Rolf Hut is a hydrological scientist from Delft University of Technology. Or perhaps he's better described as MacGyver scientist, attacking problems from different and interesting angles. One such problem was the infamous 1962 escape from Alcatraz, in which inmates Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, by tucking papier-mâché versions of their heads into their beds, escaping their cells through the ventilation ducts, climbing through an unused utility corridor, across roofs and over fences, before leaving the island on an improvised inflatable raft made of rain jackets. Rolf helped build perhaps the most sophisticated model of the currents in the bay area on the night of escape to look at the question of whether the inmates could possibly have survived the journey, and then tested the research in his own Mythbusters-esque escape from Alcatraz.
Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License:
Image from Rolf's page at Delft
Ocean swimming... with John Sheely
Ocean swimming... with Chloe McCardel
Ocean swimming... the Coals to Newcastle
Ocean swimming... in extreme environments
Ocean swimming... with Bold and Beautiful
Ocean swimming... and underwater forests
Ocean swimming... with Shane Gould
Ocean swimming... and Places We Swim
Ocean swimming... and COVID-19
Ocean swimming... and event organisation
Ocean swimming... and The Memory Pool
Ocean swimming... the oceans seven
Ocean swimming... and extreme endurance
Ocean swimming... with the wild swimming brothers
Ocean swimming... and wave power
Ocean swimming... and tsunamis
Ocean swimming... in poo
Ocean swimming... with whales (part 2)
Ocean swimming... with whales (part 1)
Ocean swimming... and the box jellyfish antidote
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