The Myth of Blowing Ships Sky High! - Mythbusters - S09 EP13 - Science Documentary

"It's kind of like trying to throttle a full size and very angry snake... Which by the way, I've done." Jaime Hyneman 😂

6:31 I agree with Jamie that being in a boat blown upside down by an explosion would be "Kind of upsetting."

a classic case of * don´t worry of a bullet with your name on it, worry about the hundreds with "to whom it may concern" on it.*

seeing Jamie coming with the gun is both awesome and somewhat terrifying XD

An M60 barrel, straight from the factory, would not be destroyed after a few hundred rounds. I wasn't able to find numbers on the quick but the barrel lifetime of common machine guns is typically stated as at least 3,000 rounds. Sure, in combat, the barrel is commonly exchanged after only 100-200 rounds of sustained fire. Why? Mainly because of heat, to a lesser extent because it gets dirty (fouling), e.g. carbon residue from the burning propellant and copper residue from bullet jackets. But those are usually fixable by letting the barrel cool off a bit and, if necessary, giving it a good cleaning.

21:16 "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day"

One other detonation that could be the cause of the 'being blown out of the water' phrase might be a magazine explosion in a heavily armoured vessel like a battleship. There's reports from the sinking of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbour and other magazine detonations of the ship 'being lifted 10 feet or more' by the blast, which makes sense if you think about how the armour on a post dreadnaught battleship's armour is laid out. The thickest armour is on the sides (the belt), with deck armour protecting from falling shot (and in later years, air attack), but practically no armour on the bottom and all the ship's most important or vulnerable components (such as the engine and the magazines) inside this open bottomed box. So if the magazine goes up, the easiest route for all that explosive force is down, and Newton's 3rd law of Motion accounts for the ship moving up (and given we're talking somewhere between 30 and 50 thousand tons of steel moving up, 10 foot of movement is a lot of movement). As an aside to this, the idea that it comes from submarine crews has some merit as well. Torpedoes generally strike a ship below the armour belt (there is anti-torpedo defences, but they work differently to armour plate and a lot of older vessels either had poorly designed anti torpedo defences or none at all), so a torpedo strike can have a better chance of hitting a ship's engine spaces or magazines etc. So, although I admit I don't have any solid proof of this, I can see the logic that they saw a fair share of ships being lifted up in the water by an explosion. Not flying through the air, granted, but still 'lifted out of the water' even if only a little way.

Really appreciate the uploads! Plenty I've seen already back in the day, and TONS from S6 and on I've yet to see. Thank you 🙂

I'm surprised a wiper motor wasn't used. Right speed, right action, easy voltage, OTS from a parts store

This has already been tested in full scale using battleships and aircraft carriers, in something called Operation Crossroads. It would have been epic if Adam and Jamie had replicated it.

34:30 the nemesis of every explosives gag ... who gets to go check the bomb?

In the Battle of Jutland in WW1 some of the British battleships were really flying into the air!

@44:49 "Your only supposed to blow the bloody doors off" (Charlie Croker, 1969)

admit it, we ALL want their job

You should call that machine "Robo Rambo"

What they don't do is try the boat from different tank sizes, only 1 size, so very hard to say half depth is conclusive

while I see Jamie firing using a bipod, I'm just waiting for the tripod scene... I don't think that is going to come however...

that explosion made my jaw drop, that was WAY bigger than I expected. No wonder the thing got obliterated.

Love the fact thay used a British frigate instead of a US one in the cartoon

"The boat has GONE AWAY."