No boats, no life jackets, not even directions
Prison on an island surrounded by the sea on all sides
The life and death of the prisoner with the super high IQ and the accomplice are unknown
So what's really going on?
Because the escapists are still missing
So scientists can only simulate the restorative jailbreak process
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In 1962, there was an escape from Alcatraz Prison in the United States, but whether the three prisoners escaped successfully, no one has been able to solve the mystery so far. So three modern scientists are ready to simulate this prison break under the same conditions.
Alcatraz Prison was the most secure prison during the Civil War, but it was said to be flawless. But on the night of June 11, 1962, prisoners Frank Morris and the Brothers Angelin,
The three dug through the walls of the cell with sharpened spoons, leaving a grill and a made dummy head as cover, and climbed up the three-story public corridor to open the vents in the ceiling.
Ran over the roof of the prison, finally slid down the four-story kitchen tube, dodged the guard tower and down the island, and ran to the instrument made by the accordion on the embankment.
Inflate the raft made of raincoats, then slide into the icy waters of Los Angeles and disappear into the night forever. To this day no one knows where they went, no bodies or any news.
Only a few of their handmade artifacts remain, and since then it has become an unsolved mystery for the United States.
Compared with the other violent prisoners on the island, the three of them committed no major crimes, did not hurt anyone, and were only imprisoned for robbing several small banks.
After many failed attempts to escape from other prisons, he was sent to alcatraz island, which was very strict. The main culprit, Frank, has been in prison almost every day since he was 13 years old, but as can be seen from his transcripts from school,
IQ-133 Shows that this person has a high IQ, and the Brothers Angels once robbed a local bank with a toy gun. The guards speculate that Frank may have asked them to join just because he wanted others to think they were cool.
Time goes back to the present when three scientists want to use the same material to build a small boat and go into the bay of San Francisco
To verify whether the three people of that year really escaped.
They first simulated a model of the currents in San Francisco Bay, where the currents are quite complex and Alcatraz island is right in the middle. After analyzing various data, the three prisoners were most likely to be drawn into a place called Horseshoe Bay.
After escaping from land, according to others' previous speculations, there will be a total of four escape routes.
The first one goes to angel island above;
The second is the nearby Horseshoe Bay;
The third is to go to the land below;
The fourth is to float directly to the Pacific Ocean.
There was no chance of them surviving, and according to the simulations, the first and third routes would also fail, because strong currents would wash them directly into the Pacific Ocean, so if they wanted to escape, they had to go to Horseshoe Bay.
But getting to Horseshoe Bend is not an easy task either, and they have to choose the right time to start. After analysis, the time between 11:30 and 12:00 in the evening was a suitable time, and the time when the three people escaped from prison was this time, indicating that they had indeed studied it carefully.
The three scientists decided to build a small boat from the same materials at the time and then go into the bay at the same time to test it. To see if you can reach Horseshoe Bay, the first step is to make a small boat for escape.
Raincoats, sewn threads and sealed glue are required. In order to maintain consistency, they went to see the real material left by the prisoners. They were amazed when they saw it,
The three inmates of the year took into account all the details, and under the FBI's search, they found more than 80 homemade tools, including files, spoons, wrenches and even periscopes used to look at the wind, as well as oars thrown on the roof of the prison.
There were still scratches left on the oars, and finally they got the same raincoat that made the boat, as well as the life jacket and the floating block on the boat, but these two things should not have been brought by the prisoners. Three people not only pay attention to details but also take care of safety,
The raincoat found the sewn thread, which was also easy to find, and finally the glue used to seal. It was a waterproof rubber neoprene used in shoe factories, because Alcatraz Prison used to be a factory that made furniture gloves and shoes for the U.S. military
Their glue was stolen from the prison factory, and at the same time they calculated that they needed about 50 raincoats. At that time, because many prisoners threw them on the ground, raincoats were well collected.
After finding the same fabric as the raincoat, they cut it into the shape of the dress and began sewing it, and while they were making the raft, another person came to Alcatraz.
He tried to restore the truth of the prison escape as much as possible, in fact, there were 4 people participating in the prison escape at that time, the last one was Alan West.
Allen was once considered by many to be the mastermind of the escape, but because he failed to open the cell in time on the day of escape, he missed the opportunity, and later escaped punishment by confessing, and the concrete that had been eroded by the sea for a long time in the toilet area of the cell slowly became soft.
They used their time outside to dig holes in music lessons, using music to mask noise through pipes behind the walls to climb to the open space on the top floor, where their workshops, including raft life jackets, were made.
During the day they told the guards that they were going to come here to paint or clean the ceiling, and then they managed to drill through the hole that led to the roof, and the guards at the time may have been so confident in Alcatraz that no one had ever seen it, so they never found it.
Finally the raft, made the same way, was finally completed, and they began to test the three of them by boat to San Francisco Bay to inflate the raft and sit on it, and one of them rowed the remaining two to inflate the raft.
Because there will definitely be a bad seal that will leak air, and the gas replenishment pipe is the same as at that time, they rowed from the position where the escaped prisoners started to Horseshoe Bay, and after testing, the raft did not enter the water but leaked.
So someone had to be in charge of blowing the air, and sure enough, as imagined, when the ship reached the middle of the bay, the situation began to get worse, they were dominated by the currents and lost their way, and it was impossible for one person to row, and worse, the currents began to take them to the Pacific Ocean.
Surely all three of them began paddling, but did not reach Horseshoe Bay until exhausted. Because if they were to be swept out of the Golden Gate Bridge, they would be in danger of their lives, so they had to end the test.
But in fact, this experiment is not a failure, probably because at the beginning they only had one person rowing.
By the time it was too late to find out, they had already missed the best time, and second, the direction of the three men's drawing was problematic from the beginning, and they did not follow the ocean current to the slope of Horseshoe Bay
The third is that none of them are real prisoners to escape from prison, so they do not have a strong enough belief and desire to survive. There was no desire for freedom, so in summary the three true escapees were likely to have escaped.
Shortly after the escape, the police found their belongings at sea, letters and photographs of them and their families, which they should have found to be very precious.
If they really succeeded, why would they lose these important things? It's not hard to guess that there are only two possibilities:
Either they have suffered an accident, or they are the illusions they use to cover up. Although escaping to Horseshoe Bay is difficult, there is still a good chance that it will be successful.
After finding nothing, the police announced that the three of them had drowned in the sea and closed the case, and less than a year later, Alcatraz Prison was closed and eventually became a tourist attraction.