Ultimate Tsunami Escape Pod Survival Test 

There should be a strap holding the occupants head in line with the body. Riding a wave at speeds over 120mph with your body strapped in and your head flopping around loosely is just asking for spinal cord separation when you inevitably hit something solid like a building or rock face.

7:12 We recommend you install GPS!?! That's like a car manufacture saying we recommend you install a steering wheel after purchasing a car from us. Duh it should come stock with GPS specifically designed for the pod.

It looks kind of close to risking head impact against some of the cage, and the door should really be more on the top than the front, so you can get out better while in the water and not get flooded easily.

Everyone’s gansta till you’re floating out to sea in a giant orange with no one to rescue you

The battle is, by definition, over.

her face says "I'm not going into this ever again. I'd rather just die"

The ball might survive the drop, but the passenger I'm not so sure

by the definition. you survived

Can't believe they made the Absolutely Safe Capsule IRL. What madlads!

give one to porky minch, he’ll be sure to go crazy in there when he realizes he can’t get out

Seems like there should be some type of supplemental air supply should this capsule be caught under debris for a period of time and a ventilation port under water. Also, should you wear a helmet in there?

The real question is, what where the results of the free fall experiment?

Imagine being buried alive in mud and debris in that thing

I have the same design. I can help to improve safety. My version was designed for transoceanic sailors caught in storm force 10 and above. My version includes the following: 1. Air storage system 2. Navigating abilities 3. E.p.r.b 4. G.p.s and v.h.f It's a 4 to 6 pax capacity I am not a company, I am just a sailor with lots of experience in very bad sea conditions and decided to build something that can withstand any extreme weather conditions at sea for the safety of my family or crew.

I wonder how it would feel inside the capsule getting hit by debris and waves, bc she was moving a lot. Maybe it would be great if there was a gimbal system so you're sitting on a suspended seat, to minimize feeling any impact to the shell. Also, a suspended seat could minimize any swaying so you're always upright and don't puke from motion sickness lol. I'm no engineer, just a thought that occurred while watching.

Yeah, needs a life support system and why not have the interior punted on some type of gyroscope so you stay rapidly upright?

I have my doubts as to whether or not this would be viable even for someone who could afford it. But it's kinda cool to know there's people out there trying to work on these types of things.

Porky Minch: I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!

One can’t be opened. Master Porky is stuck in that very capsule.

$15,000 😯 I’ll take my chances with the waves lol

I think adding an inflatable flotation device to the exterior that activates from the inside would help. It would be positioned on the under side of the pod. If the pod is stuck under debris the flotation could help release it. It would also provide more stability on the surface of the water as well as lessen the force of impact. The pod would be safe enough to open once inflated and it’s floating. Also make it a fluoro glow in the dark colour to make it visible day and night and have a water proof map of frequent shipping routes and a gps and I’ll buy it lol

"The absolutely-safe-capsule broke!"

Perhaps the door should be on top, but a great idea for survival none the less !

It looks like you'll have severe head injuries in that thing, not so much space and your head can easily impact the pole in the middle and the frame. Also should make the side opposite of the hatch heavier so the hatch will always be upright.

But there's no steering or engine, just free floating. Could float anywhere, maybe a few years

That’s thoughtful of him to make, Hope he can perfect it

Lots of risk of head damage even if you're strapped in, especially if you get an impact on the orange that hits so hard it causes you to become unconscious. It should have a gimbal system where the inner cage is always upright unless you lock it in place. Also, I agree with others that the hatch should be upright, and there should be much more space inside to store rations and emergency supplies. As it is right now, it's pretty useless for 15 grand, especially without any GPS as standard.

Give it to an aerospace engineer to come up with a good idea but poorly execute it.

I've played enough Mother 3 to know where this is heading.

I think the first change should be making this out of marine steel. It would be cheaper and much more durable. The second change should be having a proper headrest. The third would definitely be putting the hatch on top. The fourth would be a life support and beacon.

Lmao imagine farting in there and you have to stay inside with the smell

This pod is indeed the stuff of nightmares.. Full commendation for putting up with it like a pro.

This 100% needs improvements and major ones. It needs what I think is a interior balancing solution? Something to keep you upright at all times and not being thrown around upside and what not. Think gyrosphere from Jurassic World. Because surely even if you’re sitting inside it and getting tossed around from waves and the current and then colliding at high speeds with buildings and debri, it would eventually seriously injure or kill you. You’re essentially sitting in a tumble dryer being spun around, thrown from wall to wall continuously. Not only that but there’s the exposed supporting pole in the centre. I can’t imagine occupants would be able to stop themselves from head butting that in tumultuous currents. In fact it looks like she nearly did head butt it few times just from those baby waves caused by the speedboat. Overall, an amazing concept and I imagine with a lot more work that this could potentially become one of those inventions that becomes a must have for people in tsunami danger zones. But right now it needs work. The only difference I see is instead of drowning, you’re at risk of being beaten to death from inside a giant satsuma. As a non-engineer with absolutely no clue how any of this works I obviously have no knowledge on exactly what needs to be changed and included and how. But from the very minimum I’d want to include that GPS as a default part of the product. Some kind of oxygen tank or filtration system or what ever you’d need to make sure sufficient oxygen is available for the occupants to survive extended lengths of time. Helmets for obvious reasons. But also life jackets for emergency escape (just because it seems indestructible doesn’t mean something can’t go wrong. Better safe than sorry). Also compartments for things you don’t want just flying around in the pod with you. Last but not least, survival gear. Built in GPS. Med kits. Water and food packets. Solar stills. Collapsible fishing rods. And all such an array of things needed to survive at sea if your GPS fails or something.

I just got major anxiety looking at this video give you props for it😂😂

The hatch should be placed closer to the top. When the tsunami is over and you are in the middle of the ocean you might want to open the hatch to get some fresh air or fire a signal. In this pod it's impossible cause it will be flooded and will eventually go down

Why does the door open sideways if it naturally wants to float in a way where you can't open the door (if you run out of air or to exit) without water coming in and it sinking(i noticed the air vents) .. maybe move door to the top. Also, flare guns should be somewhere in the equation. But seriously good on you great idea!!! Oh yea what about the bathroom room situation?

I love when he said England and then they show an image of Ireland lol

The man offered you a hand. That's polite. Don't refuse .

In real situation, that center post could do more damage than good. Imagine banging your head onto it when pod start bowling roll.

Great video. I came over from the CNET article, but as a lifelong marine biologist going out to sea quite often, the description in the article that read, "Outside, I can see the Seattle skyline bobbing up and down in between huge waves of water..." Um, that is Puget Sound, not the exposed ocean, and those were not even waves, let alone "huge." That said, cool tech. I just wouldn't want to be buried in mud and debris in a real tsunami!

the could use a 3dof gimbal to keep the seats levelled

The pods should be incorporated into roof building with ladder access.

I think this pod needs a 24-hour supply of water, an MRE (or emergency food bars), a life jacket with something to protect the head and (possibly) diapers for two people capacity, add GPS in stock (at a price of $ 15,000, a thousand more, a thousand less), as well as equip a small solar panel (for indoor lighting) and of course a light beacon (for easy detection at night)

Mother 3 reference?

This video is rad man.

Make it about 20% bigger and incorporate a ring inside that lets the pod and the chair move independently so the chair remains upright while the shell can rotate in any direction. Also, even though the pod may survive that large drop, the passengers would be killed! Maybe cover it with a Kevlar airbags that inflates before use to absorb impacts

Personally I would have designed a capsule that is tethered to the ground which takes the inicial impact and waves and then when the water has calmed you can release the capsule and float to the surface. Have an oxygen tank on board as a few people have mentioned to last a few hours or up to a day. I think most of the harm will be caused by being dragged inland and hitting object rather then the water itself.

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Very nice, why wouldn't you have the door on the top, so you can open with no water getting?

Because Porky is sealed inside the Absolutely Safe Capsule, the battle is, by definition, over.

How long can someone be inside before you suffocate?

Surely sending it down some rapids would be a more representative test than firing it off a waterfall.

You wake up after a tsunami and just see little orange balls on the beach

How long can you breath in those?

I imagine the whiplash from stronger waves would be something else

You know when you’re on a boat and you see those orange things in the river that got me thinking ARE THERE PEOPLE IN THEM 😟😬🙁

Another winner for this series! BTW, the pod reminds me of the presidential pod from 'Escape From New York.'

I wonder if you could just build something inside your house that would protect you. Or maybe a waterproof storm shelter. Eventually the water would recede so you could exit it.

0:46 WOW 😯 what a coincidence! I’m watching this NOW…a day after Christmas , around 8am. So crazzzyy

Let us all know when you guys do a real test and then post. Great idea.

Somehow it doesn't look like a good idea 🤔

things “designed to aerospace standards” dont really factor on surviving impact with very much, do they? really clever way to try and upsell the durability of this thing as if space shuttles dodge boulders all the time. i dont doubt it would survive space or high-altitude atmosphere but could it graze a rock at 80mph without rupturing?

Death in egg it's so cute.

honestly learn to weld. Do this your self for half the price. Make a system to store waste, like urine and feces. Elongate it to be a pill like shape. Add oxygen tanks, or some system to scrub CO2. Put food stores, and make a ball in the center of the pill shape that can freely move, with weights at bottom so its double protection, and you dont get thrown around. When massive wave is over, move to the outer shell. Would be cool to have some sort of hydralic arm system on the outside, so if you got stuck you could potentially move out from debris. Add a motor, or store paddles or a sail. This guy put like no effort of thought into this

If you have time to access your pod...why couldn't you make it to higher ground? Love the idea but it seems impossible you'd be able to access it in the sudden case of a sunami

Everyone`s gangsta till it turned out there are leviathans too

People with submarines: *oh, just a road bump.*

For an engineer of 30 years, this thing has a lot of problems

That is a brilliant idea and I will absolutely order one once I get settled in Washington state because I will definitely be within range of a tsunami

I would think that building a series of under ground tunnels that exit as needed 25 feet or so above ground when the water subsides would be a better use of money and time. I know that it's also going to require serious construction costs, but if you live in a low coastal area, and have no high ground to escape to... wouldn't that be the best option? This floating device needs to be able to survive a boat ramming, or a house collapse to be simulate what it will need to endure.

Is anyone going talk about, how she's going get out of Porkys capsule?

"While I sat inside my own personal nightmare..." LMAO

The material and labor cost of welding a spherical frame into aluminum hemispheres together would be no more then a couple thousand dollars at the maximum. So for him to say $15,000 is ridiculous and a ripoff.

Im not a huge fan of doomsday preppers, but honestly if you live in a area with a high tsunami risk, i would say this is worth the investment. Put a gps locator in it, a 02 tank, and a neckbrace and maybe a few days food water in case it gets stuck. I think thats a reasonable investment.

You are in level 7 of Jumanji, there is no escape.

I feel like they are gonna end up finding a bunch of orange balls with dead people inside... The New PokemonGo! Gotta catch em all!

The probability is that the Capsule would become engulfed by the tsunami debris field and be buried, submerged or trapped. It is preferable to have the hatch at the top and a gyro stabilized seat and cargo rack to keep the crew upright irrespective of the orientation of the Capsule. Crew should wear kayak type helmets and Nomex flight suits, balaclavas and gloves. Self survival equipment together with a GPS, PLB, Garmin Inreach and marine band 2 way radio should be included. Ditto food and water, etc. Self Extraction, Survival & Rescue should be expected, trained for and equipped for! The capsule air vents should be self sealing to prevent water ingress. These are a few of the points to be addressed in order for this to become a really viable tsunami survival system.

Needs to have inner chamber that rotate 360 so no matter the position the seating will always remain upright. Avoids being slosh & Rock around like an egg. As in this video ..

I don't see anything inside it that dampens impacts and isolates them from the occupant. If its all just rigid high-strength materials, those impacts will be transmitted into the rider and kill them. Same principle when it comes to car crashes. If the vehicle didn't crumple, it'd kill the occupants.

Looks like an orange

Imagine surviving a tsunami, only to be stuck in a giant bowling ball trapped in rubble underwater.

This would have been helpful with the recent situation in Tonga

Questionable design. If you had to open the door in the middle of the water you would sink like a brick due to the water rushing in. He should have taken his aerospace background and researched how space capsules land in the water. They have deployable inflation bags, sea anchor, deployable life rafts plus automated communication and location devices. The waterfall stunt was for show, no real data. A true test would have been to throw it out in the ocean during a cat-4 storm and see if they can retrieve it after it passes by.(even better if the designers were inside) I would also try to simulate the oxygen consumption of 2 people during that time. The writer is not wearing a self inflating life preserver either, not smart. What if passenger had to bail out?

I’d cry just being in that thing! Xx

I think a Paramotor might be the way to go depending on where you live. You can literally just fly away.

Considering debris as large as ships and large barges are frequently part of the floating battering ram of the tsunami, at least close to the shore, this may be a bit on the lightweight side. The pod is definitely better than being unprotected, but it would crush like a ping-pong ball if it got between large objects tumbling along. Being encapsulated also removes your quick mobility essential for climbing onto structures that may keep you alive, nor would I want to be in one if caught in the frequently occuring floating infernos of debris and/or fuel that can get quite large, and quite hot. I would think the CG would be overwhelmed with emergency beacon calls after a basin wide tsunami, if even capable of receiving it or responding to them. I imagine it would not be pleasant being pulled 30 miles out to sea, and possibly stuck for days let alone longer in one of these, forced to perform lifes daily tasks and survive encapsulated. The "test" she went through is comparable to lightly touching a persons chest with a feather to simulate being shot. Regardless, I guess in truth I would rather be in one of these if stuck in a tsunami, than in the water without. The only sure way to survive a tsunami is to be out of its way. I probably would only buy one of these if I were filthy rich. Thankfully everywhere I have lived only filthy rich people can afford the waterfront property where one of these might be practical anyway. As for a large impact mega-tsunami this would likely only keep your remains after being pulverized into goo from being diffused into the ocean, maybe

Is there anyway to control which way is down.. maybe could a propulsion system be added

Great Timing

exit hatch needs to be on top not on the side, need pump to take out water.

Mother 3 is real

it looks like the seating an harnesses need major improvement

Escape From New York Presidential escape pod

It's a fair beginning.

mother 3 alternate ending

So many questions left unasked

does anyone know the name of the music at 3:51 edit: I found it finally! its called Lacrimosa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The tsunami will toss that thing like a tennis ball.

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