How to Escape Alcatraz With Basic Engineering

Summary by Krater

The creators recreate the legendary 1962 Alcatraz prison escape of Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin, building fake heads, drilling cell walls, and navigating San Francisco Bay in a homemade rubber raft to test if they could have survived.

From the video

Answers: Could the Alcatraz prisoners actually survive their 1962 escape?

• Alcatraz prison escape
• Frank Morris
• John Anglin
• Clarence Anglin
• homemade raft construction
• prison break engineering

What it concludes

• The prisoners used fake heads crafted from soap, concrete dust, toothpaste, toilet paper, and human hair to fool night guards during head counts.
• Enlarging air vent holes using makeshift tools like stolen spoons allowed the escapees to crawl through prison walls.
• Raincoats were successfully used to construct a homemade raft and life preservers for crossing San Francisco Bay.
• Tide charts indicate that the escapees had a strict 30-minute tidal window around midnight to make it safely to land.
• Despite replicating the escape methods, the creators concluded that the prisoners had less than a 50% chance of surviving the final crossing.