"Map Shows How Alcatraz Escapees Could Have Survived" Topic

"Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was supposed to be escape-proof. But on the night of June 11, 1962, three men disappeared from their cells and disembarked from the island on a DIY raft. Whether they made it to land or were carried out to sea has been debated for more than 50 years. A new model of the currents in the San Francisco Bay suggests that if the men timed their escape right, the tides could have helped them reach the shore.

A map based on the model, presented Dec. 17 here at the the American Geophysical Union meeting, was created by Dutch programmers who study the way water moves in river deltas. They built a model of the San Francisco Bay and then set the water into motion using tide data from the night of the escape. They released 50 digital rafts from Alcatraz every half hour, beginning at 10 p.m. and ending at 4 a.m. (the time frame when the trio are believed to have made their escape). In the version of the model mapped above, the rafts were also programmed to paddle north.

The researchers created the project with a custom-built delta modeling software package called 3Di. In their main work, they look at how things like hydrodynamics, river outflow, and sea level rise will affect the lives of people living in river deltas in places like the Netherlands, or San Francisco…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Also done by Mythbusters several years ago for real.

And even profiled a few years back on a special "America's Most Wanted".

Still an interesting theme.

Amicalement
Armand

The swim really isn't that difficult, or far, to SF, especially if you time the currents right.

I know, I swam across the Golden Gate a while back.

With a name like Mako, I might suspect you had a few natural advatages