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... and oceanswims.com
Ocean swimming... and sand
Ocean swimming... and ocean pools
Ocean swimming... and swimming caps
Ocean swimming... with jellyfish
Ocean swimming... in rips
Ocean swimming... with shark nets
Ocean swimming... in ice
Ocean swimming... the English Channel
Ocean swimming... training
Ocean swimming... in polluted rivers
Ocean swimming... with Beachwatch
Ocean swimming... in plastic pollution
Ocean swimming... on other planets
Ocean swimming... with flesh-eating sea lice
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