I dropped an iPhone 13 Pro and a GoPro Hero 9 down 1,600+ feet in one of the deepest freshwater lakes in the world! The ultimate pressure test taken place in Lake Tahoe. FACEBOOK: / techrax TWITTER: / techrax INSTAGRAM: / techrax
At the end of the day it'll be simply considered as "water damage" but the person repairing it might not know the full story behind this "water damage"
I think if the phone was disassembled to dry the water inside it as soon as he took it out of the water, the phone could still work, in this situation its yes or no possibility but he didn't take it to a repair shop so it will die anyway..
Water pressure at 1600 ft is almost 700 psi ( pounds per square inch). For comparison the pressure in your car tires while carrying the weight of your car is less than 35 psi. It’s incredible that the iPhone glass was able to withstand 20 times that pressure without cracking. New respect for my iPhone 13 pro max.
The depth of the lake is measured in a straight line from the surface to the bottom. However the phone and gopro on a fishing line without any further anchor to weigh down will be affected by the water flow, thus it's not a straight line from the surface to the bottom, so it will certainly have longer lines
I don’t think the phone went as deep as you think, since the whole rig wasn’t weighted it means that it was able to drift with water currents. So instead of taking a straight path to the bottom it probably took a diagonal path which is longer.
If you plan on repeating this experiment, you could try to fill the GoPro camera and the watertight camera compartment with mineral oil. Since oil is nearly incompressible, it should keep the camera housing safe from suddenly imploding due to the enormous pressure at those depths. Furthermore oil is a good electric insulator, so the camera should just work fine when submerged in mineral oil.
yep lol however mineral oil being way thicker than air (and water even) will push the limit of when water will penetrate the compartment, plus if it does enter the gopro being mineral oil it won't shrot circuit anything, so that's not a bad idea !
@@syntheticblog9392 lakes can take a lot of pollution before experiencing negative effects. I use our local lake to dispose of my used motor oil and old car batteries and stuff. You can never tell it’s even dumped in there.
According to the footage where you sinked it from the boat, the speed of the descent is about 1.625 ft/sec. So if the underwater footage is uncut solid, it means that the iPhone's screen has vanished at the depth of about 276 feet (~85 meeters) (after 170 seconds) from the surface. Pretty impressive 👍
Nice. What could have helped is to have a side by side synced footage of the reel depth counter and the footage of the phone sinking. That way it will be obvious exactly what depth the key events happened.
The counter is connected to the reel via internal gears. What caused the counter to count deeper than the lake is, The diameter of the spool got smaller the deeper he went causing less line to feed for every rotation of the gears. The counter counts rotations and is probably calibrated for when the spool is mostly full. This explains why the counter sped up and exceeds the depth of the lake
@@JrbWheaton it is lol. On these automatic spooling ones (where it goes left to right) they specify an exact length of line (usually 2,000 feet on ones like shown in the video) They are fairly accurate, but I don’t doubt there are some cheaper ones that count the rotation linearly causing it report incorrectly
The reason the phone didn’t implode and the submersible did is because the iPhone had water inside of it which equalized the pressure. On the other hand the submersible had air inside of it instead of water which made the water want to fill in that space.
It would be interesting to see at what depth both devices failed. You could videotape the counter on the reel to get an idea based on the time per foot.
In fact, judging by the Apple logo that appeared on the screen, the phone worked and could have been saved if it had been quickly taken to the service center for drying and a little cleaning. If water gets inside, this is not death for the gadget. The main thing is to quickly get rid of the liquid before it causes a lot of damage to the wiring and contacts.
yeah if you can quickly dry the device it should work when a phone gets wet it would survive if the phone was dried as its lower voltage and as well water isnt terribly conductive unless salt water which causes damage much quicker
I wish I could of seen the phone back up to the boat at 100 feet down which exceeds most lakes in the United States where someone would drop and loose their phone. Great video!!!
The familiar sight of an iPhone as you slowly descend becoming the only visible light and then the terrible realization that your one beacon of familiarity now makes you a target of whatever unknown creatures lie in wait really makes this video something special.
I have waited YEARS for someone to test both a gopro and a phone with extreme depths! The results are amazing! 540m deep and the gopro housing is rated for 60m and raw gopro is 10m so I had hopes for the gopro with 2 layers of pressure protection, it did record for what looked like atleast 200m! And the smashed casing is crazy!
7:37 you can also see how incredibly fast it’s descending because of the particles. I can see how that GoPro case shattered. I think around half way of the video or before, you can hear a pop noise.
Cool unintended physics lesson hidden in this video. Super cool how the sound vibration of the fishing reel gets transfered down the nylon string so clearly. Utterly fascinating.
It would have been more clear to have another camera on your line measure on screen. That alone would have given some indication (Relative to video time) of at what depth caused each device to failed. I realize there were still some conditions which can't be accounted for, but data WAS lost without that reference. Both devices lasted longer than I would have guessed was possible.
First: that water is super clean Second: That depth counter was most likely not completely accurate since the slightest movement could have drastic changes. For example, if a pilot flew around the world, and they were supposed to go straight the entire time, if they were a few degrees off, they could end up in a whole different country.... or continent by the end.
The fishes are more terrified while you are pulling them up from the water and leave them to suffer a very difficult and terrible death with suffocation...
@Graveyard Spliff I'm sure you do. I like when things are were they are supposed to be. Roses belong to plants, not to vases and sea animals belong to seas, not to plates...
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Awesome video, wish you were showing depth in numbers along with the footage. Also a post mortem teardown would have been really cool! I mean, to get more for the money spent on the devices you sacrificed for this video
11:12 I see in the comments people mentioning curvature of the fishing line as it goes down and what not. Another thing I feel the need to point out is that the string can keep going, spreading out along the floor in any direction. You must've hit the floor and the string must've kept going and spreading around all over the place.
In the underwater footage, it did seem to stop for a few seconds before you hear movement again. which seems to match up with the surface video where he stopped it at a certain depth, and started reeling it back up a few seconds later. So I don’t know if it actually hit the bottom, since you heard it going down right up until he stopped, then started reeling it back up
Can you upload the full video I wanna see where it actually turned off was there any fish? And say hi to my cousin Alex Glad*** 😂 I also got some crazy ideas if you want to DM me
He cant show it off, you see the crack on the gopro's case? Its Possibly the water kill the gopro before its able to recorded the iphone when its turned off, they managed to recovered the video file because the gopro will automatically cut and saved the video before its dies, unless the entire footage will gone.
He cant show it off, you see the crack on the gopro's case? Its Possibly the water kill the gopro before its able to recorded the iphone when its turned off, they managed to recovered the video file because gopro's system will automatically cut and saved the video before its dies, unless the entire footage will gone.
You can see you had the flashlight on before you put it in the water. Surprised you didn't set the camera to record during this test. I would think the rear cam since it has the flashlight but after seeing the GoPro crack, maybe you would've gotten that shot from the front facing cam or set both to record at the same time. Well I guess there's the iPhone 14 Pro and Apple Watch Ultra to test next!
I’m gonna assume something, I don’t have any knowledge on this lake but I think the lake has no animals at all. Mostly, lakes don’t have fishes or such, including this one. I’m not sure, but correct me if I’m wrong.
I forgot this channel was a thing. Really surprised that his numbers are still doing alright even if he isn’t getting the views he was a few years back
