Alcatraz: Escaping The RockDecember 13, 2017

In 1962, bank robbers Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin escaped the confines of the prison walls at Alcatraz and set off on the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay in a homemade raft. It's unknown if they made it to land. Dutch scientists use their work on flood risk assessment and innovative 3D technology mapping tides to prove that they could've successfully escaped, but only if their timing was perfect and specific factors were in place. Recreations and archival material, modern science and reconstructed rafts to sort fact from fiction, establishes for the very first time that escape was entirely possible.

Alcatraz: Escaping The Rock was broadcast on SBS ONE at Saturday 19 January 2019, 09:30. This episode was initially placed on Wednesday 13 December 2017.