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Do not try what
you're about to see at home.

We're what you call
experts.

ow!

On this all-at-sea
episode of "mythbusters"...

Batten down the hatches

Because there's
"deadliest catch" chaos...

Whoa! Heads up!

...As captains
johnathan and scott...

We're going to alcatraz!
They set us up!

...Team up to tackle

Some high jinks
from the high seas.

Fingers out of the way.

First, adam and jamie
get knotted...

Killer loop de los muertos.

Oh!

...As they reveal
if an unraveling rope...

There he goes.

...Is a one-way ticket
to the deep-blue sea.

Oh! Oh!

Son of a
that's tough.

Road wave!

Then kari and tory stay awake
for science.

I don't like this game
anymore.

Can a pattern of power naps...

ow!

...Really let you function twice
as well as no sleep at all?

1, 2, 3.

Oh, he broke the pot!

Finally,
the team ends with a bang...

I'd like to call this
the crab's revenge.

...In the twitter tall tale
of the bomb-proof crab pot.

In 3, 2, 1.

Whoa!

Who are the mythbusters?

Adam savage...

It's scientific!

...And jamie hyneman.

Quack, damn you.

Between them, more than 30 years
of special-effects experience.

Together with kari byron...

Come to mama.

...Tory belleci...

Why are we doing this?

...And grant imahara.

Oh!

They don't just tell
the myths.

Oh!

They put them to the test.

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It's no myth that crab fishing
in the bering sea

Is the world's
most dangerous business.

I hope I don't regret
my decision.

But it's also a business

That's spawned
many a tall ship tall tale.

Yeah, baby.
Yeah, baby.

And to seek the truth,
two of their captain fantastics

Have set sail
to "mythbusters" central.

Okay, san francisco.
Here we come.

So, I hear you guys have
some fisherman fables for us.

Indeed, we do.

All right.
What have you got?

Well, first up, we have
what's called the killer loop.

Oh, I think
I know this one.

The crab pot's going off
the side of the boat,

And the rope that holds onto it
is paying out,

And if you step
in that loop,

You get dragged
all the way down.

Exactly, but the last part's
what's crucial.

We know by stepping on the line,
we can cause severe injury.

Right, but if you
get caught in that loop,

Will it drag you
all the way to the bottom?

Ouch.
Yeah.

They don't call it
"deadliest catch" for nothing.

But is it true that stepping
into an uncoiling cable

Can really see you dragged
all the way to the seabed?

Or is this a myth
that's on the ropes?

Remember this guy?
Little mini buster.

Last time you saw him,

He was seated in the back seat
of a polycarbonate car

Being smashed into by a log.

3, 2, 1.

Bam!

Now we're about to see

If he can get dragged
over the side of a scale boat

By a scale rope.

But first,
I need to build a scale boat.

Aah!

Yep.

Plan "a" is to set sail
with small scale,

Where adam's crafting a craft
with love.

All right, if we're gonna
be honest with each other,

It's pretty clear
that all I needed

Was a board with a railing.

But I decided to indulge
the old model maker in me.

I don't have to do this.

I'm doing it 'cause I enjoy it.

I cut out some spars
to define the shape of the hull.

It's looking good.

The deck, I wood-planked it,

Even though I don't even know

If fishing boats
have wood-plank decks.

I don't have
the heart to tell him,

But crab boats
are made out of steel.

I wanted to tell
the whole story of the myth

In the small-scale experiment,
so that's what I went and did.

I think it's ready.

The crabs go in the crab hold.

With looks to die for...

Yeah, I've gone
a little overboard.

Show-off.

...It's time for the killer coil
conundrum to cast off.

So, can you be dragged off
the deck of a boat

If you unwittingly step
in an uncoiling loop of rope?

That's what this miniature rig
hopes to find out.

I've got my miniature sailor,
my miniature boat,

And my miniature coil of rope,
which I will unwind.

How?
By releasing this weight.

This weight will go down,
which will,

Through the pulley system,
pull on that rope.

These are filled with lead,

So they have some momentum
behind them

So that when they yank
on the foot of my guy,

They actually pull him up
over the deck of the boat,

Theoretically, of course.

So, that's the theory.

Here's the practice.

Adam winds
a regular coil of cord,

And buster assumes the position.

Nice.

But will he be dragged
up and over?

All right, here we go.

Killer loop de los muertos.

Coiled like a spring.

3, 2, 1.

Whoa!
It did not grab him.

No, it didn't.

Contrary to the myth,

Buster's not even caught
in the coil,

Let alone dragged
to the bottom of the sea,

So the guys reset for test two.

Killer loop of death.

Isn't that
sort of redundant?

3, 2, 1.

Nice move, buster,
but it's not gonna help you.

This time,
the rope did catch buster,

But again, he stayed on deck.

Will test three give them

The man overboard
that this myth needs?

3, 2, 1.

Whoa!

Wait, wait.
What's going on?

Come on. Let go.
Oh!

That held onto him
quite nicely.

Totally did.

So, that time, the rope
did coil around buster's leg,

And it formed
a strong enough knot

To pull him up
and over the side.

But with this spring coil,

It's not happening every time,
by any means.

However, there are other ways
to coil a rope,

The most common being the
over-under technique, like this,

And so that's
what we're gonna try next.

This over-under technique

Is used on some fishing fleets,

But will it make a difference?

All right,
over-under coil.

3, 2, 1.

Oh!

Oh, little buster.
Ow.

Nice.

Right under the water.

Talk about a deadliest catch.

Look at that.
No way.

Whoa!

That's a clove hitch.

That's a right and proper
clove hitch.

There's no doubt
that with this new coil,

Buster's got well
and truly hitched,

And for the first time,

He's dragged all the way down
without a helping hand.

And once more, the four
following tests follow suit...

Up and over.

Right in the nuts.

...Which means it's time
for some expert opinion.

So, based on the small scale,

It looks like the rope
might just pull you

All the way to the sea bed.

Yeah, those knots looked
really tight,

Especially that clove hitch.

Well, so, now if we're gonna go
to full scale for added realism,

Do you think one of you guys could
curse like a sailor for me?

Absolutely,
you

Perfect.

Next up,
a crustacean cat nap.

All right, johnathan,

What kind of myth
do you have for us today?

One of my favorites.

You're not gonna
like this much.

It's about
sleep deprivation.

sleep deprivation?

Yeah. The myth is are you better
off staying up a full 30 hours?

Or are you better off
every 6 hours,

Take a 15- or 20-minute nap?

You'll be way more alert
and double your performance.

So, you're saying
if you take a nap

Every 6 hours for 20 minutes,

You'll do twice as good
as if you didn't sleep at all?

That's what I'm saying.

So, I guess we can call that
a crab-pot power nap?

In the crazy world of crabbing,

It's normal practice to hit
the deck for a 30-hour shift.

Oh, my god.
This is crazy.

But can a medley of micro-sleeps

Really let you do your duties
on the double?

Got a leak
in the engine room!

All right,
so, how about we build

A "deadliest catch" inspired
assault course?

It'll test
our reaction time,

Our coordination,
and our mental acuity.

Aha!

That would be awesome.

We'll stay up for over 30 hours,

Run the course,
see how we do.

And then we'll stay up
for another 30 hours,

Run the course again,
but this time,

We'll take 20-minute naps
every 6 hours

And see if that doubles
our performance.

This would be better
if you did this obstacle course

On a real boat,
because there's no escape.

This is gonna be
the worst myth ever.

So, it's anchors away

As the team clears the decks
to the docks.

This is the mako,
an 83-foot-long fishing trawler

Docked here
in the san francisco bay

At the california
maritime academy.

There's no doubt
that the boat's the business.

And here's how the assault
course is going to go down.

Who's the man now,
crab pot?

First up, hook 'em and cook 'em.

Now, an important job
for a crab fisherman

Is to be able to haul the pots
back up on the boat.

The way they do that...

Is they take a buoy attached
to a rope attached to the pot.

Then they take a grappling hook,

Hook the rope,
and haul it onto the boat.

Oh! Whoo!

Next is stop 2 at size matters.

Now, we're going to get
a crab pot full of 30 crab.

We're gonna have to size them and
sort them as quickly as possible.

Anything under 7 inches,
got to throw it back.

This is station number three,
the king of swing.

Now, one of the biggest dangers
onboard a boat

Is getting hit
by an 800-pound crab pot.

I made these out of pvc pipe,

So they're significantly lighter
than the real thing,

Because tory and kari
are going to get hit by them,

And it's their job
to avoid them.

But wait, there's more.

And this is station number 4,
the bearing sea.

Up here on the bridge,
tory and kari will be given

A course heading
and have to find it.

Now, it sounds like
a simple enough task,

But when you're tired,

Even the simplest things
become very, very difficult.

So, we're gonna wrap it up here
with stop 5 out on the bough.

Now, this is
the steady hand test.

You move this crab
along the buzzer.

If you hit the side...

...It buzzes.

I guarantee you
this is gonna get more annoying

As I get more tired
and a lot harder to do.

So, there's five
different skill-set tests

And two different rest routines.

Kari and tory can earn
20 points per task,

But they'll lose points

If their total task time takes
longer than seven minutes.

But before
the slumber games begin...

Let's do this.

...The guys first want to set
a wide-awake benchmark,

Where both phony fisherman...

good shot!

...Start with a perfect pitch.

Good job.

Size matters is easily sorted.

Man, they're all small
this season.

And king of swing
is no obstacle.

Okay, go. Go, go, go!

Good work!

While navigation
is predictably painful...

All right, tory,

You hear that the crabbing
is good in drakes bay.

What two major directions
are you going to travel?

Um...

That's where
we're at now, right?

Yeah.

I'm going southwest.

Southwest and northwest.

Both...
Correct.

...Sail through.

And with no shark
in shock wave...

Bet you've never seen
a captain do this.

...The scores are in.

And time.

All right,
5 minutes and 50 seconds.

It's my crab dance.

well, that's a crab dance.

I love it.
It's sideways.

All right,
how did she do?

Kari,
you got a perfect score.

Nice work, kari.

So, when wide awake,

Our curious crabbers pass this
test hook, line, and sinker.

But will they be so surefooted
after a sleepless night at sea?

It's getting late.

I'm not sure
how I'm gonna stay up.

There's no internet,

And there's a tv
from, I think, 1970.

But I do know
how tory's gonna stay up.

I found this on the bridge.

Still to come,
the team hits the high seas...

You don't get a view like this
on my boat.

...As killer coil unwinds
with catastrophic consequences.

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Rest in the northwest

Is an understandably rare event.

But is it true that a power nap

Can make you twice as able
a seaman as no sleep at all?

To find out, kari and tory

Must first stay awake
for a 30-hour shift.

Luckily, tory's got plans.

Now, we could sit here
and watch vhs tapes

On this black-and-white tv
to try to stay awake,

Or we could use this --
a complete entertainment center!

I got checkers.

I got cards.

You got a queen?

I got all kinds of games.

Whatever you want.

Kari's over here
making a collage.

I don't know.

Whatever it takes
for her to stay awake.

I'm not judging.

The whole point here is
to stay awake for 30 hours.

Indeed, but as the
clock ticks towards midnight,

They're barely halfway through.

I'm getting so tired.

To say it's a long night...

We should probably huddle
to stay warm.

I'm not that cold.
It's pretty good jacket.

...Would be an understatement.

Quick, get the net.
I got one.

But eventually,
dark gives way to day.

But it ain't over yet.

Wake up!
Reveille! Reveille!

Wake up! Wake up, maggots!

What are
we playing games for?!

Let's go! Let's move!
Move! Move!

We are going to do
50 side-straddle hops.

I'll count the cadence.

Yes, j.D.?
Make it 100.

Make it 100!
That's a beautiful number.

Ready, begin!

Deputy wilson
and his familiar friend...

Wake up!

...Are specialists in keeping
tired troops attentive.

J.D., what have we missed?!

I think you missed push-ups.

And under
their expert encouragement...

Are we hallucinating?

Down! Down!

...The guys go
beyond the 30-hour limit.

That's one and a half!
What's going on?

Kari and tory
have now been up for 32 hours.

It's time to run our test again.

Exact same parameters.

Geez,
it's bright out here.

Slightly different
navigational questions.

All right, let's do this.

We're gonna see how they do.

All right, kari byron, this is
your 32-hour test with no sleep.

You ready?
How are you feeling?

Um...

Get it, tiger.
Yeah.

Okay. Here we go.

In 3, 2, 1, go!

With the timer started,

Kari slings her hook...

Miss.
Not even close.

...But finds her coordination
has jumped ship.

Miss!

And miss.

Zero points.

Oh.

Size matters resonates well.

Okay.
Go, go, go, go, go!

But the ducking -- not so much.

Oh!

Yeah, she died.

She died about three times.

In navigation,
kari leads the way...

What two directions
are you traveling

If you start at angel island
and travel to point reyes?

...Even if she is
a little vague.

Uh...

So, you are going to go
that way and that way.

No.

Lastly, there's shock wave...

1, 2.

...Where it's fair to say
kari has a shocker.

all right. Eight touches.

Move on.
Uh...

Hmm.

Come on, kari!
Time.

All right, your time
was 7 minutes, 50 seconds.

Nice work.

Your score, however,
was fairly dismal.

The first time you did this,
you got a perfect score.

This time around,
you got a 27.

oh.

Wow.
32 hours really affected you.

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

With no sleep at all,

Kari scored well
in the mental challenges

But poorly in the physical ones.

And with a significant drop-off
in pace, her total tumbled.

What will tory's story be?

All right, 32 hours.
I'm ready.

All right, let's do it.
Here we go, in 3, 2, 1, go!

Like kari before him,
tory's first throw is a foul.

Missed it.
You can do it.

But take two takes the target.

He got it! He got it!

So, when a person is exposed
to extreme sleep deprivation...

Sort those crabs!
I'm watching you.

Sort those crabs!

...They experience reduced
physical and mental performance,

And tory's no exception.

Whoa!

nice.

What's interesting
is that unlike kari,

He did pretty well
at the physical challenges...

How many minutes
of longitude

Are between point reyes
lighthouse and angel island?

Point reyes lighthouse.

How many points of what?

...But really struggled
with the brainpower tests.

How many minutes
of longitude

Are between point reyes
lighthouse and angel island?

He not only found it hard

To understand
the navigation questions,

But he also took a while
to answer.

Uh, let's see.

I would say 10, 20...30.

No. It's 35.

And while
tory's steady as he goes

With the final physical test...

All right. Minus one.
That's great, man.

Oh.
Go, go, go!

...It's clear that sleep
deprivation has hit him hard.

Done.

9:30.

Oh, man.
That was tough.

What's my score?

34.

I had a bit of a meltdown.

The cabin bridge thing.

Man, those extra hours
really took their toll.

Yet while tory's
strengths and weaknesses

Were surprisingly different
from kari's,

His snail-pace speed
meant his score was all at sea.

But will a paltry power nap

Really let them both bounce back
on the double?

Still to come.

I'd like to call this
the crab's revenge.

A twitter tall tale
turns torpedo.

1.

Buckle up

Because it's "mythbusters"
meets "deadliest catch"...

Killer loop de los muertos.

...Where adam and jamie
have a myth

That's grabbed them by the boot.

Oh, little buster.
Ow.

The small-scale tests

Are making it look pretty good
for this story.

Yeah, but a heads up.

We rarely ever use the old
under-over coil on a crab boat.

Yeah, I figured that,

Which means
that when we go full-scale,

We'll start with a regular coil,

And then only
if that doesn't work

Will we go to the over-under.

So, what's the plan?

Well, I figure we need a boat,
a crab pot,

A neutrally buoyant buster,

And enough monitoring equipment
to make sure

That if he does
go over the edge,

Does he also go all the way
to the bottom of the ocean?

You make it sound
so simple.

It won't be.

To the captains,
it may sound easy.

I don't know about this.

Ain't no crab in the bay.

But the only thing calm about
this caper is the weather.

Well, our small-scale
tests were very instructive,

But I think it's time to stop
playing with toys,

And that's why we've come here,

'cause here's
where the really big toys are.

We've got a barge.

We've got our pick of tugboats.

We've got full-size crab pots,

And it's now time to see if the
killer loop works in full scale.

Well,
hold your steel horses, adam,

Because before that,
the guys get loaded,

First with buster.

Little does he know.

Then a pair of crab pots.

The primary thing, I think,
when I see those crab pots

Is I get hungry.

And finally,
a crab-pot launcher.

Bingo!
That worked perfectly.

Yeah.

Next comes the gratuitous
painting montage...

Isn't that nice and cheery now?

That's an experimental space.

...Which leaves just one thing.

Ahoy, mateys.

Permission to come aboard,
captain.

A pair of "catch" captains

Ready to see if this myth
will make waves.

That's where we're headed,
johnny.

We're going to alcatraz!

I knew it.
I knew this was a trick.

They set us up!

So, we're headed out into the
middle of san francisco bay,

And we're gonna find a spot
that has similar depth

To what a crab fisherman

Would normally set his pots in
in alaska.

That depth is around 200 feet.

You don't get a view like this
on my boat.

And when they find it,
it's time to go fishing.

So, we're gonna strap it up,

And we're gonna hook it
to this big crane,

And we're gonna put it in the
launcher and get it ready to set.

There we go.

Like in the bering sea,

It's suddenly all hands on deck.

Just get back.

Keep your fingers
out of the way.

Well, nearly all hands.

Luckily, adam's seasickness
sleepiness soon wears off,

So here's how this myth
is going down.

This is how this is gonna work.

This table here is called
the crab-pot launcher.

Now, the crane's gonna
hook onto this line

And lift the end of the table,

Making the crab pot
slide off into the water --

All 800 pounds of it.

And when that 800 pounds
of crab pot hits the water,

It starts sinking
towards the bottom really fast,

Pulling all of this line with it

And maybe,
in this arrangement, buster.

This is where we find out
if this loop of rope

Is, in fact,
a killer loop of rope.

Indeed, and thanks
to a special depth gauge...

He's ready.

...Mapping buster's sea trek
will be simple.

And adam, for one, is confident.

It's time for a prediction,
and I have to say,

Based on what I've seen
in the small-scale test,

I think it's pretty clear
buster's going down --

All the way down
to davy jones' locker,

If it is, indeed, down there.

Okay, we're good to go.

Here we go.

"deadliest catch" killer loop
of death, full-size test.

3, 2, 1, go!

With the barge
cruising at five knots,

The crane lifts the launcher.

There he goes.

And, eventually...

Oh, oh, oh.

Uh-oh.

Oh!
Uh-oh.

Ow. Ow. Ow.

...Not much happens.

Well, that's kind of
anticlimactic.

That is a little anticlimactic,
but that looks like it hurts.

The thing about ropes
uncoiling and grabbing your leg

Is that it's a chaotic situation

Where pretty much
anything could happen,

And in this case,
buster became a human chock.

And stopped the rope
at the edge of the boat.

Now, if that had been me,

I would have been screaming
bloody murder,

But one way or another,
I would have stayed on the boat,

And that's a result.

It is a painful result,

But the guys
aren't giving up yet.

Coming to the rescue, buster.
We got you covered.

With buster
delicately disentangled...

...The pot's hauled back up
for test two...

Everybody stand back.

...Where this time,

Our crash-test crabber
is gonna have a bird's-eye view.

This is
a pretty typical scenario.

Buster just threw his first shot
overboard.

He reaches around
to grab the next shot.

Oops.
Stepped on the line.

Killer bite.

He sure is
closer to the action,

But will he be man overboard?

"deadliest catch" killer
cable loop test number two.

3, 2, 1, go ahead.
Lift it.

Once again,
the crane lifts the crab pot,

But as it does so,
buster takes a tumble...

Oh.

...And falls out of the loop.

Oh, that doesn't look good.
Ouch.

He's got a nasty rope burn.

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

Ah!

And there it goes.

Well, that experiment
didn't go very well for us.

It went better for buster
than we had planned

Because he didn't
go over the side.

Got a nasty rope burn.

A couple of buoys might have
given him a concussion.

But the problem was
he fell over.

That's not
what we wanted to see.

That's not accurate,

So we're gonna reset,
regroup, and try again.

Buster's asked us not to,

But he doesn't have
a say in the matter.

Do not try what
you're about to see at home.

We are what you call
experts.

In
the "deadliest catch" special,

The mythbusters
are making waves...

Oh, my gosh!

...Because kari and tory

Have just had
a sleep-deprivation disaster.

Oh!

score was 34.

So, what's next?

Good news.

We're gonna stay up
for over 30 hours again,

But this time,
we're gonna take naps

Every 6 hours for 20 minutes,

And then we're gonna run
the course again

And see if that doubles
our performance.

That's the theory.

nap number one.

But with their first nap
falling just after lunch...

The mattresses aren't
very comfortable.

...Neither kari nor tory
is tired enough to sleep at all.

20 minutes is up already?

After another six hours
of killing time...

♪ 99 bottles of beer
on the wall ♪

♪ 99 bottles of beer

♪ take one around,
pass it around ♪

♪ 98 bottles of beer
on the wall ♪

Okay, enough of that.

...They hit the hay once more
but experience the same problem.

7:00 p.M.
I'm not remotely tired,

But I know it's time to take
a nap, but it is for science.

In fact, it's not until

They've kept each other awake
for 18 hours...

I don't like this game
anymore.

...That the guys finally do
drop off, albeit not for long.

Stop! Stop!

Was that 20 minutes?

And so the pattern repeats

As the guys do anything
to stay awake...

Mayday! Mayday!

We're going down!

...Before crashing
in their cabins.

Has it been 20 minutes
already?

Luckily, it's not long
before dawn arrives,

Along with reinforcements...

Let the games begin.

...Who are adamant that
this power-nap practice works.

All right, you've been
in conditions where you haven't

Had a whole lot of sleep
and you had to keep working.

What do you think about
this myth?

It helps me a lot to get
a 20-minute, 30-minute nap

Every 4 or 5 or 6 hours,

So I think
it's gonna be confirmed.

Is there such a thing as getting
too much sleep in one interval?

Absolutely.

You've got to find
that happy medium

Where you get enough sleep
but not too much.

And that happy medium
is apparently 20 minutes,

Which have just elapsed
for the last time.

Wakey-wakey!

I'm dreaming
I'm on "deadliest catch,"

But I can't wake up.

I've been up
for over 30 hours now

And have taken
about five crab naps.

I think the difference
is before,

At this point, with no sleep,

I felt delirious,
almost happy and jovial,

Because I was losing my mind.

At this point,
I'm really cranky.

I might have
maybe a little more alertness,

But I'm so angry.

Well, in that case,
let's get on with the testing.

All right, this is it
for the sleep-deprivation myth.

The moment of truth.

Now, for this myth
to be confirmed,

Kari and tory
have to double their scores

Over no sleep at all,

Which means
kari has to get a 54,

And tory has to get a 68.

Seeing their condition
this morning,

I think it's gonna be
pretty tough.

All right, kari.
You're up first.

You ready to go?

Yes.
I need another nap.

Here we go.
3, 2, 1, go.

First up
is hook 'em and cook 'em...

Miss.

...Where, for kari,
it's a case of third-time lucky.

She got it!

The throw and the retrieval
was textbook.

Nice job.

She remains sorted
in size matters.

She's doing good.

But this time,

She also scores well
with king of swing,

Meaning physically,
she's doing better.

Oh!
That sounded realistic, though.

I like this task.

But how about mentally?

All right.

Find the farallon islands.

What is the latitude
and the longitude?

So, that's 37°42'n,

123°2'w.

Correct.

This time,
kari's not just accurate.

Correct.
She's also fast.

You'd have to go southeast.

Correct again.

Go, go, go!
Oh!

That just leaves shock wave,

Where again, kari does improve.

Okay, go!

And with the time
way faster

Than the penalty point
benchmark...

And time.

Nice job.

...It's fair to say
she nailed it.

How do you feel?

Like really angry,

And every time I make a mistake,
I want to swear a lot,

And I get you right now.

I feel that.

Incredibly, kari
improved in every single metric,

And with no time penalty
to boot,

Her score was more than double
that of the no-sleep test,

Which is great news
for the myth.

With the course reset,
can tory follow suit?

All right, you ready to go?

I'm ready.
All right, here we go.

3, 2, 1, go!

Remember, with no sleep...

Nice! Yeah!
Good job!

Good job!
Excellent!

...Tory did pretty well
at all tasks.

Almost.

But what let him down
was his pedestrian pace...

1, 2, 3.

He broke the pot!

...Something that's not
afflicting him this time around.

From cal maritime
to point reyes,

What two directions
do you have to go?

And although he still struggles
with navigation...

From cal to here?

To point reyes?

Uh, no

...He's far from flunking.

Southwest to northwest.

Correct.

In the final skill challenge,

Tory equals his no-sleep score.

Yes!

And when he eclipses
his last time trial,

This myth is making waves.

Whoa, you're fast!
4:17!

we got a 4:17.

How did we do?

So, the numbers are in,
and kari, you needed a 54.

You got a 64.

Whoo!
Yeah!

Good job.

Then there's tory.

You needed a 68.

You got 81.

Yeah!

So, you know
what that means?

The myth is confirmed.

A little sleep
is better than no sleep at all.

Confirmed.

Turns out naps help.

Now, it's not so much
that you actually fall asleep,

But what it did do is it allowed
my body and my mind to rest,

Which helped.

I mean,
it kind of reset everything.

I was much quicker,
I was more agile,

And it was easier to figure out
problems,

And the results are
it doubled our performance.

This myth is confirmed.

Best part is
this experiment's over.

No more sleep-deprivation myths.

So far,
the killer loop's looking dire,

But not deep.

Ow. Ow. Ow.

Yet all is not lost.

Well, we're set up
and ready to go again.

Hopefully, third time lucky.

Third time's a charm.

We'll test those myths
for no extra cost.

We're about to go with the same
parameters as last time.

You ready?

I'm ready.
All right.

"deadliest catch"
killer loop of death.

The crab-pot experiment.

Let's roll it out!

Go!

The crane
lifts the pot and adam's hopes.

Here it goes.

Buster's going down.

Oh!

But will it be
third time's the charm?

Here we go.

Oh!

Oh! Whoa! Whoa!
Look at this!

Taking his leg off!
No, no! Wait! Aah!

I'll stop.

Despite causing
severe leg trauma,

Buster is once again
staying on deck.

Son of a
that's tough.

No

Buster may look stupid,

But he's actually
quite the cunning devil.

He keeps grabbing ahold of
the boat one way or another,

And we can't get him
to get in the water.

What are you gonna do?

The good news
is that on every test,

Buster is being caught
by the coil.

The bad news is
that he's never gone overboard,

At least not yet.

Buster is pretty tough.

We've already seen him
endure abuse from these ropes

That would tear a normal human's
limbs clean off,

And yet he still hasn't gone
up and over the side.

We still believe
this is feasible,

Based on our small-scale test,

So we've set him
in a different position,

Looking over the railing
as the crab pot goes in.

Here we go.

"deadliest catch"
killer loop of death.

Crab pot goes in the water
and hopefully buster, too.

3, 2, 1, go!

Come on, buster.

Come on!

Despite the encouragement...

You can do it.

...There's a hitch.
Uh-oh.

And it's not the clove hitch
they're looking for.

We're 100%.

We're totally,
totally, 100%

how'd that happen?

One thing we have shown is
that it doesn't take much

For that rope to get a good bite
on somebody's leg.

Apparently,
going overboard, though,

Is a little bit more difficult,

So we're gonna give it
another go.

With the sun setting,

There's time
for one final fling.

All right. Here we go.

Killer loop of death
up and over the side.

Buster going to davy jones'
locker in 3, 2, 1, go!

The pot's set to plunge.

Will buster finally follow suit?

Oh, oh, oh, oh!

Oh!

Whoa!

At last, he's up and over...

Okay, time for the buoys.

...Closely followed by the rest
of the crab-pot paraphernalia.

Buster went over! Yeah!

Yeah!

You guys are exalting at what
would be the worst day --

The worst day
of our lives.

But despite the celebration,

Getting grabbed
is only half the story.

What's more important is seeing
if buster went all the way down.

And to find out just that,
once they're alongside,

The team must haul him back
from the brink.

There he is.

You know, with him attached
to the rope there,

I don't need to see
his depth gauge.

I know that
he went all the way down.

No, the cage
is just under the water.

We know that rope bit onto him,
and it never let go.

It's a nasty way to go.
Ow.

Here's how this went down.

Buster, standing at the ledge
of the fishing boat

With his foot accidentally
in a loop of rope.

The crab pot
going into the drink

And taking its line with it.

Its line accidentally wrapping
around buster's left leg,

Where he pinned
against the railing

For just a second until...

He was sucked through

What must have been
the tiniest of openings

At an incredible speed
all the way to the bottom.

In fact, buster went
100 feet under the water,

And when we pulled
the crab cage out,

He was still
attached to the line.

Doesn't get much neater
than that.

Indeed,
with the knot holding fast,

The 800-pound crab pot
sunk like a stone,

Taking buster to the seabed.

So, while the killer loop may
not always haul you overboard,

If it does, you're going
all the way to rock bottom.

Well, gentlemen,
I can't tell you enough

How much we appreciated
your presence here today.

You are
honorary mythbusters.

It was a nasty job.
But it was well done.

Watch where you put your feet
on your boats, all right?

Let's get
out of here.

Out west in the bering sea...

Watch out, porter.
Watch out!

Watch out!
Watch out! Watch out!

...Mother nature can be
a wicked witch.

We only have to go through
the gear 1 1/2 more times.

In san francisco,
not so much.

But on the plus side...

We pause briefly from our
regularly scheduled program

To bring you,

For the first time ever
on a "mythbusters" program,

Double rainbow
all the way down.

Myth confirmed.

In the "deadliest catch"
special...

...It's time for the one
that nearly got away.

All right, so, it looks like
this myth is confirmed.

You can double
your performance

If you take 20-minute power naps
every 6 hours.

Confirmed.

All right, so, is that it?

Are you headed
back north?

No.

Remember
a little twitter banter

We had going on
a couple months ago?

About blowing up
a crab pot?

That's right.

We told them that if they
brought a crab pot down,

We would
blow it up for them,

'cause they didn't think
we could do it.

We just happen to have
a crab pot

Out in the back of a truck
in the parking lot.

We come prepared.

So, you want
to test the myth

That a crab pot is
indestructible?

Absolutely.

Well, we could
sit here and talk about it,

Or we could go
out to the bomb range and do it.

Let's go out to the bomb range
and do it.

So, once upon a time
in the west,

It's the mythbusters...

Versus the captains...

...In the twitter tall tale
of the explosive-proof crab pot.

Ew.
That's disgusting.

So, this is
one of the actual crab pots

From johnathan's boat,
and this thing is a brute.

It measures
7 by 7 by 3 feet tall

And weighs 800 pounds.

I got to say, seeing this thing
up close and personal,

It's damn tough.

Damn tough, it is.

They're not gonna know
what hit them.

But will a three-pound payload
of c4 spell disaster?

I'd like to call this
the crab's revenge.

Well, johnathan thinks not.

I don't know
if this is scientific or not,

But there's two reasons why
I'm gonna win this bet.

Number one, we beat the heck
out of these pots all year long,

And we never lost one yet.

Number two, it's 90% air.

There's nothing
that will restrict the blast.

Basically, they're gonna be
buying me crab dinner tonight.

With fire in the hole...

All right.
That's looks good.

...And dinner on the line,
as well as pride,

Best to clarify the rules.

Now, before we get
down to business,

There's just one more thing
we need to clarify,

And that is our definition
of "indestructible."

Look,
we know the webbing's gonna be

Blown out of the pot,
but the steel will stay intact.

There will be no damage done
to the steel.

Okay,
I'll give you the web,

But if one weld breaks,
if one arm is severed,

Myth busted,
and you are buying dinner.

Oh, you're dreaming.

The fighting talk's ready
to rumble,

So let's make room
for the boom.

Fire in the hole!

I always wanted
to do that.

Oh, yeah.

This is three pounds of c4
on an indestructible crab pot.

In three, two...

Anybody seen my hat?

Right there.
...One!

Whoa!

That was awesome!

I think
we still got a crab pot.

You're gonna be
buying some dinner tonight.

Wait, wait, wait.
Let's go take a closer look.

We don't know.

There could be
a weld broken on that.

Yeah,
but your hat's gone.

It's hats off to the crab pot
as it survives

The three-pound percussion
completely intact --

No broken steel,
no sheared welds,

And even the webbing's still
mostly in place.

But tory's not throwing in
the towel just yet.

I'm a little disappointed.

I'll be honest.
I'm a lot disappointed.

Three pounds of c4 did not make
the crab pot disappear.

Now, we did make
his hat disappear,

But, anyway,
it's all about the crab pot.

Whatever!

We're gonna retry this

Because we may have
leveled the playing field

Just a little too much.

This time, we're gonna
strategically place the c4

And see if we can do some damage
to that crab pot.

I ain't buying
those guys dinner.

So, for test two...

Perfect.

...Tory's splitting the payload
into three.

And this time, he's secured it
straight on the struts.

Okay, it's your turn.

Okay,
test number two,

And I don't know
why we're doing this.

We already won
the bet.

Three, two, one.

Oh!

Wait. Wait. Wait.

Holy smokes.

This time,
it's not immediately clear

What's happened,

And for once,
the high-speed doesn't help,

So the guys go in
for a closer look...

Can't believe it!

That is
what I'm talking about!

...Where it's good news
for the mythbusters

And bad news for the pot.

This crab pot flipped.

We had the charges
underneath.

Look at how much damage was done
to the corners.

I got to tell you,
I am impressed.

I didn't think
it could be done.

I can't believe the damage
you did to this crab pot.

Wow!

All right, judge,
who's buying dinner?

All right, well,
by the definition

That we set forth
ahead of time,

This crab pot is
not indestructible.

Yeah!

You own them dinner.

Luckily for you, gentlemen,

I know some really expensive,
delicious places.

And I'm hungry.

Oh, boy.

Next week
on "deadliest catch"...

Greenhorns
from san francisco.

Yeah.