Having done SCUBA training, you are trained to operate without a mask on. If you keep your nose pointed down, you should be ok. But it is still an unnerving feeling. Regardless. Major props to Hamster for going through with this.
Destin from Smarter Every Day did a video on water landings in helicopters where he talks about his SCUBA training not totally preparing him for that, since the heli wants to go upside down - when that happens, your sinuses will fill up even if you have a regulator in and it's a massive mental block
Mythbusters did an episode of this and then revisited the issue in a later one as well. Turns out it's a lot worse under real world conditions when the car might turn over multiple times during descent. In addition, the car Adam was in was a smoker's car and all that nicotine gunk made the water brown and murky, as well as biting into his eyes. New nightmare unlocked. My takeaway from this: Don't be there in the first place. Drive safely.
Protip: the prongs of your removable headrest are tapered at the ends like that specifically so they can be used to break a window in an emergency. Slip your headrest off and leather the window with it as quickly as possible. Don't rely on being able to open a door in this kind of situation - more have died than haven't trying. Seatbelt off, headrest off, batter the window to bits, and get the fuck out of the car. Don't hang around.
You’ll never get enough force to do that underwater with a headrest. Some headrests are a pain in the backside to get off anyway. Try doing that underwater and you’ll already be dead
There was an accident in the Amazon where a bus crashed into the water (think the driver fell asleep). Some people were devoured by piranhas. Now, that is the stuff of nightmares.
If the electronics still work, you have to start opening the window while it's going down. The car will flood much quicker, even a small air pocket stuck somewhere will make it immensely hard to open the door. Modern cars seal so well you'll be waiting ages for the car to completely flood inside, but there's a risk your electronics won't work. My friend's dad got sideswiped and knocked into a lake off a low bridge and the fact that he always drove with a window a little bit open meant it flooded so fast he got the door open quick. The driver side tipped down first though, so he had to get out from under the car. Navy pilots train for this with a helmet on, a blacked out visor, in the dark, and upside down. My friend's dad rode Army helicopters in Vietnam and they didn't do that training for them!
The Vauxhall Carlton always brings me to this video. The Vauxhall Carlton was one of a long line of old cars from my early childhood. I used to see loads them when I was growing up. Most of the ones I saw on the road were the mk3, in gold, in beige, in silver, in grey and only a handful of them were red. This Top Gear test is a classic.
If you live in an area with large bodies of water, the best advice I can give you is to have multiple options of escape. Yes, opening the door as quickly as possible is a good idea, but chances are that you’ll be stunned for a few seconds from the impact of hitting the water. In that case, you want a center punch or something like that in your glovebox to smash out the window. That way you can either open the door more easily, or it prevents the pressure from locking you in as long. Remember, the small cuts you get from broken glass are far more preferable to drowning.
alot of people dont know, the headrests actually come off so you can break glass to escape a car in water because you only have seconds to escape, also if you can get yourself to the back of the car that would be better because the engine is the heaviest in the front
Maybe the Engine is heavy but the trunk full of water weight more than every engine... this is why cars drown faster on the back.. not on the front.... its only need a few Mili Secounds for the water to fill up in the Trunk and no Trunk on any car is Water Proof when it is in the Water !!
Yeah I noticed that 😅 Still pretty obsolete, even back in circa 2005. Most likely just hanging around from the decade previously as "it did the job", much like you could imagine a similar place today having a few videos still on disc based media 🫠
2 thing I feel like to point out A. the car the team used has a sunroof , so it's also possible to just climb out from it. B.the third choice of quick pressure balance is to roll down all of windows (including sunroof) as soon as possible to let the water rushing , make the car an open box instead of a leaking box , therefore since there isn't a outside or inside any more , the water pressure difference is gone , and will be able to open the door quicker and easier.
Hammond tried to open the window and it didn't work. The electronics had been fried. This is why it's important to carry something that can easily punch through the glass of a windshield.
This would probably have been from around the time of the Richard Hillman demise storyline in Coronation Street. Maybe they should have got Richard’s actor in on the star 💫 in a reasonably priced car slot on this program. Jeramy would have been gas 😊
Would be alot more tricky to know what to do if you had children strapped in in the back. Plus your own seatbelt to faff about with could delay you by a few seconds even if you were on your own
It's so scary that how many people still hold this false belief that you should wait for the car to be filled with water before you open the door and get out.
This is upsetting. What the f*ck are we doing promoting the whole "wait for the car to fill up" thing, then? Jesus Christ, that was what I was thinking going into this, too. And surely a lot of people are like me, and heard the same thing, somewhere, at some point. And essentially, according to top gear, we're telling them to waste precious seconds, only so they can act when they start drowning, so they can panic their way to certain death.
A lot of the time, the car flips over, upside down. There was a call by a woman to emergency services in the states, where she drowned on the phone. Worst call I've ve ever heard. You should always carry warm clothes, a flashlight and emergency stuff in a dry bag in your car as well as window breaker.
That was in a controlled setting with prior training and safety crew and no panic or physical trauma from the crash which is what no one who crashed badly enough to enter the water faces! The reality would much worse.
Given Hammond's tendency to crash, this was probably just training for himself
Having done SCUBA training, you are trained to operate without a mask on. If you keep your nose pointed down, you should be ok. But it is still an unnerving feeling. Regardless.
Major props to Hamster for going through with this.
Destin from Smarter Every Day did a video on water landings in helicopters where he talks about his SCUBA training not totally preparing him for that, since the heli wants to go upside down - when that happens, your sinuses will fill up even if you have a regulator in and it's a massive mental block
Hammond is the only man in the world who has spent most of his time in a car upside down.
Then, he supposed to be a science show host.
I mean can you blame him? His father bought a horrible car when he was a child.
"You don't have time to muck about."
Get that crocheted on a tea cozy.
Those underwater shots are chilling
Mythbusters did an episode of this and then revisited the issue in a later one as well. Turns out it's a lot worse under real world conditions when the car might turn over multiple times during descent. In addition, the car Adam was in was a smoker's car and all that nicotine gunk made the water brown and murky, as well as biting into his eyes. New nightmare unlocked.
My takeaway from this: Don't be there in the first place. Drive safely.
Protip: the prongs of your removable headrest are tapered at the ends like that specifically so they can be used to break a window in an emergency. Slip your headrest off and leather the window with it as quickly as possible. Don't rely on being able to open a door in this kind of situation - more have died than haven't trying.
Seatbelt off, headrest off, batter the window to bits, and get the fuck out of the car. Don't hang around.
You’ll never get enough force to do that underwater with a headrest. Some headrests are a pain in the backside to get off anyway. Try doing that underwater and you’ll already be dead
There was an accident in the Amazon where a bus crashed into the water (think the driver fell asleep). Some people were devoured by piranhas. Now, that is the stuff of nightmares.
@@RobRyan-c3vriver monsters episode
If the electronics still work, you have to start opening the window while it's going down. The car will flood much quicker, even a small air pocket stuck somewhere will make it immensely hard to open the door. Modern cars seal so well you'll be waiting ages for the car to completely flood inside, but there's a risk your electronics won't work. My friend's dad got sideswiped and knocked into a lake off a low bridge and the fact that he always drove with a window a little bit open meant it flooded so fast he got the door open quick. The driver side tipped down first though, so he had to get out from under the car.
Navy pilots train for this with a helmet on, a blacked out visor, in the dark, and upside down. My friend's dad rode Army helicopters in Vietnam and they didn't do that training for them!
What an interesting life F159 MPV had. First being used to try and drown Hammond and then finally killed in car darts
The Vauxhall Carlton always brings me to this video. The Vauxhall Carlton was one of a long line of old cars from my early childhood. I used to see loads them when I was growing up. Most of the ones I saw on the road were the mk3, in gold, in beige, in silver, in grey and only a handful of them were red. This Top Gear test is a classic.
If you live in an area with large bodies of water, the best advice I can give you is to have multiple options of escape. Yes, opening the door as quickly as possible is a good idea, but chances are that you’ll be stunned for a few seconds from the impact of hitting the water. In that case, you want a center punch or something like that in your glovebox to smash out the window. That way you can either open the door more easily, or it prevents the pressure from locking you in as long. Remember, the small cuts you get from broken glass are far more preferable to drowning.
One thing I’ve learnt always keep a spring loaded centre punch in the glove box
Beautiful British understatement
Car crashes violently into a river, flips over and sinks in seconds
"Right so you havent got time to muck about."
alot of people dont know, the headrests actually come off so you can break glass to escape a car in water because you only have seconds to escape, also if you can get yourself to the back of the car that would be better because the engine is the heaviest in the front
On amazon there are glass breakers and seatbelt cutters combo you can ziptie to your seat ready to use if ever in need
Except on this case where the car sank back side first...
Maybe the Engine is heavy but the trunk full of water weight more than every engine...
this is why cars drown faster on the back.. not on the front....
its only need a few Mili Secounds for the water to fill up in the Trunk and no Trunk on any car is Water Proof when it is in the Water !!
@@davidepaltrinieri3535 and when you can’t generate enough force to break the zip tie what are you gonna do? Stupid idea
They don't come of in my car. Built end 2017...
00:38 *plays vhs tape
World has changed so much in 20 yrs
Yeah I noticed that 😅 Still pretty obsolete, even back in circa 2005. Most likely just hanging around from the decade previously as "it did the job", much like you could imagine a similar place today having a few videos still on disc based media 🫠
One the forgotten scenes from Top Gear.
2 thing I feel like to point out
A. the car the team used has a sunroof , so it's also possible to just climb out from it.
B.the third choice of quick pressure balance is to roll down all of windows (including sunroof) as soon as possible to let the water rushing , make the car an open box instead of a leaking box , therefore since there isn't a outside or inside any more , the water pressure difference is gone , and will be able to open the door quicker and easier.
Hammond tried to open the window and it didn't work. The electronics had been fried. This is why it's important to carry something that can easily punch through the glass of a windshield.
6:33 I loved these little lead-ins to the films. Ah memories 😂
clarkson - i wont do it cuz i got a tiny hammond
may - i wont do it cuz i got a tiny clarkson
hammond - how hard can it be
This would probably have been from around the time of the Richard Hillman demise storyline in Coronation Street. Maybe they should have got Richard’s actor in on the star 💫 in a reasonably priced car slot on this program. Jeramy would have been gas 😊
TG finally realising what we want 👌🏻
"About to have a horrible accident."
Well that's not something new, coming from Richard Hammond.
Getting out as fast as I can would definitely be EVERYONES first thought I can’t imagine anyone would think no we wait untill we see fish
Would be alot more tricky to know what to do if you had children strapped in in the back. Plus your own seatbelt to faff about with could delay you by a few seconds even if you were on your own
@ mate don’t Iv got 3 kids under 3 I’d be fucked
@ not forget the wife but she’s as much use as a chocolate tea pot
@@GazBeasley add the panic factor in and you're fucked before you know it.
@@jungleboy1 yep pretty much
To make it at least a little bit funny, it had a sunroof 😄
I do miss the days of this trio on top gear.
I undergo a helicopter underwater escape drill every 3 years. This is FAR more scary as they don’t know what the car is going to do.
I remember happy days getting drowned at HOTA in Hull :))
Not me holding my breath when Hammond was underwater
The BBC financially benefit from this channel
I just noticed. I thought it was a fan channel at first.
Of course, it’s logo is on the top left.
okay???
Just another day for Hammond
Somehow my mind read it as ‘escaping a stinking car’
Jeremy clarkson ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Best reasons to drive a convertible roof down if your heading towards water...
I always crack the window down while driving alongside water
I love Top Gear classic, tanks Andy Willman
It's so scary that how many people still hold this false belief that you should wait for the car to be filled with water before you open the door and get out.
Vauxhall Carlton/Opel Omega A.
Never saw this ep originally. Really scary. I would not do that.
I assumed he would just float on the surface tension of the water, like a mosquito.
top gear classic, wow bbc must miss the 3
3:56 there I can see a person lying down in the seat behind Hammond
Did anyone else see that person behind Hammond in the seat lying down
Same person that passes him the breathing apparatus later. It’s just a safety person
Yes son, we did see the man in the back lying down
@@stevewakeford1474is he really a safety person
Hi TG Classic
He says 'faster' different to how he says it now. Did he change it so it sounded 'better' on tv?
This is upsetting. What the f*ck are we doing promoting the whole "wait for the car to fill up" thing, then? Jesus Christ, that was what I was thinking going into this, too. And surely a lot of people are like me, and heard the same thing, somewhere, at some point.
And essentially, according to top gear, we're telling them to waste precious seconds, only so they can act when they start drowning, so they can panic their way to certain death.
Mythbusters tested it. You can open the door a second or two after impact, but you're most likely still getting your bearings at that point
Of course, every time a car crashes into a lake, there's only the driver to worry about. Let's not even contemplate your kids are on the back seat
Just a quick tip from a qualified open water diver, note while getting out the car ; NEVER EVER hold your breath at depth.
Explain further, please
Hamsters can swim can't they???? 🤣🤣
How young they were
plot twist Hamster was in a Tesla...RIP
Basically if you drive into a lake you’ll die🤷
르망인데?
This was top gear at its peak, going mainstream was the worst thing that happened to it.
Get.out as fast as u can...cheers. no ship sherlock.
A lot of the time, the car flips over, upside down. There was a call by a woman to emergency services in the states, where she drowned on the phone. Worst call I've ve ever heard. You should always carry warm clothes, a flashlight and emergency stuff in a dry bag in your car as well as window breaker.
Disliked due to YT’s ad
Lovely Carlton ruined
Worst Carlton I've seen
Should have used a Morris Marina 😂
Probably headed for a wrecker regardless.
It was later recycled in the "car darts" episode, where they propelled it onto the dartboard
It’s a real shame but those were worthless 10-15 year old cars back then. They aren’t really that desired now sadly. Still see a ton rotting away.
Probably a nice guy but he irritates the life out of me
That was in a controlled setting with prior training and safety crew and no panic or physical trauma from the crash which is what no one who crashed badly enough to enter the water faces!
The reality would much worse.
brrr