11.29.07
Oh Booger.
Yes, Mythbusters finally tested a couple of myths from the Pirates of the Carribbean series on their second pirate special this past Wednesday night. Nolanator, I’m sure you’ll remember the scene in Curse of the Black Pearl where Will and Jack were escaping from the soldiers. They took a boat, created an air bubble, and walked on the ocean floor with the boat above their heads, protecting from harm. Well, the Mythbusters put it to the test. It worked……Until they reached deeper waters. Once they did land on the floor of the pool, they were not able to hold on to the boat. The thing eas just waaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy to buoyant for them to be able to hold on to it. IF you were able to get to the ocean floor, which they weren’t with the boat, and then held on to the boat, you just wouldn’t be able to hold onto it. It’s just a matter of physics. So technically Jack and Will would have died at the beginning of Pirates 1, which means Barbossa and his crew would probably be somewhere with or without Davy Jones.
They also tested the myth that pirates could efficiently use silverware as ammunition to their cannons, as seen towards the end of Curse of the Black Pearl, where Ragetti was stabbed in his wooden eye with a fork. Well, that could not have happened. Silverware just doesn’t have that kind of accuracy. It just ends up shooting anywhere but at the target. Also, it doesn’t fire that well anyway. There’s just too much air going around the silverware to propel it with deadly force. However, as they packed several steak knives in a sebot (look it up), it propelled with deadlier accuracy. However, as you can see in the movie, that is not what happened. I know it was just a movie, but when you mess with science, science messes back.
