for that. >> narrator: shirley says it was worth the risk, and she that has some insight as to why the reaction to the video is so strong. sfli think there are more people really starting to appreciate the fact that the an malgz were here first. we're supposed to share this earth together. gambling with their lives. pushing the limits. targeting adventure. >> i'm going die. i'm going die right now.

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superior airport in wisconsin. nine sky divers take off for their last jump of the day. five are seated in a chase plane. four are seated in the lead plane. each plane has one pilot. most of these sky divers have logged hundreds of difficult jumps. they enjoy the camaraderie, the risk taking brings. >> we're kind of a family. >> narrator: amy olson and her fiance, chad, even plan to get married while sky diving, but on this day the jump is just for fun. >> it's when two airplanes are flying in close proximity to each other. >> mike robinson is the oldest member of the group. >> sky divers from both planes leave about the same time, and then we hook up and freefall. >> narrator: five of the sky divers have cameras mount odd

their helmets. within minutes the plane reached out to begin climbing out of the plane. >> it kind of looked fake at first. >> narrator: the sky divers are alarmed. >> knew that that's not supposed to be having. >> we're flying 100 miles an hour, and both of them hit the other airplane with their bodies. >> narrator: sarah is knocked off the plane. >> she is the second one to climb out of the aircraft. i saw her take a really hard hit. i see him pressed up against the glass. kind of like a fly on the windshield. >> i kind of felt like i was smashed. >> narrator: the lead plane explodes. one wing is blown off. >> when all of a sudden, bang,

there's this loud noise, and this wing right above us goes away, and this big flash of fire is right above our head. >> you feel a large jolting. glass flying everywhere. debris everywhere. >> all i see is this big fireball. you can feel the heat from the fuel burning off. at that point it's just get out. >> narrator: not everyone can. the pilot of the burning plane is caught inside. the broken wing is in flames threatening the sky divers. >> now, you know, in the next second we're probably not going to be alive. >> narrator: the wing plummets with the sky divers who are also flying through the air.

there are all small pieces flying around us that are on fire. >> i'm melissa rehburger. i have breaking news. >> the aftermath of the earthquake that took place at 3:20 this morning. let me bring up the people who represent each of the disciplines that have been working on this issue and let you know where we stand and then we would be happy to answer questions that you might have when we're done. why don't i first bring up rick. rick is our community development director, and for those of you that were asking questions about the status of buildings that are red tagged and yellow tagged and that have been damaged, we've handed out a list with addresses and the names of the buildings with the specific information on that. we can answer questions if you have any. >> as mike mentioned, there

are -- there's a list that contains the addresses of the red tags. there are approximately 33 reds tags. these are because of partial collapse. separation of a roof as an example. these are buildings that are unsafe to occupy. they're split between commercial and residential buildings. we've also issued -- to owners, property owners, or residents should be going into only to clean up the premises, to remove glass, to remove materials that once those properties are cleared of those materials, then they're safe to occupy. the rest of the buildings that aren't red or yellow tagged so far, there could be a presumption that those are accessible. we ask that people be smart about it, look at these buildings, and if they question

something that they see, they should cactus. we've put up a number for a contact for inspections that you can find on our website. city of napa.org. there's information that is constantly dynamic and changing, but you can get up-to-date on that information. tomorrow, just really quickly, we'll be convening a group of between 20 and 30 building inspectors and engineers working with city team to go out and inspect the remaining areas of the city that we have not yet seen in great levels of detail. we hope by tomorrow we have the canvassing of the city, residential, and nonresidential buildings. that's a summary of the building related issues. i guess just to hazard a broad guess, i would say that we've done about 35% of the city here.

>> the list that we've provided for you, we'll show you that in the right-hand column. the range goes from materials that are falling off. you see some of those in the downtown where the ribbons are backed to the parking area. we suggest people stay back from those. if we do have another trembler, that material can fall off. staircase that is have separated from the building so you can't get into the building. we have some, you know, structural fires as well. it really -- the range is pretty broad.

they had materials fall from the facade, and there were older buildings that have fallen off of their foundation, which are several decades old. >> the urm's, the unreinforced ministry buildings, i think there were 18 unreinforced masonry buildings over the last seven or maybe ten years that we've identified. 12 of those have been reinforced. six of them haven't. we are working proactively with the homeowners of three of those, and actually then three of them we warrant, and those are the ones on brown street that you saw pretty substantial damage. it's some of the buildings that were retro fitted didn't fair as well as you would expect, even

with recent work. >> it really -- there hasn't been a pattern per se of where the damage has been. that said, the more visual damage, of course, are the larger buildings downtown which, of course, have been receiving a lot of press. the first cut is to do the triage and see what we can see. get it properly tagged and make certain people can get in the building as necessary. and the clean-up is necessary and the

stay-away is necessary. it isn't until we get engineers after we've settled here a little bit before we can determine the reasoning some of the buildings have had their problems and what to do with them from there. >> do you have a plan for tomorrow with all the inspectors right here from napa, or are you bringing in more -- >> it's a combination of both. oes is providing us with inspectors. between ten and 20 inspectors, and then we have our internal crews as well. both a building inspector and others who will help guide those unfamiliar with the city about the technical skills to do the inspections. >> in -- has there been anything done for the private owners for the reinforced section? >> it's a broad question. i can't say what specifically has been done with regard to home remodels. those improvements are made.

in terms of a comprehensive program from start to finish of all the chimneys in town, i can't say here that that's been done or it hasn't been. >> can you stick to the old courthouse? obviously, what's the statuteus? >> the courthouse, which is a county building, the courthouse has two sides to it that have damage. the east side has been red tagged. the west side has not. the red side -- the west side has been yellow tagged, which means that folks can get in there to do clean-up. the intent is to get in quickly and get out quickly, so it's an interesting building for a block that goes one end to the other that it really has two different circumstances associated with its tagging unit and its damage. >> i don't have that level of detail in terms of the damage. i've been so focused in my responsibilities on the

properties and the buildings, i haven't connected those. >> so if i could have mike introduce the next person. zoopt only with the support receiving on our inspection efforts, but also with the work that we're doing on our utility work, there's been tremendous amount of cooperation from a aadjoining and regional and coming into the city and assisting. i think our public works director has specifically told you this afternoon that we were looking at the potential for having 600 water customers without service for a period of

time. we talk about some of the progress that we're making and when we might be able to have that. meebl, he is coming up to talk about the power. we also talked about 68 to 20,000 customers. now it's 11,000 to 15,000, but weave received word from pg&e that they're working incredibly hard and that we should have full power restored in the community. hopefully tonight and at the latest by 1:00 tomorrow. that's a lot of progress being made in one day. >> as mike indicated, there are 600 properties that have issues with water and are being turned off. just to let you know, we have

five crews that are going to be starting this evening to begin repair of that -- of those 600 -- for those 600 homes. there's about 60 locations. half of those have been isolated. they've been turned off. you still see some water, you know, spewing out through the streets and leaking out through the streets, and we'll be taking care of those systematically. the five crews are going to be aib made up of two of our own craws and three crews from other agencies. the mutual aid, i would like to say, that i'm impressed with the folks in this area and the region that have stepped up, offered to help, and are willing to do that. these are going to be actual city -- other agency crews that do water break repairs on a regular basis. they will be coming with their own equipment, with their own repair kits, if you will, and they will not need to be supervised. they'll be able to do the work. assign them, the jobs, and

they'll just start going. as a result of that we feel that we will have all -- >> we are getting an update from city officials in napa, california, following an early morning earthquake that injured more than 100 people there. they're talking with the infrastructure problems that they're facing at the moment. >> good evening. yeah, it's really kind of a surreal scene. with all of the video and the pictures that we've seen of the damage, that it would be -- there may be a little bit more disorganized or a little bit more chaotic, but really what it has been is a day of sightseeing for a lot of residents here in and around napa and then for those who are impacted, obviously, trying to find places to go for the night. beyond historic downtown, a lot of the older buildings, the brick buildings that crumbled in the earthquake. the surrounding area, it's kind

of business as usual. there are restaurants that are open. there are stores that are open. grocery stores. it's not a can't get resources. people can go and get food and water and finds places to eat. even hotel that is are open. in those spots where you see the hardest hit areas with the damage, it really has hit home for those people. again, a magnitude 6.0. remember, this was felt as far as 200 miles to the south all the way over to the nevada border to the east. it was a significant earthquake. obviously drawing a lot of attention, but at the same time you have people who are directly impacted and are now having to figure out how to move forward. you have scores of people that have been walking the streets of downtown napa kind of sightseeing mission today. it's a tourist area. a lot of people taking pictures standing literally right across the street from a historic building where the roof top is teetering on about 45 degree angle and could come down in a moment. it really is kind of two different sides of the coin

here. there are more people coming because of swrrz they've gotten from walking around out there and kind of what you are describing. are you hearing -- are you hearing of anything like that? >> wrau. you know, initially, as you might expect, the initial wave were people who are injured with the initial jolt. they're getting out of bed and running into things or getting hit with things that are falling. that was relatively limited to just about 100 people or so, and then the emergency room started to see more and more people who are injured trying to start to clean up from the damage. the thing like the broken glass and on glass and cutting themselves.

>> there is the shock waves this morning. >> that is exactly what we are hearing from the hospital officials wrerl. mike, thank you very much from kcra joining us from napa, california, where a 6.0 earthquake struck at about 3:20 local time this morning. >> the local hospital -- most of them with cuts and scrapes and things like that. 13 people earlier were admitted. most of them with broken bones. again from having things fall on them. apparently most of the injuries are not considered serious. that is the good news. we will continue to keep you updated on the situation here in napa, california, regarding this earthquake as the night goes on. you're watching msnbc.

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i'm going die right now. the pioneer has made a career out of doing the impossible. a life in flight, in the air and on the edge. >> that is the very thing that i was born to do. >> narrator: a 2012 accident in south africa nearly costs him his life. while flying off table mountain, he impacted a rock ledge at 120 miles per hour. >> i remember just, like, laying there. the pain was indescribable. all the muscle had ripped off my thighed and i had a gash in my right shin. broken fibula. broken ankles. i mean, my legs were crushed. everything is crushed. i'm dead. i'm dead. >> narrator: against all odds jeb survived. after four surgeries and a year and a half of recovery, it was

time to put his next big plan into action. >> i was going to be able to continue living my dreams, living my life. >> narrator: the next impossible dream? a stunt called the flying dagger. a flight through the three fingers of the wr ang lantin mountain pass in eastern china. to complete this stunt jeb must fly for 900 feet and clear a space that will leave only four feet on either side of hem. september 2013. he arrives with a typhoon warning in effect threatening the event and corliss's safety. >> i think i'm genuinely frightened. how are you doing? you can see it's not -- i don't know what you call that. haze or overcast. it's basically touching the top of the mountain, so i can't get the altitude to leave the helicopter to fly through it anyways, so i'm not going to be able to do a practice jump right now. all of my practice days, and now it's five jump az day for five

days, and that's how i was going to lead myself into this thing. i didn't get any of it. none. >> right now the conditions are ideal. >> narrator: finally a break in the weather. corliss rushes to make much-needed practice runs only one day before the event. >> there he is. wow. >> my first practice jump flying over it, looking down going, like, ah, you know, and i opened high, and i come into my landing here, and i slam in. horrible landing. i mean, bad. then all of a sudden it started dawning on me, i just spent the last year and a half getting better. so now i'm going to get totally broken again and have to go through another six months of recovery if i'm lucky. >> stunt day arrive with more bad weather. it's time. didn't fwet the proper train,

the proper preparation, and i'm just sitting there, and they're looking at me, and i'm just, like, let's go. i have a guide in the chopper helping me. he is, like, this is when you get up. i'm, like, okay. basically at that point i was just being like, i was so fairfied tears started coming out of my eyes, and all of a sudden i feel him touch my shoulder, and i remember leaving the helicopter. >> corliss is 1,500 feet bottom of the mountain and hurdling towards two cliffs of sheer granite. >> the second i hit it, all of a sudden that 60 foot part just went -- and the feeling was like i'm way too narrow. i could feel myself doing this because i'm literally crooked. i'm doing this as i'm flying. i'm actually having to side slip as i'm coming down, and it felt like the only time i have ever been that close to rock is when i impacted the table. my

parachute oepsz and rips the hammers off of my head. i just watched him get it, and, boom. it drives off, and i see my landing. oh, you am not going to make it. i'm, like, come on, come on, come on. i bring my legs over the barricade, and i just impact. boom. everybody is laying there like -- i and couldn't believe it. like, i literally could not believe that i had gotten out of the helicopter, that i had fallen through it, that i had gotten a good opening. i had landed where i was supposed to land, and that i was okay. >> narrator: the one remaining camera records his landing. >> yes! whoa! holy mother. [ bleep ] oh, my god. i made it. [ bleep ] i can't believe i did it.

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i'm melissa. we just got an update from napa officials saying they're still inspecting buildings after the biggest earthquake to hit the san francisco area since 1989. governor jerry brown declared a state of emergency. schools tomorrow will be closed in the napa area, and tonight a peace rally in st. louis, michael brown's father called for a day of peace as his son will be laid to rest tomorrow. thousands are expected at the funeral including three white house officials.

on a mountain peak in the french alps a wrong turn launches a skier over a 250 foot cliff. march 18th, 2008, camonix, france. this is one of the world's top freestyle skiers. at 42 he is also one of the oldest, still active. he tests his skills on steep and untraveled terrain like this remote peak in the alps. there's always a bigger chance when you are out here to try things that you can't do every day. >> on this day he and two other skiers are being filmed for a movie about extreme skiing. fred and the filmmaker, terry denard, have worked out a route down the mountain, using

landmarks like rock-out props. the plan is for fred to leave the other skiers, but the filmmaker suddenly changes the plan, worried about fred's has been it of taking big handses, which could lead them all into disaster. sorry, guys. let's go one by one. i have a sixth sense. i know quite for a long time. i know as a child, you know, it's always one push. >> a helicopter drops fred off on the peak. he will begin alone. >> i'm kind of focused on getting my gear ready and getting buckled up under my boots and at last check of the equipment. >> there are steep, sharp drops on either side. one mistake could send him over a deadly edge. >> waiting for the signal to go. then you're just accident lining, you plaque out because

then you're only concentrating on the linure going to ski. you are kind of very into what you are going to do and focussing on the right way to go down. fred pushes off. >> i felt like this is going to be like a really good front to get the feel of the snow because it was the first round of the day. >> unintentionally fred turns far off course. >> i thought it was at the right landmark. >> the filmmakers all on headsets try to warn him. fred doesn't hear them. >> when i come out of that turn, i can see that there are some rocks. i know there is going to be no rocks, so i knew instantly that i was on the wrong squad. >> he also knows he is in big trouble.

sfwlo the terrifying moments where he launches off the cliff. >> when i got into the air, it was just like seeing -- like in the beginning i was, like, ah. it's like an attack for your life in a way. the helicopter races to find where fred is falling. you knowing it's going to be a possibility that you can survive. >> fred is falling at 100 miles per hour. >> you heard the wind, and it picks up like more and more and more. so that's -- that was the force i was fighting. i was fighting that all the way

town. i knew if you land on your feet or your head, you're down done. >> fred slams into the snow. >> the impact is so strong that it's like an explosion. then the sudden silence. nothing. just silence. >> in the helicopter terry denard, the filmmaker, spots where fred disappears into the snow. while the pilot hovers nearby, denard and an assistant jump to try to rescue him. fred is buried. >> that was the first thing i noticed. like i didn't pass out. and i felt no pain. then i started to see if i could move my toes. when i could move my toes, i

was, like, relief. then i find out that i'm stuck. in one or two seconds of pure panic sets in because i'm trying really, really hard to use all my muscles in my leg to get loose, but no way. i couldn't. the filmmakers see the tips of his ski poles and begin digging franticly. >> i thought maybe do everything you can to get a little more room for your mouth and nose. i can hear the helicopter. i can hear those guys. >> we're digging in the snow with our hand, and we find that -- i was, oh, finally, air. >> narrator: the filmmakers pull him from the snow. they asked me what day is it.

what's the name of my cat? >> are you hurt yourself, or did you get pain? no, no, i'm fine. my god, it's crazy. >> fred is flown to a hospital for tests. terry returns to measure the cliff. it's 252 feet high, an unintentional world record for ski jump. >> when the doctor comes back and says fred is okay, and i tell him, okay, we just got him off the cliff. there's some silence. then the doctor say, okay, i will heck again. >> narrator: further tests reveal he has a slight tear on his kidney. the cure is rest and staying far from the ski slopes. a month later, however, fred is back. >> i was thinking about maybe i get scared. maybe i can't jump anymore. maybe i'm traumatized. people told me to. you're going to be traumatized,

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death-defiling jump. in just four years he has made 108 of them. april 23rd, 2013. lake guarda in northern italy has been a magnet for tourists and nature lovers for centuries. here along the lake's majestic cliffs, matthew finds a rocky ledge to launch his latest jump. it towers more than 100 stories. so he suits up for his jump, making those crucial safety checks. >> all your preparation before coming is key. of every single jump you do, you're hecking the gear for the jump. everything from your boots to the protection and essentially your parachute. the main thing is your parachute. >> narrator: the parachute appears fine. next matt attaches a gopro camera to his helmet to record

his jump. >> i felt pretty balanced in the air. the position used to try and fly away from the cliff as much as possible. >> and he is tracking fast. >> with every jump, you notice the increase in speed. when you go from standing still to up to 100 miles an hour. >> matt pulls the chute. the parachute is so tangled in its own lines that it doesn't fully deploy. matt struggles to steer. >> trying to look up to see which direction the parachute is flying. i managed to turn around and flying in the cliff, i knew i was going to hit the cliff. nirchlts matt kicks off the cliff wall to avoid a full collision. it's not enough. >> the second time i hit the wall, all i'm thinking is keep kicking off the wall. don't let yourself get stuck. i don't want to get snapped on the wall. >> narrator: the second time his legs hit hard. more than halfway down he looks

for a potential landing spot. >> i was wondering am i going into the lake. i'm not sure i can swim because at this point i thought i had broken legs. >> narrator: worse, he sees the rock directly below him. >> if i go into the general hard ground with the vertical speed that i have, i figured it at least would break my back, if not kill me. >> narrator: matthew spots a metal storage container on the ground below surrounded by metal spikes. >> the last second i choked my leg up to try to miss the container unit. but that came close enough that it glanced my nose, scratched my face, and actually caught my helmet and rip the helmet off my head. in the last half a second, i thought this was going to be the last thing i see. >> he crashes to a halt and remains fully conscious. >> i was lying on the floor and started getting a little more conscious to the fact that i was

alive. blood was spattered on my parachute. it was lying next to me. i saw this blood, and i didn't know where it had come from. initially the doctors just told me that i was an idiot and asked what i thought i was doing jumping off a cliff. i think the doctors were just as amazed as i was with these thumbs up after coming back after every scan, every x-ray. >> narrator: no bones broken. no internal bleeding. just a few scratches and some sore legs. adjust hours after falling 1,000 feet, matt checks himself out of the hospital. >> weeks later matthew is back traveling the world. he isn't searching for base jumps for now. at the same time he is still searching.

i hope i can find a way to fill that gap. i'm struggling at the moment. >> narrator: a 72-year-old hang-glider is flying high until a midair mishap threatens to send him crashing to the ground. >> what do i do now? >> narrator: july 59, 2013. holster, california. 72-year-old lynn lyons has always wanted to fly. >> i had wanted to fly ever since i was young. >> narrator: but it wasn't until he was 70 years old that he made the leap. >> you're flying. here i've gone to heaven, and i haven't even died yet. >> narrator: lyons has made more than 80 flights since. on this day he is going out on the edge, planning to fly at 1,000 feet, higher than he has attempted before. a gopro camera sits on his wing to record the flight. >> sets up the glider.

get the harness on. got to be my turn. i attached. when you are going, you stomp your foot a couple of times, and it can pull you off the ground. >> narrator: 76-year-old harold johnson operates the tow rig. the electric powered rig use a wench to create tension to pull the wire cable. once lyons reaches altitudes, he can release the tow line and fly free. >> i went ahead and towed him. he is airborne. everything seems to be going well. >> i'm fine. i'm going higher and higher and higher. >> at 1,000 feet above the ground, he levels out. >> anybody will tell you, more altitude. >> lyons releases the tow rope, but nothing happens. >> i pull it down. >> narrator: lyons sees he has made a mistake. connecting the line to the

glider. >> johnson watches from the ground. >> i couldn't figure out why he wasn't real estate leasing. instead the tow line acts like an anchor pulling lions down to earth. >> he went virt cal down. which i have never seen happen before. that's when i knew that he was in trouble. >> what do i do now? i'm doing this, i kick my legs up, and -- >> narrator: johnson row leases the switch to let the line run out like a fishing reel. buying lyons a few precious seconds which could have been used to cut the line and release his hooked glider. >> we all have a hook, and that's the first cutting lines when you need to, and for whatever reason, i didn't try to do that. >> narrator: he turns to his

parachute instead. >> at that point i'm going to parachute or die. >> narrator: lyons had only just learned how it use his parachute. >> i had taken a parachute clinic about two weeks before that where they had told me and everybody else, this is what you do. >> narrator: he has trouble releasing the parachute too. >> i was trying to fly with one hand mostly just keep myself some n some sem blens of order and pull with one hand. oh, that's not working. go with two hands. oh, you got to go up, not down. >> the glider is dropping faster. works. just like they said. >> the late parachute means lyons is flying towards the ground at 35 miles an hour. >> you don't get to drive. you land where you land. >> narrator: lyons braces for a crash-landing. >> here i come down, and i'm laying down. i had virtually no control.

there's a boom. >> he landed across the highway away from high line wires, away from trees, away from a house, away from barbed wire, away from fences. >> i don't hurt. there's nothing broken. oh, darn. okay. i got lucky. i got lucky. man, it's time for a lottery ticket. >> he didn't get a scratch. a few days later he does fly again. coming up, riding in the dark. when owe caught on camera razor's edge" continues. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends. three jobs. you're like "nothing can replace brad!"

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when one of the best tries what's never been done? ride one of the most notorious waves in the world in total darkness. australian mark visser travels the world chasing big waves, but none more fearsome hand those that break daily off the coast of maui. in winter, so threatening the breaks have been nicknamed jaws. >> jaws so me was the scariest. it breaks right into a cliff. >> narrator: for a risk taking err, the cliff doesn't make it scary enough. he wants to push the envelope and takes on jaws at night. i wanted to just see. >> narrator: no one has ever tried it. in doubt it can even be done. all the best big wave riders tell us they don't think it's

achievable or something someone can go and do. nirjts he must paddle out alone with sharks patrolling underneath. to top it off visser is none too fond of being in the dark. >> if i want to be less afraid of the dark, how am i going to do that? >> narrator: to get visser prepared for paddling at night alone his team flies him into surf board off shore from a helicopter. they drop him into the ocean near sunset to sink or swim through his fears. >> they put me out to sea and made me paddle in for four hours. way out to sea. for the first two hours, you know, i was terrified. i was constantly thinking of a shark like trailing behind me. >> narrator: visser needs to wear a light so he can be seen from cameras stationed on the shore as well as a helicopter, but the light can't blind him in the process. so his team creates a novel water proof vest that radiates brilliant light without compromising the surfer's vision. a red light under his board also

helps to spot him in the dark. visser shares every surfer's dread. falling off a monster wave and being crushed by its enormous power. >> i could face the worst of my life, so i thought of all the things i trained for in the daytime to be ready for that. the only answer is doing that again times ten. >> visser and his team stimulate an underwater nightmare to prepare. >> they blindfolded me and taught me that if i blew a bubble and it went down, i was upside down or i was upright. one of the biggest fears i had was drowning or being caught in cave at night. >> narrator: july 20th, 2011. after three years of careful planning, the night to ride jaws arrives. >> the conditions were pretty good. we did have a full moon. >> narrator: a jetski tows him into place.

the massive wave rises up behind him like a dark wall. he lets go of the tow rope and faces jaws. >> you can't really see the wave that well. it's more a feeling versus actually seeing. i just was chanting through my head, stay on your feet, stay on your feet if there were bumps or chops to either side. that i was kind of one of the most dangerous hurdles. >> narrator: mark visser does it, rides one of the most terrifying waves in the world at night. >> i don't think i ever really realized that i would be able to successfully ride that wave at night until it was well and truly over. >> narrator: but it's not enough. he goes out to try it again. >> i knew it wasn't over. i just knew i had to keep going. i did not want to catch one. i just wanted to see what i was made of. this time visser pushes further

into the darkness. he rides a second and a third. >> just to give it all i got. >> narrator: he knows he is pushing his luck, but he can't help himself. visser wipes out. in a matter of seconds the wave could drown him or smash him into the cliff. he surfaces, the rescue jetski has only moments to get him to safety. >> a lot of friends, a lot of people said, you know, if i had just done one, i would have been just thrilled. to me it was such a big master. just so scared in that environment to actually call it off w -- pull it off was the best

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