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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.

-- Captions by vitac -- www.Vitac.Com

Captions paid for by discovery communications

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.