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"Result?" Jamie noted. "If the car hits you, the 'vacuum' is the least of your problems. You're a pancake." Phase 2: The Forest Fire Drop

The crane released. Two tons of steel plummeted, hitting the water with a thunderous crack . The car didn't just sink; it pancaked, sending a geyser of white foam fifty feet into the air. When the silt cleared, they dove down to find Buster. He wasn't trapped under a "cap"; he was flattened against the lake bed. Watch Mythbusters S03e02 Scuba Diver And Car Ca...

Next, they moved to the big guns: the aerial scoop. They needed to see if a firefighting "Super Scooper" plane could actually inhale a human being through its intake valves. "Result

"The myth is simple," Adam said, his eyes gleaming behind his spectacles. "A scuba diver, minding his own business in a lake, gets scooped up by a low-flying firefighting plane and dumped directly onto a forest fire." Two tons of steel plummeted, hitting the water