Preview: Season 15 Episode 2 | 30s | Video has closed captioning.
Using innovative, 3D-modelling technology, scientists set out to prove whether it’s possible three inmates were able to survive one of the most daring prison escapes on record.
Aired: 03/29/16
- [Narrator] On "Secrets of the Dead."
The most iconic prison escape in American history.
- It's one of these myths that go around for decades already.
- [Narrator] Now, a team of scientists wants to determine what really happened.
- But if you time it wrong, you just die of hypothermia over there, or sharks.
- [Narrator] Under identical conditions, they set out to recreate... - [man] Good luck, guys!
- [Narrator] "The Alcatraz Escape," on "Secrets of the Dead."
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