Adam Savage Answers: What's the Scariest Experience You've Had on Mythbusters?
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Length: 7min 8sec (428 seconds)
Published: Fri Nov 08 2013
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He is a really great story-teller
Wow. that was a 7 min video that flew by.
'Calm people live, tense people die.' That's a quote to remember.
The episode mentioned
Regarding the first part about never being censored...
I know the point of this video was that he almost drowned but the concept of being submerged in cigarette smoke car water really made me cringe. I used to work at a car wash and I cleaned heavy smoker's cars. You can almost measure the thickness of the brown sticky stuff on everything with a kids ruler it's so thick. One guy came into the carwash repeatedly but his car was coated. It must have made the situation 10x more panicky
I've been in a vehicle that flipped into a decent sized Creek.
I do NOT recommend it.
Edit - I'll put some of the details below.
Basically I was in 8th grade at the time and one Sunday my dad decided we'd go over to my grandmother's house.
We always used the dirt road nearby to make the trip because it cut the distance in half. It had been raining for a solid week so the dirt road was muddy but nothing too bad. We started to go around a corner at about 25mph and the truck just lost all control as we hit a patch of clay.
For anyone who doesn't know...Wet clay might as well be ice. As we're sliding my dad slams the truck into 4WD and puts it in reverse. But that didn't help, we just slid slowly over the edge of the road and toppled over into the creek landing upside down.
Here's where it gets fun, first off I never took into account that as all my free weight it being put on the seatbelt (I'm literally hanging upside down) that it will not release.
Secondly my dad probably being in a slight panic tried to roll down the windows so we could crawl out must not have realized I was still stuck on my seatbelt.
He tried to roll down the window but seeing as they were electric they rolled down about 6 inches and then stopped.
Water is pouring in and rapidly beginning to rise above my head so I reached for my pocket knife and in pure panic managed to cut my seatbelt. It was too late at that point though, I was fully panicked swallowing water etc...My dad managed to grab me and throw me up to where there was little air bubble and eventually the windows decided to roll down all the way and we could swim out through the window.
I'm by far the calmest person I know and that experience took me to a level of panic I didn't know I could feel.
That was scary just listening to it!
He mentions hyperventilating to help with holding breath as bringing extra oxygen into his blood. Isn't the point of hyperventilating before holding your breath to expel as much CO2 as possible as the CO2 buildup causes you to passout way before you run out of Oxygen.