matter if they died, disappeared or were later recaptured.

@serenetamitha5244 11 месяцев назад

Im pretty sure these three survived. Thank u National Geographic for this documentary❤

@Islandgirl2133 Год назад

Wonderful!! Can Nat-Geo drain the swamp in DC too?

@howardpopeiii5764 4 месяца назад

I was in Loma Prieta in '89. Lived in Monterey at the time. I can say I never want to be in another major quake again.

@TheWalkingDeadZombies Год назад

I love learning more about the Alcatraz so interesting

@snowairland Год назад

I really thought Alcatraz was a boring tourist trap, but it was the most interesting tour I’ve done, also after the tour watch the movie escape from Alcatraz, it’ll reinforce how brazen of an escape it was and you’ll recognize exactly where the actors were in the prison.

@Tam_Eiki Год назад

I've taken the tour twice - both tours were the last ones of the day taken at the end of October. While inside Alcatraz the sun would go down and you could see the city lights across the bay through the small windows while dim, bare light bulbs lit the walk ways between the cells. That must've been torturous for the inmates, to be able to see the free world yet never getting to experience it.

@cornfarts Год назад

Never taken the tour even though i lived near by. But when i do i will have call of duty in mind 😂

@kristenr8311 Год назад

night or day?

@snowairland Год назад

@@kristenr8311 I heard the last tour of the day is the best, I went on the second to the last and it was dark when the tour ended and the dark added a bit to the tour, the s.f. Skyline was cool.

@YoungGun821 Год назад

I finally gave this place a visit this past weekend after living in the bay area my whole life. Very neat to see. Dunno why my family never went or why I didn't see it sooner. The ex-prisoner they have in this document was there singing the book he wrote about his stay there. Deffently going back again!

@user-ck7jy2hk5g 11 месяцев назад

Amazing Documentary, very detailed, easy to understand. Love it.

@1956tojo 4 месяца назад

There's one out where they drain the Great Lakes that's very good also..

@kb9847 2 месяца назад

This was facinating! Thanks for posting.

@NotSoTrippy Год назад

The 3 men did in fact escape Alcatraz. Thoughty2 has a amazing video covering the escape!

@johnc.8298 Год назад

As old men near death, and no punishment likely, why hasn't one of them come forward to revel in the notoriety?

@NotSoTrippy Год назад

@@johnc.8298 just look up "Thoughty2 Alcatraz" the video should pop upp

@johnc.8298 Год назад

@@NotSoTrippy cool! thx.

@NotSoTrippy Год назад

@@johnc.8298 did u end up finding the video? if so what did you think?

@josephdonais4778 2 месяца назад

"...most infamous prison in the world...", "...most notorious criminals in the world". The writer's world is apparently quite small.

@CyborgMaMa Год назад

MythBusters recreated this successfully. Using raincoats and wooden paddles, they left Alcatraz and made it to land. Might want to include this in yr documentary also. Alcatraz Escape MythBusters: Season 2, Episode 8

@disposable3167 Год назад

they only concluded it as "plausible" because remains were never found. they also recognized that it is EXTREMELY unlikely they survived, especially considering their belongings and the broken raft were found washed up and the men were never seen alive again. and no, the mythbusters did not make it to land from alcatraz lmao. it was a scaled down version of what could have happened. i'd recommend you watch the episode again because they make it pretty clear they don't think the prisoners actually made it out alive. they just confirm that a raincoat raft would've worked if the conditions were perfect.

@CyborgMaMa Год назад

@@disposable3167 but you havent seen it i guess because they DID make it to shore. “The MythBusters theorized that the escapees used the tides to go to a different location. The makeshift raft crafted and crewed by the MythBusters team successfully made it across the bay and made it to the Marin Headlands. They declared it "Plausible" because the fate of the prisoners remains unknown.”

@d.thomson4265 Год назад

@@CyborgMaMa Lets not forget many people make this swim every year, there is a website dedicated to it. Just dont know if the escapees factored in the current.

@DuperMate Год назад

@@disposable3167 they did escape. They hide under the dock and the boat that does the shift changes towed them to safety, This was released years ago.

@Xpunkpro Месяц назад

MythBusters is full of 💩💩. Stop believing everything you are told. MythBusters or anyone else doesn't know the weather conditions of this area that night or the Ocean Currents flow that evening.

@deejay4922 Год назад

What stands out is the use of the metric system by the USGS. All other referrals to measurement are in vague imperial units. Good doco.

@allysonfoster6622 8 месяцев назад

Thank you! Very educational !!

@susiesweet8003 Год назад

They didn't drown...they spent the rest of their lives with D. B. Cooper on a tropical island, sipping margaritas. 🥰 🐚🐬🍍🥥🦞🏝🏖

@robertfyfe6185 Год назад

Yes i think they had someone pick them up in a boat !And they took off ! ?

@susiesweet8003 Год назад

@@robertfyfe6185 I don't think we'll ever know but I would like to think so. IDK how old you are but with Cooper back then, America needed a hero & he accepted the challenge. 🥰 The Vietnam War, nixon, lack of civil rights...equals or surpasses living under trump. If you were to ask anyone except law enforcement, everyone hoped he made it. 😘

@marybourgeois5235 Год назад

@@susiesweet8003 remember it well when I was a kid. It was so stinkin exciting.....

@johngreydanus2033 Год назад

And that was funded by Andy Dufresne and his partner Red

@robdog1245 Год назад

Jimmy Hoffa was probably there too...

@XenidRol Год назад

Great job as always!

@Erlinda60MixVlog Год назад

full watching for this lovely episode the special drain at the ocean

@nancygermain6924 3 месяца назад

I love when they drain waters, it’s so interesting.

@kendallkahl8725 Год назад

Like Mark Twain said. The coldest winter I ever experienced was a summer in San Francisco. I visited San Francisco a few times but when I llived there for a few months one winter it was miserable. They all probably went from hypothermia before they drowned.

@gnarlyhogg Год назад

it’s not that cold in August

@Peekaboo-Kitty 11 месяцев назад

@ThaSilentOne420 6 месяцев назад

Ppl swim this all the time . Google Diaz Brothers alcatraz .

@robertwall2548 3 месяца назад

Swam from there twice to San Francisco. It took me 38 minutes on a slack tide.

@FatehKurd-vf1yo 9 месяцев назад

Thank you very much for the good video you uploaded, as always 👍

@selectiveapathy Год назад

20:20 But what does this underwater landscape of the golden gate, have to do with escaping Alcatraz?” 😂 I asked myself that question after i completely forgot this was a documentary about the escape and not the bay 😂

@debrajohnston1790 3 месяца назад

The intelligence of some individuals does not extend to lower individuals. Case point.

@JW-jl8iq Год назад

The tour is awesome. We met a former prisoner in 1996 when we visited the rock. It was a awesome site

@junemail1773 Год назад

An*

@meguma Год назад

I love the dramatic way the narrator says DRAIN

@JustMe-gs9xi Год назад

10,000 times

@blackawana Год назад

Great show! Thanks!

@gamingbigfats3934 Год назад

All 3 survived! One of them was my grandfather. RIP❤

@DuperMate Год назад

They hide under the dock and the boat that does the shift changes towed them to safety. How did everyone forget this already ?

@alphadog1961 Год назад

I hope so...you have a Legendary Grandfather.

@drickbenn 10 месяцев назад

The other two were my grandfather's RIP

@mfz9208 Год назад

it doesn't look inescapable after watching this lol

@samueldixon6857 Год назад

Great show... Thank you

@Brandon-qn1ws Год назад

Met Bill Baker during my visit to Alcatraz. He was in the gift shop selling his book. Got him to sign it for me as well.

@priscelaprimo-navales216 Год назад

Thank you for studying the water beneath & surrounding the alcatraz prison. Truly, nobody could have ever escape

@chefaahz Год назад

Nick Diaz could

@pathologist..23 11 месяцев назад

Chef hahaha yep he swims it

@LSD97123 Год назад

the quality and details of those sonar images are what fascinates me

@MrSpeedyduck Год назад

If Nicolas Cage escaped Alcatraz, anyone can do it.

@mondrawallace4324 Год назад

Didn’t one of the guys who escaped write letters to the government!!??

@erinmac4750 Год назад

I wonder if a FOIA could be used to get any further information possible not released. 🤔

@robdog1245 Год назад

SF bay is my playground for sailboat racing. This is actually pretty accurate, if you're up-current of Alcatraz on an ebbing tide, you don't see a lot of movement, even at peak ebb. However, anywhere down current, you get slingshotted out the Golden Gate if you're not watching. We use it a lot to our advantage because we can get another 2-3 knots of boat speed with just the current along if we really try. Once you get outside Point Bonita, you're in open ocean, there's nowhere to hide, nowhere to run, and the only land until Japan is the Farallons.

@wreid4life Год назад

drinking game: take a shot every time the narrator says "when we drain the water" or "we get to see for the first time" hahahah

@peteygonemadarts4765 Год назад

Ironically being in such a small craft might have helped them . I'm thinking about aerodynamics admittedly but there's some similarity. For example my car is much smaller than the 18 wheeler I drive . Using the difference between the 2 in the winds leads me to believe there must be a similar effect between small and large water vessels . The smaller the drag surface the easier it should be to control or manipulate its path . I don't think they all made it but even as someone who doesn't gamble I have to admit the idea that at least one of them made it is plausible.

@rickm7371 Год назад

I've visited Alcatraz and it's location is very intimidating experiencing it.

@DianaKazimiera- 4 месяца назад

Interesting material 👍great inspiration.great respect

@VincentMayogi 4 месяца назад

It's not free per say but we do appreciate, they are paid per view like any other RU-vid channel

@AudreyLMcFarland Год назад

Growing up in the Bay Area, went to Alcatraz several times. It was always interesting. You do have to wear layers, becuase you will be cold, hot, wet, dry. As for the inmates that (DID) escape, well, if they made it to land, Good on them, but probably not. Still fascinating!

@cherylwilliams2787 Год назад

Ya I went there too. Remember they said that sometime in the morning hrs a car was stolen from angle island. Car theft never happened there but it did that night. Also Alcatraz was known for being un able to escape and they didn’t want to admit. Also they said that everything usually washes up on the bay and no. Human remains even clothes were never recovered. I think they made it. After that they paid close attention to men practicing swimming strokes!

@scottmoering9810 Год назад

I dont claim to be a professional swimmer but that distance from Alcatraz to the mainland is quite short. I could easily do that swim. As for the water temp, well I'm guessing that the Adrenaline that the body has during such daring escape would negate any major issues. Those guys made it ALIVE.

@alvaroq2024 Год назад

@@scottmoering9810 Great whites disagree!

@Peekaboo-Kitty 11 месяцев назад

@HWPcville Год назад

If John Paul Scott made it to the base of the Golden Gate Bridge wouldn't that prove it wasn't impossible to swim to freedom? The fact he was apprehended doesn't negate the fact he did successfully escape the island and swim across the bay.

@dominiquemarciano4162 7 месяцев назад

Perfect prison? There is no perfect prison. Anything is possible!👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@drgti16v 2 месяца назад

thanks for the episode, long time Bay Area resident

@oneoftheninetynine3953 Год назад

We went there on a 6th grade school trip all the way from Sacramento. Although interesting, I can't help but think there are such better places in SF to visit, what a drag for a kid's field trip. We were wet and cold and the tour guide was a former inmate who was scary and I think wanted to scare us straight. History was not fun that day.

@MarioMaccaferriRules Год назад

Next, smoking dope in Haight Ashbury, more fun for kids :D

@yaad2226 Год назад

yo mama went with ya??

@sail4free1 Год назад

And studies have shown since then that whole "scared straight" nonsense was a steaming pile of horse pucky = no measurable impact on the exposed victims -- traumatizing kids for no reason/benefit -- like Catholic school. :(

@gabrielamartiniuc6322 Год назад

I would have thought it was a cool trip.

@kevindunlap5525 Год назад

LOL, you had us at Sacramento.

@esesmmee Год назад

They closed the prison after the escape 🤔 with a perfect record?? Sounds suspicious.

@RGraw Год назад

Nobody ever escaped Alcatraz. Somewhere, the ghost of Sean Connery is punching the air

@josephramirbacea4243 8 месяцев назад

Appreciate much the clip and the science.

@steeldriver1776 Год назад

I'd get out. All I'd need is a rock hammer and a poster of Raquel Welch.

@trevmac8362 Год назад

In the novel the poster was actually Rita Hayworth but your comment is still funny 😊

@steeldriver1776 Год назад

@@trevmac8362 my life isn’t novel worthy. But it would make a good movie.

@breakthechains5140 Год назад

How do we know about the raft and what they made it out of/where it was launched if the escapees were never found?

@BalboaBaggins Год назад

lol even after 60 years FBI still can't handle defeat

@paralizerhvh 3 месяца назад

So you are the one guy that they have been looking for 💀

@dzymslizzy3641 Год назад

Those "sand waves" just outside the Golden Gate are responsible for the excessively choppy water commonly known as "the potato patch."

@jasongivens6749 Год назад

They completely ignore the fact that 3 healthy men on a raft could easily paddle to shore once they were out of the bay. They obviously rode the current and once they were out of the bay they paddled to shore. People don't realize just how fit and athletic prison inmates can get. The prison atmosphere itself causes very high testosterone levels.

@Peekaboo-Kitty 11 месяцев назад

I agree. They were excellent Swimmers and many have swum the path from Alcatraz to land and made it. The Police almost ALWAYS lie. The FBI had to lie here as well to save face! Google the article "The proof that 3 men survived their escape from Alcatraz."

@storm2000808 Год назад

I bet the escapees caught a ride from a passing boat or when they got close they swam in. The currents are not as treacherous as stated here (people swim across the bay) and the water is warmer in june when this took place.

@jdoyle4811 Год назад

Water temps that night were 54 degrees, I am a scuba diver in East Coast cold water as well as Carribean, Hawaii, Tahiti, etc. One needs 7mm wet suit for those tempertures and dry suits for lesser water temperatures. I was under the Golden Gate Bridge last week and cross currents certainly are treacherous. The swim from Alcatraz is 2- 2.5 miles to near by St Francis boat club, which I would assume only the best of the best would contemplate swimming and they would be wearing wet suits. These prisoners had not been in the water in years or decades and may not even knew how to swim.

@storm2000808 Год назад

I'm a surfer and scuba diver myself. I didn't say it would have been easy but it was the best time of the year to escape and all 3 were healthy 30 something year olds with a raft.