00:00You're trapped in a hotel room fire. Your only way out? A 35-foot jump into a shallow pool.
00:05It's just four and a half feet deep, but you saw it on TV once. A spy throws a mattress
00:09in the pool
00:09and lands safely on it. So, would it actually save your life? They built the exact setup. Crane,
00:15dummy, shallow pool. First test, no mattress. Three, two, one, drop. The dummy slams into the
00:21water, pulls 50 G's on impact, and hits the pool floor with another 29, enough force to kill you
00:27or paralyze you instantly. Then came the mattress test. Same drop, same pool, but this time,
00:33the mattress is floating. Three, two, one, boom. The impact, 86 G's. Harder than a high-speed car
00:40crash, but it got worse. Inside the ultra-realistic crash dummy, the damage was devastating. Pelvis
00:46shattered, spine broken in two places.
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