Is It Really Impossible To Stay Afloat In Bubbly Water? | MythBusters

The myth claims that water filled with enough air bubbles loses so much density that a swimmer's natural buoyancy fails completely, causing them to sink without warning, and Adam and Jamie decided to test it properly, starting with a small hydrometer device in a fish tank, scaling up to a 10,000-gallon tank with Adam in a wetsuit and weights to keep himself neutrally buoyant, discovering that upward water currents were interfering with the results, and then building a large custom bubbler for the bottom of a full swimming pool to eliminate those variables entirely, with Adam attempting to swim across and back through the bubbles at increasing power levels to find out exactly where staying afloat becomes genuinely impossible. Subscribe so you never miss an experiment:    / @mythbusterstvshow   Using science as their weapon and curiosity as their fuel, Hollywood special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman spent 14 seasons and 296 episodes testing the world's most popular myths, urban legends, and movie moments. From the Diet Coke & Mentos explosion to surviving an underwater car escape — if it can be tested, they'll test it. #MythBusters #AdamSavage #ScienceExperiments