Preview | The Alcatraz Escape
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Scientists investigate whether surviving an escape from Alcatraz prison was possible.
Using innovative, 3D-modelling technology, scientists set out to prove whether it’s possible three inmates were able to survive one of the most daring prison escapes on record.
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Preview | The Alcatraz Escape
Preview: Season 15 Episode 2 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Using innovative, 3D-modelling technology, scientists set out to prove whether it’s possible three inmates were able to survive one of the most daring prison escapes on record.
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The most iconic prison escape in American history.
- It's one of these myths that go around for decades already.
- [Narrator] Now, a team of scientists wants to determine what really happened.
- But if you time it wrong, you just die of hypothermia over there, or sharks.
- [Narrator] Under identical conditions, they set out to recreate... - [man] Good luck, guys!
- [Narrator] "The Alcatraz Escape," on "Secrets of the Dead."
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Clip: S15 Ep2 | 3m 3s | What happened on the night of June 11, 1962 on Alcatraz Island? (3m 3s)
The SF Bay Model Shows the Escapees Could Have Survived
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Clip: S15 Ep2 | 4m 33s | The Dutch scientists visit the physical model of the San Francisco Bay and delta system. (4m 33s)
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