Was it my imagination or were they teasing us with the possibility of a truck breaking through? Also, Art's truck "happens" to stop right over an under water camera? If the camera was not there and the production crew dived to place it then that means these drivers have a heck of a lot of time to waste.
sharethat underwater show has been used since season 1. I don't think anyone is meant to take it as the actual event on tv at that time
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While I didn't see this "sinker teaser", IRT has, in the past, used the same clips (from multiple angles) of a training video where a truck actually breaks through the ice. I recall it being hosted by a Canadian transportation agency and it had many, many safety precautions. The drivers were wearing scuba outfits underneath their clothes, they had scuba gear and regulators under the ice, cranes were ready to pull the truck out in seconds, warming trailers were setup on the ice, etc.
If an actor had actually went through the ice in an unplanned event, we would have heard about it months ago when this POS show was filmed.
Also, as another poster indicated, most of the IRT under-ice footage is simply generic footage that they roll every time a driver gets near ice. If you look carefully, you will see the same clips used over and over again -- right down the same air bubbles, ice thickness, and other giveaways.
Til the last show they had not used that teaser for a while. Don't worry as I did not believe somebody would have gone through the ice themselves. What I thought they MIGHT do was have Art walk around and they would sink another truck that maybe was a junker and had no cargo but the camera angle would be so bad and fuzzy that they would bull dung us into "believing" Art's truck and load had sunk. The funniest part would be to have Art lament how he was stuck in the middle of nowhere. With a camera crew who had food and transportation. I am not saying they were trying to show anything that really happened but suggesting they were ready to push the reality show envelope a little further.
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