Island, it's no easy to escape but don't know maybe someone had done this before?
2007-07-09 12:13:03 · 9 answers · asked by pb.fan 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
They say that inmates have indeed escaped Alcatraz but they don't believe that any of them actually survived the water currents from the bay. However, recently on Unsolved Mysteries (I think) there was a story about an inmate who escaped and was never heard from again. The theories: (1) he may have drowned - yet no body washed ashore (2) he may have been eaten by sharks with the flow of the currents taking him out to sea (3) he may have had someone waiting for him with a boat and fled to Mexico and may still be living if this is the case (4) he may have had someone waiting for him with a boat and led him back to the U.S. and he changed his identity.
I can't remember the name of htis man. Sorry.
2007-07-09 12:38:45 · answer #1 · answered by Coqui 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, many people know about Alcatraz Island, and the former prison there. Considering this prison was shut down in 1963, this is not a Current Event. Yes, there were many escape attempts, but most of them failed. Yes, you can find more information about Alcatraz Island if you do an online search.
2007-07-09 14:26:05 · answer #2 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was an escape in the early 1960s. Three guys. They worked at it for a long time. They spent weeks enlarging the air-vents in their cells, little each night, and covered them up during the day. They even made dummy 'heads' to put in their beds so when the guards came by they'd look like they were in bed (in dim light).
They went through the vents into a sort of air shaft in the middle of the cell block, and used that to climb up onto the roof and get out of the building.
Now what happened to them after that is not known. It was generally thought at the time that they didn't survive the swim. It's 1.25 miles, and it's very COLD water. If they had drowned while the tide was going out, their bodies might well have washed out to sea and never been found. This also happens to people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.
Up to that point nobody had ever swam from Alcatraz to the mainland. But people have done it since then, just as a stunt. Jack Lalane (famous health nut) swam from Alcatraz pullng a boat with his teeth, on his SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY!
On the program Mythbusters, they showed how the guys could have made a little raft from raincoats that could have gotten them to San Francisco.
It was just after this escape that the federal govt. decided to close Alcatraz, partly because it was so expensive to keep people there. You can go on a tour there and they'll show you one of the cells that these guys stayed in, plus the head he made, and the damage he did to the vent. You can also be locked in the 'solitary confinement' cell for a few seconds. (Which was all I wanted. I would have gone crazy in there. It's totally dark!)
2007-07-09 12:26:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
There is a film Escape from Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood that depicts the escape of Frank Morris but no one ever could prove whether he made it or not.
2007-07-09 12:34:37 · answer #4 · answered by barthebear 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There has been 14 attempted escapesfrom Alcatraz, each one of them failed. Alcatraz is no longer a prison it is a tourist place.
2007-07-09 13:20:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I escaped from Alcatraz
2007-07-09 12:17:20 · answer #6 · answered by parrothead 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
used to be, and yes some guys swam all the way to SF.
2007-07-09 18:09:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if I am not mistaken it's just a
tourist attraction, not a real
prison anymore.
John 17:3
2007-07-09 12:21:13 · answer #8 · answered by itsmissjackson 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
hi, I'm from brasil, if you watch the movie you will know the way to do it
2007-07-09 14:15:53 · answer #9 · answered by berabrasil 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋