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Drain Alcatraz: The World's Most Notorious Prison (Full Episode) | Drain the Oceans SPECIAL

National Geographic
2023 ж. 12 Сәу.
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Alcatraz, the world’s most notorious prison, reveals its deepest secrets after the deadly waters that surround it are drained away.
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  • Pretty wild that NatGeo was able to drain the bay like that. I hope the fish are ok.

    @voidrf@voidrf Жыл бұрын

    • 😅me 3!

      @Yeshua___SonofGod@Yeshua___SonofGod Жыл бұрын

    • 🤣 😂 😂. Actually the fish were already escape last 1962 together with the prison brothers so it's safe to drain it now and other species are in hibernation mode so it's also safe.

      @ppmtrader@ppmtrader Жыл бұрын

    • There is an entire series of drain the oceans from them. Everything from the Titanic to war ships and so many other things

      @Knards@Knards Жыл бұрын

    • No fish were harmed during the making of this document

      @fernandopadilla9963@fernandopadilla9963 Жыл бұрын

    • They should do a documentary on draining Washington DC😂

      @fernandopadilla9963@fernandopadilla9963 Жыл бұрын

  • Alcatraz officially says, that no one has ever escaped our prison. What? What about those 3 dudes that escaped and were never seen again? The way I look at it they did escape if they were not in the prison and no one can find them, they escaped, However, they might not have made it out of the water and that's true, but they were never in that prison again. Those dudes escaped!

    @NJNinni@NJNinni Жыл бұрын

    • @@yaad2226 Oh snap a yo mama joke! What a comodian! 🚽

      @NoNORADon911@NoNORADon911 Жыл бұрын

    • @@NoNORADon911 yo mama miss them yo mama joke??

      @yaad2226@yaad2226 Жыл бұрын

    • @@JosephBloggs-jk5lv they did not hitched a ride they when with yo mama just ask yo mama about before ya say anything here yo mama know where they went cause after they escape yo mama helped them with yo papa yo uncle yo aunty ya all family helped them

      @yaad2226@yaad2226 Жыл бұрын

    • @@yaad2226 ?

      @JosephBloggs-jk5lv@JosephBloggs-jk5lv Жыл бұрын

    • @@JosephBloggs-jk5lv ask yooooooooooooo mamaaaaaaaaa

      @yaad2226@yaad2226 Жыл бұрын

  • Half the show was them telling us they will drain the bay 😂

    @bassistmike1987@bassistmike1987 Жыл бұрын

    • yeah, i got mad and skipped to the end.

      @JustMe-gs9xi@JustMe-gs9xi Жыл бұрын

    • This vid, quite simply, is horsecrap.

      @johnbrattan9341@johnbrattan93413 ай бұрын

    • FACTS, kinda annoying.

      @PeacefulPariah@PeacefulPariah3 ай бұрын

    • Appealing to the slow. Also, this was probably made with TV and Commercials in mind.

      @phbhf@phbhf2 ай бұрын

    • It's for tv commercial breaks my friend, this was not formatted for youtube originally.

      @townoftragedy@townoftragedy2 ай бұрын

  • Don't forget to smell the roses every once in a while. Time goes by so quick, it's easy to forget about all those little things that make life meaningful.

    @bgmrelaxation2664@bgmrelaxation2664 Жыл бұрын

    • Where did they store the water that they drained?!❤😂

      @lindalaw8368@lindalaw83683 ай бұрын

  • So informative.generally speaking, People who put KZhead to good use can really learn a lot of amazing things that schools never teach

    @sabarinath4524@sabarinath4524 Жыл бұрын

    • Yea that's kinda why KZhead is popular

      @Jay-jb2vr@Jay-jb2vr Жыл бұрын

    • Now it’s one of the best resources as a teaching aid when wanted/needed. 👍🏻

      @thektb36@thektb36 Жыл бұрын

    • this documentary is pseudo informative, entertainment at best

      @MicEE2998e5@MicEE2998e5 Жыл бұрын

    • Schools just teach you how to become a Working Drone for the Elite and nothing more.

      @Peekaboo-Kitty@Peekaboo-Kitty11 ай бұрын

    • I've learned so much more as an adult watching youtube over the years than I ever learned in school. Not to mention the way information is taught in school is so boring, I would have paid attention more if it was as interesting as youtube.

      @ville666sora@ville666sora3 ай бұрын

  • Several years ago, Mythbusters did an episode on this and showed that it is possible to get the raincoat raft across the bay to arrive at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, so it is plausible that the convicts did escape on the raft.

    @emmmkay9041@emmmkay9041 Жыл бұрын

    • S1 E11: Alcatraz Escape

      @CyborgMaMa@CyborgMaMa Жыл бұрын

    • yes and they also made it very clear that they dont believe the prisoners survived. they only concluded it as "plausible" because a raincoat raft would stay afloat in perfect conditions, which we already knew was possible.

      @disposable3167@disposable3167 Жыл бұрын

    • I am curious about how many rafts they built before actually producing a seaworthy one. Television shows have a habit of editing things like that out. Remember, the inmates had to do their escape in an untested prototype.

      @jamesmcbeth4463@jamesmcbeth44632 ай бұрын

    • And then the raft vanished into thin air?

      @BushidoNinja@BushidoNinja2 ай бұрын

  • Thanks National Geographic for the great documentaries. Getting it on KZhead is terrific.😃

    @dennisna8669@dennisna8669 Жыл бұрын

    • @Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Yet, you are here posting...you should be praying

      @theirmom4723@theirmom4723 Жыл бұрын

  • Frank Morris reportedly ranked in the top 2% of the general population in intelligence, as measured by IQ testing (133). The Anglin brothers were skilled swimmers and have been swimming in the frigid waters since they were a kid. Those men were smart and capable! Never underestimate the power of determination. They definitely survived, made it out alive and lived a lowkey life.

    @khemmarie1818@khemmarie1818 Жыл бұрын

    • Agreed. Athletes do that swim roundtrip everyday.

      @scottnathanphoto@scottnathanphoto Жыл бұрын

    • I agree with you

      @Rosie05610@Rosie05610 Жыл бұрын

    • I was reportedly going to hit the lottery, as measured by MY IQ testing. Oh, and I have been swimming in sub-frigid waters in my neighbor's backyard, since before I was a kid. So, when did you meet these smart and capable people? Tell us about your brunch that you had with them after they definitely survived and lived a lowkey life.

      @kevindunlap5525@kevindunlap5525 Жыл бұрын

    • @@scottnathanphoto LOL

      @molliwilson5639@molliwilson5639 Жыл бұрын

    • @@Rosie05610 Yeah. It's a fact. Search Alacatraz swim here. Countless people have done it.

      @scottnathanphoto@scottnathanphoto Жыл бұрын

  • As someone who escaped Alcatraz several times, I found this video very entertaining

    @soundXedits@soundXedits Жыл бұрын

    • Say what? Dets!

      @jets_4237@jets_4237 Жыл бұрын

    • 😅

      @nanasnickers6874@nanasnickers6874 Жыл бұрын

    • 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

      @king.g.7184@king.g.7184 Жыл бұрын

    • 😂🤣

      @lsophial@lsophial Жыл бұрын

    • Good for u ..

      @samdaymore3974@samdaymore3974 Жыл бұрын

  • With their determination and IQ, they used the current to get the raft further quicker. Once the got out beyond the bridge, the current let them go to get to shore. Just my thoughts. The reason they said they didnt survive was to keep the reputation of alcatraz.

    @engineer_07-present14@engineer_07-present14 Жыл бұрын

  • There absolutely were successful escape attempts from Alcatraz, now they may not have lived very long after escaping but they most definitely did escape the prison.

    @MarkWoodChannel@MarkWoodChannel Жыл бұрын

    • Yes, they did, but surviving is no way

      @aarongarcia1101@aarongarcia11013 ай бұрын

    • @@aarongarcia1101 that's an opinion

      @MarkWoodChannel@MarkWoodChannel3 ай бұрын

    • look up sarah thomas craig lenning farallon island swim over 25 miles and 15 hours in worst conditions and tell me a 4k ft swim from Alcatraz isn't possible or maybe even easy for some.

      @at20rule@at20rule3 ай бұрын

    • It's not a successful escape if you die lol part of the prison was the bay. They had to make it to land to successfully escape.

      @BushidoNinja@BushidoNinja2 ай бұрын

    • @@BushidoNinja everyone dies, they successfully escaped the prison no one actually knows if any of them survived.

      @MarkWoodChannel@MarkWoodChannel2 ай бұрын

  • I remember a report back in the 80's I think during a story about this escape, that stated that a family member of one of the inmates received a post card from South America stating they made it and that the FBI were following up of course there was nothing more from the government as they did not want to make these guys into some sort of hero or something.

    @kirktennyson612@kirktennyson612 Жыл бұрын

    • Yeah two of them were in Brazil.

      @Erik_The_Viking@Erik_The_Viking Жыл бұрын

    • That was fantastic! Good job Nat. Geo. I really enjoyed this one!

      @davidschonhardt4958@davidschonhardt49583 ай бұрын

    • I remember watching it, they hid out in some mountain and they found some relics from them were they were camped!

      @rosswoolley2854@rosswoolley28542 ай бұрын

  • The Booes should been put to test with the same weight as the escapees, along with their "partial" equipment. All 3 tests failed for not representing the same "weight condition" , for the comparison of what could have happened. Great documentary, thank you.

    @gabbyday7065@gabbyday7065 Жыл бұрын

    • Totally agree

      @esesmmee@esesmmee Жыл бұрын

    • not to mention that they should have tested it from the location they started their journey

      @LLC1776@LLC1776 Жыл бұрын

    • buoys*

      @beejereeno2@beejereeno211 ай бұрын

    • bouys should have been dropped closer to the island same as a raft being deployed

      @LeatherNeck-0331@LeatherNeck-03317 ай бұрын

    • And take into consideration of them rowing towards Angel island, or another possibility of them rowing east around the back of the island and use the current to push them closer to San Francisco.

      @1965Grit@1965Grit7 ай бұрын

  • Maybe they should have 3 guys with a similar build try to make it in a homemade raft using the same materials and see what happens.

    @scottkrater2131@scottkrater2131 Жыл бұрын

    • Right! That makes to much sense.

      @jets_4237@jets_4237 Жыл бұрын

    • They did and they made it,I even think Mythbusters did it

      @rayshowalter3531@rayshowalter3531 Жыл бұрын

    • ​@@rayshowalter3531 I remember that episode of Mythbusters.

      @snakefollower@snakefollower Жыл бұрын

    • thats kinda dangerous

      @KhrisWithK@KhrisWithK Жыл бұрын

    • @@KhrisWithK not exactly like the escape. They'd have boats to film it all and make sure everyone is ok.

      @scottkrater2131@scottkrater2131 Жыл бұрын

  • A boat without lights found near the Rock the night of the great escape, according to the local police, a stolen car and many more, could be the missing pieces of the puzzle of the true story about Frank Morris's team.

    @SotiriosBouzaras@SotiriosBouzaras Жыл бұрын

    • Plus the missing extension cord that was by the dock

      @andrewj9831@andrewj98312 ай бұрын

  • Love watching documentaries like this.

    @chris.asi_romeo@chris.asi_romeo Жыл бұрын

  • Brilliant viewing, thank you so much!

    @carrolmcdonald8611@carrolmcdonald8611 Жыл бұрын

  • 17:00 “The monitors show a strange landscape below.” The landscape: featureless.

    @drinaldi2000@drinaldi20003 ай бұрын

  • So cool, my grandfather was a guard there and was there when they brought Al Capone in. I’ve heard so many stories about it.

    @urmommabear5monthsago@urmommabear5monthsago Жыл бұрын

    • You should write them down and post it.

      @triciac1019@triciac10193 ай бұрын

    • Been in a couple of Capones properties here had bought down in Florida.. The Bay area.. Pasco,Tampa, Port Richey area... Crazy how small the world really is

      @robertmistkowski9879@robertmistkowski98793 ай бұрын

  • The 3 men who escaped are alive. But the 1 is heavily injured. They found a boat roaming by when they escape. They promise to pay the owner a good fortune. This is the story of my grandfather telling me when i was kid. He's a coast guard in the area.

    @SaevusMortem@SaevusMortem11 ай бұрын

  • Just ONE of my favorite offerings of the National Geographic Channel. A quality channel and quality UTube channels!!

    @pattycoe7435@pattycoe7435 Жыл бұрын

  • The ranger says that the three and their raft was never found, but they did find a raft on the next island over made of raincoats. I have watched many documentaries over the years that neglect this fact, yet then a few do mention the raft. They also found one paddle that the material was traced back to Alcatraz.

    @DrumMenace@DrumMenace Жыл бұрын

    • Law enforcement to this day wants the American public to believe that they died during the escape. They’ll NEVER accept or admit defeat. Those men successfully escaped.

      @peanutmansemporiumofrandom7472@peanutmansemporiumofrandom7472 Жыл бұрын

    • So do you think that they successfully escaped and survived?

      @damikey18@damikey18 Жыл бұрын

    • @@damikey18 I believe it to be possible. There was a documentary a few years ago that shed much light on a very plausible theory. There was a ferry schedule found in Morris' cell with the last ferry at 11pm, I believe. The inmates had also stolen quite a bit of rope and worked their way around the island to the boat dock, tied on to the ferry, and let the ferry pull them across the bay. They would have let out all the slack in the rope (150' I believe) so that they couldn't be seen in the dark. They grew up in Florida and that's the kind of stuff we do here (I'm from FL as well). The theory made sense to me so I do see it as possible.

      @DrumMenace@DrumMenace Жыл бұрын

    • @@DrumMenace Kudos to the men that escaped I guess one can only hope that they spent the rest of their lives doing good

      @damikey18@damikey18 Жыл бұрын

    • They were excellent Swimmers and many have swum the path from Alcatraz to land and made it. The Police almost ALWAYS lie. The FBI had to lie here as well to save face! Google the article "The proof that 3 men survived their escape from Alcatraz."

      @Peekaboo-Kitty@Peekaboo-Kitty11 ай бұрын

  • When my Dad was in High School he swam from S.F. to Alcatraz as a prank and made it within 100 yds. before being picked up by the U.S.C.G. Dad was a strong swimmer and said it wasn't nearly as hard as they want you to believe. Ironically my Dad later joined the C.G.

    @timreno72@timreno72 Жыл бұрын

  • The last time I saw the details of this story it contained the gem that the raft was found. Found on the southern shore. At the very least they find both ores, both vests, no bodies. It looks to me like they made it.

    @scinanisern9845@scinanisern9845 Жыл бұрын

    • They were excellent Swimmers and many have swum the path from Alcatraz to land and made it. The Police almost ALWAYS lie. The FBI had to lie here as well to save face! Google the article "The proof that 3 men survived their escape from Alcatraz."

      @Peekaboo-Kitty@Peekaboo-Kitty11 ай бұрын

    • Thank you for speaking the truth

      @traycwilson945@traycwilson94511 ай бұрын

  • The Mythbusters tested this story years ago. They made it to freedom!

    @ouchsp@ouchsp Жыл бұрын

    • Myth-busters… yes the final word… hilarious

      @GaryG63@GaryG63 Жыл бұрын

    • @@GaryG63 No, your the final word, hilarious too

      @johngreydanus2033@johngreydanus2033 Жыл бұрын

  • I love National Geograpic Documentaries!

    @keonikelly3794@keonikelly3794 Жыл бұрын

  • I really thought Alcatraz was a boring tourist trap, but it was the most interesting tour I’ve done, also after the tour watch the movie escape from Alcatraz, it’ll reinforce how brazen of an escape it was and you’ll recognize exactly where the actors were in the prison.

    @snowairland@snowairland Жыл бұрын

    • I've taken the tour twice - both tours were the last ones of the day taken at the end of October. While inside Alcatraz the sun would go down and you could see the city lights across the bay through the small windows while dim, bare light bulbs lit the walk ways between the cells. That must've been torturous for the inmates, to be able to see the free world yet never getting to experience it.

      @Tam_Eiki@Tam_Eiki Жыл бұрын

    • Never taken the tour even though i lived near by. But when i do i will have call of duty in mind 😂

      @cornfarts@cornfarts Жыл бұрын

    • night or day?

      @kristenr8311@kristenr8311 Жыл бұрын

    • @@kristenr8311 I heard the last tour of the day is the best, I went on the second to the last and it was dark when the tour ended and the dark added a bit to the tour, the s.f. Skyline was cool.

      @snowairland@snowairland Жыл бұрын

    • I finally gave this place a visit this past weekend after living in the bay area my whole life. Very neat to see. Dunno why my family never went or why I didn't see it sooner. The ex-prisoner they have in this document was there singing the book he wrote about his stay there. Deffently going back again!

      @YoungGun821@YoungGun82111 ай бұрын

  • I've read an article years ago that they sent letters and told them they had escaped and were still living.

    @annakinnard@annakinnard9 ай бұрын

  • Love watching documentaries like this.. Amazing Documentary, very detailed, easy to understand. Love it️.

    @user-di9io5uf5c@user-di9io5uf5c Жыл бұрын

    • it could be even slightly more into a detail. To me, it seems slightly more general and less professional than for example Air Crash Investigation. But still great!!!

      @MatejFiedler@MatejFiedler11 ай бұрын

  • I love how National Geographic does these programs.

    @triciac1019@triciac10193 ай бұрын

  • Mythbusters did an episode on this over 20 years ago and they recreated the raft and conditions and determined that they could have made it to Angel Island.

    @Wutzmename@Wutzmename Жыл бұрын

    • I believe Myth Busters said there was a witness that said a boat was waiting for them.

      @kaceykelly7222@kaceykelly7222 Жыл бұрын

    • S1 E11: Alcatraz Escape

      @CyborgMaMa@CyborgMaMa Жыл бұрын

    • @@kaceykelly7222 That was also brought up on Unsolved Mysteries as well. Could've easily picked them up.

      @Erik_The_Viking@Erik_The_Viking Жыл бұрын

  • As an airline pilot flying in and out of SFO the view of Alcatraz always gave me a few seconds of pause knowing all the mystique that surrounds it.

    @Kevin_747@Kevin_747 Жыл бұрын

  • So pleased i found this channel. Thank you National Geographic.👍

    @PRIVATEME2013@PRIVATEME2013 Жыл бұрын

  • fun thought...Morris and the Anglen's made a drill out of a fan motor. What if they made an outboard type trolling motor out of one, too?

    @forsakenr2907ify@forsakenr2907ify Жыл бұрын

  • Sharks were extremely rare in the 1940s. SF Bay had too much fresh water from river discharge. Sand sharks were abundant but are small and don't attack humans.

    @mike-sk2li@mike-sk2li Жыл бұрын

  • Amazing Documentary, very detailed, easy to understand. Love it.

    @user-ck7jy2hk5g@user-ck7jy2hk5g10 ай бұрын

    • There's one out where they drain the Great Lakes that's very good also..

      @1956tojo@1956tojo4 ай бұрын

  • Who else fell asleep 💤 and woke up to this and started watching!!!!

    @Funk_Reactions@Funk_ReactionsАй бұрын

  • I've been sitting here binge watching the whole draining it series for so long I had to pause It and go drain something myself.

    @greggamandabarkus4235@greggamandabarkus4235Ай бұрын

  • Our swim team does the Alcatraz swim every year. A swim from the prison to the shore. It is done every year and only takes about 45 minutes. Not a big deal.

    @billysmether6237@billysmether62373 ай бұрын

    • I admit to having no clue, but an escapee had to swim under the cover of darkness. Did your swim team get the luxury of swimming near the changing of the tide? A crossing during an incoming tide would seem much easier too since you're gonna come ashore SOMEWHERE.

      @user-vi9qn7cz4k@user-vi9qn7cz4kАй бұрын

  • Thank you National Geographic for sharing this series.😊

    @wilson5377@wilson537711 ай бұрын

    • You can be the first to sign up to be one of the 3 guys!

      @rion-cd8kg@rion-cd8kgАй бұрын

  • Thank you for the amazing documentaries!

    @AQUAMAGNET@AQUAMAGNET Жыл бұрын

  • Im pretty sure these three survived. Thank u National Geographic for this documentary❤

    @serenetamitha5244@serenetamitha524411 ай бұрын

  • Those three men didn't plan for months, pull off the escape and then all drown. They got away.

    @TheSoloAsylum@TheSoloAsylum Жыл бұрын

    • They planned not for months but years, The Anglin Brothers and Morris. The current there is unbelievably strong in SF Bay with Alcatraz located centrally plus the water is cold. I was at Alcatraz just a week ago on vacation from the East Coast and was my third visit. You have right to opinion that they got away but because they planned well?

      @jdoyle4811@jdoyle4811 Жыл бұрын

    • It’s bizarre that someone would think that is a logical way to think

      @MrShanester117@MrShanester117 Жыл бұрын

    • Perhaps so but the odds were against them in many ways as this documentary laid out. They didn't have the benefit of a "trial run".

      @johnc.8298@johnc.8298 Жыл бұрын

  • Like Mark Twain said. The coldest winter I ever experienced was a summer in San Francisco. I visited San Francisco a few times but when I llived there for a few months one winter it was miserable. They all probably went from hypothermia before they drowned.

    @kendallkahl8725@kendallkahl8725 Жыл бұрын

    • it’s not that cold in August

      @gnarlyhogg@gnarlyhogg Жыл бұрын

    • They were excellent Swimmers and many have swum the path from Alcatraz to land and made it. The Police almost ALWAYS lie. The FBI had to lie here as well to save face! Google the article "The proof that 3 men survived their escape from Alcatraz."

      @Peekaboo-Kitty@Peekaboo-Kitty11 ай бұрын

    • Ppl swim this all the time . Google Diaz Brothers alcatraz .

      @ThaSilentOne420@ThaSilentOne4205 ай бұрын

  • Amazing Documentary, very detailed, easy to understand. Love it️. Love watching documentaries like this..

    @user-vv4io2ch7l@user-vv4io2ch7l Жыл бұрын

  • I hope they got the fish out before they emptied the ocean lol

    @MrGrombie@MrGrombie11 ай бұрын

  • If they were able to get off the rock, by definition they successfully escaped. It doesn't matter if they died, disappeared or were later recaptured.

    @MarkovianMan@MarkovianMan Жыл бұрын

  • "...most infamous prison in the world...", "...most notorious criminals in the world". The writer's world is apparently quite small.

    @josephdonais4778@josephdonais47782 ай бұрын

  • Most likely Morris and the Anglin boys tried to make Angel Island (Morris knew about the tides and the currents and had planned for them), but ended up on the Marin headlands at the north end of the bridge. The Mythbusters did an experiment one night, when the tides were as close to the original escape day as possible... and they landed near Point Cavallo. It makes it very plausible that the 3 of them made it safely off the island, and to freedom. That part of the area was pretty sparsely populated back then, and the current would have taken any gear left in the water, out to sea.

    @AKStovall@AKStovall3 ай бұрын

  • love watching this! thank you for uploading!

    @vanessajaneescueta4762@vanessajaneescueta47625 ай бұрын

  • Amazing Documentary, very detailed, easy to understand. Love it❤️

    @ExploringMom@ExploringMom Жыл бұрын

  • MythBusters recreated this successfully. Using raincoats and wooden paddles, they left Alcatraz and made it to land. Might want to include this in yr documentary also. Alcatraz Escape MythBusters: Season 2, Episode 8

    @CyborgMaMa@CyborgMaMa Жыл бұрын

    • they only concluded it as "plausible" because remains were never found. they also recognized that it is EXTREMELY unlikely they survived, especially considering their belongings and the broken raft were found washed up and the men were never seen alive again. and no, the mythbusters did not make it to land from alcatraz lmao. it was a scaled down version of what could have happened. i'd recommend you watch the episode again because they make it pretty clear they don't think the prisoners actually made it out alive. they just confirm that a raincoat raft would've worked if the conditions were perfect.

      @disposable3167@disposable3167 Жыл бұрын

    • @@disposable3167 but you havent seen it i guess because they DID make it to shore. “The MythBusters theorized that the escapees used the tides to go to a different location. The makeshift raft crafted and crewed by the MythBusters team successfully made it across the bay and made it to the Marin Headlands. They declared it "Plausible" because the fate of the prisoners remains unknown.”

      @CyborgMaMa@CyborgMaMa Жыл бұрын

    • @@CyborgMaMa Lets not forget many people make this swim every year, there is a website dedicated to it. Just dont know if the escapees factored in the current.

      @d.thomson4265@d.thomson4265 Жыл бұрын

    • @@disposable3167 they did escape. They hide under the dock and the boat that does the shift changes towed them to safety, This was released years ago.

      @DuperMate@DuperMate Жыл бұрын

    • MythBusters is full of 💩💩. Stop believing everything you are told. MythBusters or anyone else doesn't know the weather conditions of this area that night or the Ocean Currents flow that evening.

      @Xpunkpro@XpunkproАй бұрын

  • I was in Loma Prieta in '89. Lived in Monterey at the time. I can say I never want to be in another major quake again.

    @howardpopeiii5764@howardpopeiii57643 ай бұрын

  • I love learning more about the Alcatraz so interesting

    @TheWalkingDeadZombies@TheWalkingDeadZombies11 ай бұрын

  • ''officially'' as if ANYTHING any police agency or the government asserts can be believed.😂😂

    @robbieg4700@robbieg4700 Жыл бұрын

  • Great Documentary. Major contradiction tho: They admit that several people escaped Alcatraz but stated “officially” its inescapable. If a prisoner “officially” got off the island and into the water, they escaped!! FBI need to update their records.

    @silvernblack7196@silvernblack7196 Жыл бұрын

  • full watching for this lovely episode the special drain at the ocean

    @Erlinda60MixVlog@Erlinda60MixVlog Жыл бұрын

  • This was facinating! Thanks for posting.

    @kb9847@kb9847Ай бұрын

  • The tour is awesome. We met a former prisoner in 1996 when we visited the rock. It was a awesome site

    @JW-jl8iq@JW-jl8iq Жыл бұрын

    • An*

      @junemail1773@junemail1773 Жыл бұрын

  • Imagine the escapees' grandchildren watching this documentary ! 🤣

    @terabit.@terabit. Жыл бұрын

  • The 3 men did in fact escape Alcatraz. Thoughty2 has a amazing video covering the escape!

    @NotSoTrippy@NotSoTrippy Жыл бұрын

    • As old men near death, and no punishment likely, why hasn't one of them come forward to revel in the notoriety?

      @johnc.8298@johnc.8298 Жыл бұрын

    • @@johnc.8298 just look up "Thoughty2 Alcatraz" the video should pop upp

      @NotSoTrippy@NotSoTrippy Жыл бұрын

    • @@NotSoTrippy cool! thx.

      @johnc.8298@johnc.8298 Жыл бұрын

    • @@johnc.8298 did u end up finding the video? if so what did you think?

      @NotSoTrippy@NotSoTrippy Жыл бұрын

  • Perfect prison? There is no perfect prison. Anything is possible!👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

    @dominiquemarciano4162@dominiquemarciano41627 ай бұрын

  • I love when they drain waters, it’s so interesting.

    @nancygermain6924@nancygermain69243 ай бұрын

  • Thank you for studying the water beneath & surrounding the alcatraz prison. Truly, nobody could have ever escape

    @priscelaprimo-navales216@priscelaprimo-navales216 Жыл бұрын

    • Nick Diaz could

      @chefaahz@chefaahz Жыл бұрын

    • Chef hahaha yep he swims it

      @pathologist..23@pathologist..2311 ай бұрын

  • They didn't drown...they spent the rest of their lives with D. B. Cooper on a tropical island, sipping margaritas. 🥰 🐚🐬🍍🥥🦞🏝🏖

    @susiesweet8003@susiesweet8003 Жыл бұрын

    • Yes i think they had someone pick them up in a boat !And they took off ! ?

      @robertfyfe6185@robertfyfe6185 Жыл бұрын

    • @@robertfyfe6185 I don't think we'll ever know but I would like to think so. IDK how old you are but with Cooper back then, America needed a hero & he accepted the challenge. 🥰 The Vietnam War, nixon, lack of civil rights...equals or surpasses living under trump. If you were to ask anyone except law enforcement, everyone hoped he made it. 😘

      @susiesweet8003@susiesweet8003 Жыл бұрын

    • @@susiesweet8003 remember it well when I was a kid. It was so stinkin exciting.....

      @marybourgeois5235@marybourgeois5235 Жыл бұрын

    • And that was funded by Andy Dufresne and his partner Red

      @johngreydanus2033@johngreydanus2033 Жыл бұрын

    • Jimmy Hoffa was probably there too...

      @robdog1245@robdog1245 Жыл бұрын

  • Swam from there twice to San Francisco. It took me 38 minutes on a slack tide.

    @robertwall2548@robertwall25483 ай бұрын

  • 20:20 But what does this underwater landscape of the golden gate, have to do with escaping Alcatraz?” 😂 I asked myself that question after i completely forgot this was a documentary about the escape and not the bay 😂

    @selectiveapathy@selectiveapathy Жыл бұрын

    • The intelligence of some individuals does not extend to lower individuals. Case point.

      @debrajohnston1790@debrajohnston17903 ай бұрын

  • Met Bill Baker during my visit to Alcatraz. He was in the gift shop selling his book. Got him to sign it for me as well.

    @Brandon-qn1ws@Brandon-qn1ws Жыл бұрын

  • What stands out is the use of the metric system by the USGS. All other referrals to measurement are in vague imperial units. Good doco.

    @deejay4922@deejay4922 Жыл бұрын

  • How many people have swam from Alcatraz to the San Francisco? Thousands! I've done it three times. Once for practice, and twice as part of a triathlon. Timing with the tide in and out is quite easy. This program is overly dramatic. Morris and the Eglins undoubtedly made it. And probably so did the other two dudes. I swam with a wet suit, but there were tough guys in our group who swam it without a wet suit. How many have swam from Alcatraz? Thousands -- every year!!! No big deal. AND, the program doesn't deal with the fact that there is an in flowing tide to almost match the out flowing tide -- there was more outflow because of rivers running into the Bay. But the tides go in and out. They could have been washed in as well as out.

    @TheFrogOutsidetheWell@TheFrogOutsidetheWell Жыл бұрын

  • the quality and details of those sonar images are what fascinates me

    @LSD97123@LSD97123 Жыл бұрын

  • When the U.S. Bureau of Prisons opened Alcatraz in 1934, there were cells for 1000 inmates, yet this prison never held more than 250 at any time. In fact, Al Capone was the sole occupant of his cell block section.

    @mcm28858@mcm28858 Жыл бұрын

    • No human contact,like segregation.They either feared him or disliked him or possibly both.He was ill as well,was he not.

      @alphadog1961@alphadog1961 Жыл бұрын

    • @@alphadog1961 At the time, Al Capone was suffering the after-affects of an earlier contracted STD. In addition, he had many enemies amongst the inmate population. Alcatraz Warden Johnson felt that for all concerned, keeping Capone in isolation (same as with inmate Robert Stroud) was the best course of action.

      @mcm28858@mcm28858 Жыл бұрын

  • Wonderful!! Can Nat-Geo drain the swamp in DC too?

    @Islandgirl2133@Islandgirl2133 Жыл бұрын

  • Great job as always!

    @XenidRol@XenidRol Жыл бұрын

  • I love the dramatic way the narrator says DRAIN

    @meguma@meguma Жыл бұрын

    • 10,000 times

      @JustMe-gs9xi@JustMe-gs9xi Жыл бұрын

  • thanks for the episode, long time Bay Area resident

    @drgti16v@drgti16v2 ай бұрын

  • Didn’t one of the guys who escaped write letters to the government!!??

    @mondrawallace4324@mondrawallace4324 Жыл бұрын

    • I wonder if a FOIA could be used to get any further information possible not released. 🤔

      @erinmac4750@erinmac4750 Жыл бұрын

  • Growing up in the Bay Area, went to Alcatraz several times. It was always interesting. You do have to wear layers, becuase you will be cold, hot, wet, dry. As for the inmates that (DID) escape, well, if they made it to land, Good on them, but probably not. Still fascinating!

    @AudreyLMcFarland@AudreyLMcFarland Жыл бұрын

    • Ya I went there too. Remember they said that sometime in the morning hrs a car was stolen from angle island. Car theft never happened there but it did that night. Also Alcatraz was known for being un able to escape and they didn’t want to admit. Also they said that everything usually washes up on the bay and no. Human remains even clothes were never recovered. I think they made it. After that they paid close attention to men practicing swimming strokes!

      @cherylwilliams2787@cherylwilliams2787 Жыл бұрын

    • I dont claim to be a professional swimmer but that distance from Alcatraz to the mainland is quite short. I could easily do that swim. As for the water temp, well I'm guessing that the Adrenaline that the body has during such daring escape would negate any major issues. Those guys made it ALIVE.

      @scottmoering9810@scottmoering9810 Жыл бұрын

    • @@scottmoering9810 Great whites disagree!

      @alvaroq2024@alvaroq2024 Жыл бұрын

    • They were excellent Swimmers and many have swum the path from Alcatraz to land and made it. The Police almost ALWAYS lie. The FBI had to lie here as well to save face! Google the article "The proof that 3 men survived their escape from Alcatraz."

      @Peekaboo-Kitty@Peekaboo-Kitty11 ай бұрын

  • Hello everyone, this was the best tour I've ever taken. The mannequins, posed, and if anyone go to the Bay, you must take the tour. 🙌🏽

    @user-vm5yg9xq7d@user-vm5yg9xq7d7 ай бұрын

  • SF bay is my playground for sailboat racing. This is actually pretty accurate, if you're up-current of Alcatraz on an ebbing tide, you don't see a lot of movement, even at peak ebb. However, anywhere down current, you get slingshotted out the Golden Gate if you're not watching. We use it a lot to our advantage because we can get another 2-3 knots of boat speed with just the current along if we really try. Once you get outside Point Bonita, you're in open ocean, there's nowhere to hide, nowhere to run, and the only land until Japan is the Farallons.

    @robdog1245@robdog1245 Жыл бұрын

  • They closed the prison after the escape 🤔 with a perfect record?? Sounds suspicious.

    @esesmmee@esesmmee Жыл бұрын

  • If Nicolas Cage escaped Alcatraz, anyone can do it.

    @MrSpeedyduck@MrSpeedyduck Жыл бұрын

  • Sorry for your loss Tyler,still ride`in .👍👊

    @georgecontreras5106@georgecontreras5106 Жыл бұрын

  • Great show... Thank you

    @samueldixon6857@samueldixon6857 Жыл бұрын

  • All 3 survived! One of them was my grandfather. RIP❤

    @gamingbigfats3934@gamingbigfats3934 Жыл бұрын

    • They hide under the dock and the boat that does the shift changes towed them to safety. How did everyone forget this already ?

      @DuperMate@DuperMate Жыл бұрын

    • I hope so...you have a Legendary Grandfather.

      @alphadog1961@alphadog1961 Жыл бұрын

    • The other two were my grandfather's RIP

      @drickbenn@drickbenn10 ай бұрын

  • We went there on a 6th grade school trip all the way from Sacramento. Although interesting, I can't help but think there are such better places in SF to visit, what a drag for a kid's field trip. We were wet and cold and the tour guide was a former inmate who was scary and I think wanted to scare us straight. History was not fun that day.

    @oneoftheninetynine3953@oneoftheninetynine3953 Жыл бұрын

    • Next, smoking dope in Haight Ashbury, more fun for kids :D

      @MarioMaccaferriRules@MarioMaccaferriRules Жыл бұрын

    • yo mama went with ya??

      @yaad2226@yaad2226 Жыл бұрын

    • And studies have shown since then that whole "scared straight" nonsense was a steaming pile of horse pucky = no measurable impact on the exposed victims -- traumatizing kids for no reason/benefit -- like Catholic school. :(

      @sail4free1@sail4free1 Жыл бұрын

    • I would have thought it was a cool trip.

      @gabrielamartiniuc6322@gabrielamartiniuc6322 Жыл бұрын

    • LOL, you had us at Sacramento.

      @kevindunlap5525@kevindunlap5525 Жыл бұрын

  • Thank you! Very educational !!

    @allysonfoster6622@allysonfoster66228 ай бұрын

  • National Geographic entertain and educate the world in a very good way

    @shimronnetia@shimronnetia10 ай бұрын

  • it doesn't look inescapable after watching this lol

    @mfz9208@mfz9208 Жыл бұрын

  • They completely ignore the fact that 3 healthy men on a raft could easily paddle to shore once they were out of the bay. They obviously rode the current and once they were out of the bay they paddled to shore. People don't realize just how fit and athletic prison inmates can get. The prison atmosphere itself causes very high testosterone levels.

    @jasongivens6749@jasongivens6749 Жыл бұрын

    • I agree. They were excellent Swimmers and many have swum the path from Alcatraz to land and made it. The Police almost ALWAYS lie. The FBI had to lie here as well to save face! Google the article "The proof that 3 men survived their escape from Alcatraz."

      @Peekaboo-Kitty@Peekaboo-Kitty11 ай бұрын

  • The guard looks like John Malkovich with a beard!😂 Great documentary ❤

    @missthang4982@missthang4982 Жыл бұрын

  • Amazing tech that can give us the mysterys of the past

    @reynaldoalcala8164@reynaldoalcala81643 ай бұрын

  • I've visited Alcatraz and it's location is very intimidating experiencing it.

    @rickm7371@rickm7371 Жыл бұрын

  • If John Paul Scott made it to the base of the Golden Gate Bridge wouldn't that prove it wasn't impossible to swim to freedom? The fact he was apprehended doesn't negate the fact he did successfully escape the island and swim across the bay.

    @HWPcville@HWPcville Жыл бұрын

  • Those "sand waves" just outside the Golden Gate are responsible for the excessively choppy water commonly known as "the potato patch."

    @dzymslizzy3641@dzymslizzy3641 Жыл бұрын

  • Great show! Thanks!

    @blackawana@blackawana Жыл бұрын

  • The lack of information on the escape made by John Patrick Mason in 1962 is disappointing...and the fact that he used his knowledge to return to the one place he swore he'd never go back to in order to help the FBI rescue a group of hostages taken by a platoon of wayward Marines is a whole other story for another day...

    @kevinwiles-assignmenteditor@kevinwiles-assignmenteditor Жыл бұрын

  • Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris were managed to escape this so called notorious prison back in the 1960s 😂😂😂. Long live the 3 guys.

    @its_karthi_yoo@its_karthi_yoo Жыл бұрын

    • They drowned.

      @DatsWhatHeSaid@DatsWhatHeSaid Жыл бұрын

    • ​@@DatsWhatHeSaid there's no visual evidence for that. They didn't find the dead bodies.

      @SebastianBrooks.@SebastianBrooks. Жыл бұрын

  • Appreciate much the clip and the science.

    @josephramirbacea4243@josephramirbacea42438 ай бұрын

  • NatGeo: Documentary about Alcatraz Me: I’ll evaluate my next plan for best rat spot for call of duty.

    @charlesmao7743@charlesmao77438 ай бұрын
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