hit the ground like a meteorite. >> they're pushing the limits. >> nobody knows what happens when you fall from 180 feet. >> climbing higher. speeding faster. >> rider down. rider down. everybody move. >> and falling further. >> oh, my. >> never turning down a challenge. >> the whole crowd was really into it. everyone was egging me on. >> they take on the unknown. >> oh, my god. come on, buddy. >> and disaster is never far away. >> one of the problems in

setting records is you know you're going to experience things that other people have not. >> oh, we have an accident. >> "caught on camera: full throttle." hello, i'm contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." remember how your mother always told you, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again? we're not sure what your mother would say about the people in this next hour. they take that to heart, even if it means breaking bones along the way. as you watch their spectacular feats, remember, do not try this at home. not that you could even if you wanted to. a high-flying bmx rider crashes to the earth. ouch! >> in my opinion, bmx is just as dangerous as what evel knievel

was doing. >> steve crandall should know. he's been part of this strange bmx culture since he was a kid. he owns a bike company and has been to hundreds of unofficial stunt events held in back allies and parking lots. >> bmxers in general are pretty subversive. it's an underground culture, a lot of outcasts, misfits, hell raisers and good time havers. >> thank you all for coming out. we'll run this at 4:00 exactly. >> today steve's in richmond, virginia, and seeing a jumping competition over an unusual but tasty obstacle. >> we're going to run tricks over the world's biggest plate of delicious tacos. >> as the riders demonstrate their skills above a giant bowl of tortilla chips, it soon becomes clear that, like nachos,

riders in this sport get chewed up fast. the stunts are amazing but so are the crashes. >> oh! >> today's riding was probably some of the most world class riding that you'll see in like a back street parking lot over a plate of nachos that will probably ever exist in the bmx or humanity in general. >> the nachos event may seem absolutely nuts, but it's light fare when compared to the stunts served up at the aptly named bone death competition, a bmx event steve covered in 2006 in new bedford, massachusetts. >> we're here at the bone death challenge riding in a swamp on some garbage. the scene in new bedford was probably one of the weirdest bmx scenes i have ever witnessed, a course basically built in between two buildings, build on a swamp.

>> bmx rider paul herrane is one of the creators of bone death. >> it started out as a bet. build the most ridiculous thing you can imagine. have everybody throw money into a hat and say, hey, look, you want something you want to do and you think it's worth a prize, you do it, and i'll tell you what your reward would be for doing it. it got everyone to push themselves. >> they had riders jumping off ledges, riding down rails, riding across like 2x6s. they went so far as to have dead animals on the landings. >> one of the daredevil riders who sticks out in this crowd is matt plassman. he decides he wants to attempt the biggest, most difficult jump in the competition. a ten-foot high leap over the two septic tanks known as the holy roller. >> the holy roller was the big one. we were talking about it since that morning as a joke.

i didn't actually think somebody would literally try it. >> paul should have known. in the bmx world, if you build it, apparently they will jump. >> the whole crowd was really into it, and they were like chanting "bone death," egging me on. something i felt like i had to do at that point. >> matt charges down the makeshift runway. >> whi saw matt pedaling at the holy rollers, i was a little concerned. >> concerned? not a word you here often among the bravado of these high-risk bmx events. but steve was right to be concerned. the jump was too difficult. matt falls short of the landing and crashes to the ground. steve interviews him just moments later. >> what just happened? >> i try to do jump the holy roller, and i bounced off the roller on my face. it was fun.

>> in fact, matt had so much fun he wants to try the stunt again. >> when matt tried to jump the holy roller the first time, it was scary enough to watch him boun off of it, let alone to tell me he wanted to do it again. >> i had the urge to go for it again to see how far i could get. maybe if i push harder this time i'll have just enough to get over it. >> he gave it a little more force, straightened out a couple more pieces of plywood and pedalled full throttle at this thing, really went at it. >> it's not enough. >> he bounced his head off the bark of the septic tank and down hit himself again. >> this time he doesn't jump to his feet. he knocked himself out. >> he wasn't moving. he was hurt and hurt bad. someone called the paramedics and the cops. everyone showed up.

>> matt has a concussion and is taken to the hospital, but he doesn't seem much worse for the wear. >> i wasn't in a coma or nothing. i just kind of within the next week i probably hopped back on my bike and just went riding. >> matt's fellow bmx riders didn't even realize he went to the hospital. >> i don't really know if he actually went in the ambulance or not. i think he turned them down. i think he just went and got some food. >> he probably just went to, like, dunkin' donuts and got a box of munchkins. >> or perhaps he went looking for nachos. after all bmxers are drawn to that flavor, spice, variety and let's not forget the crunch. >> you always laugh when your friends fall. what's playful about it is you're going to fall eventually. what really gets me is the fact that you could fall 100 times, but the second you land that trick it's completely worth it. coming up -- >> dude, let's do this thing,

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a kayaker plunges over an enormous waterfall on purpose. >> holy [ muted ]. >> and disappears into the foaming water below. >> oh, my god. come on, buddy. >> it takes a certain type of person with a certain threshold for danger to think going over a giant waterfall is a good idea. but such people do exist, and tyler bradt is one of them. >> my name is tyler bradt.

i live here in missoula, montana, and i'm a professional kayaker. >> this 23-year-old has been kayaking all his life and travels the globe following rapid after churning rapid. >> what i've fallen in love with is the extreme side of kayaking. big drops and waterfalls. hard rapids, big drops and waterfalls. >> tyler paddled over his first waterfall at the age of 15 and has never looked back. >> i would say in my life as an extreme kayaker i've probably run 100, 150-plus waterfalls. i've kind of lost count over the years. >> in september 2007, tyler came across alexandra falls in canada's northwest territories. it was far higher than any waterfall he had done before, 107 feet tall, and he decided to go for it.

>> the feeling behind running that waterfall was a moment in time that i will remember forever. i surfaced upright without even flipping over off of that waterfall. it was amazing. >> the ride over alexandra falls didn't just give tyler a major adrenaline rush, but he also got the world record for the highest waterfall anyone had kayaked over. nobody could successfully paddle out of a bigger drop. nobody else but him, that is. in the spring of 2009, tyler comes across palouse falls in washington state, just five hours' drive from his hometown. >> a picture perfect waterfall. >> a picture perfect waterfall. it was kind of a neat thing to

have spent my entire life traveling the world looking for rivers and waterfalls and find the most beautiful, biggest waterfall i have ever seen right here in my backyard. >> picture perfect maybe. this is where most people would snap a photograph and leave it at that. but he left the falls with a nagging feeling and comes back to look at it again and again. >> we're standing here at palouse falls. just haven't been able to get it out of my mind. this is my third time here in like three weeks. it's between 160, 180 feet tall, which is a little wild, you know. nobody has even come remotely close to running anything this big. it's a big gray area. nobody knows what happens when you fall from 180 feet so definitely makes you scared for sure thinking about it. >> tyler and his kayaking partner russ sturgis go up to check conditions at the lip of the waterfall. >> dude, the level seems absolutely perfect. i love the look of that right-hand side lip. there's nothing that says no except for the fact that it's a little high.

>> nothing that says no? tyler has a different take on waterfalls than your average sightseer. >> whoo! dude, let's do this thing, man. i think this needs to happen. >> tyler and russ call in their support team. it looks like tomorrow will be the big day. >> in doing something like palouse falls, you can't really practice for it in any other way but mentally preparing yourself and running it over and over again in my head. >> maybe so. but there's a big difference between visualizing going over a waterfall and actually doing it. the next day the safety team takes their places. two kayakers wading in the pool, a rescuer ready to rappel down behind the waterfall to pull out tyler, and another one on the shore with a lifeline. they also have multiple video

cameras pointed at the falls ready to record what will happen. >> at that point i was fully prepared to be able to walk away from it and say, look, this isn't something that i want to do. as it was, i decided that it was something that i wanted to do. so i gave the team the go-ahead signal that things were happening. i got in my kayak. >> then he pushes off. >> approaches palouse, it's flat water all the way to the lip of the waterfall so you have time for conscious thought processes. am i making the right decision? which is a dangerous thing to be thinking when you're going off a waterfall. then as soon as the water takes hold, your kayak begins to accelerate, everything goes away and you're simply focused on running the waterfall. >> whoo! >> tyler disappears into the mist, as his friends hold their breath. >> oh, my god. come on, buddy.

>> come on. >> looking for any sign of him. >> come on, t.d., bud, where are you at? >> dude, down by the right in the vlshadows! >> he's made it. he emerges from the shadow behind his friends' boats, still in the kayak with only a broken paddle to show for the brutal plunge. >> the impact was incredibly violent. i have jackknifed out of my tuck, thrown against the back of my boat, my paddle snapped, the wind was knocked out of me. >> tyler later determined it was a record-smashing 186 feet tall, almost twice as high as alexandra falls. >> i'm very used to going over the lip of a waterfall, reaching free fall and landing, but on palouse i experienced acceleration like i've never

experienced before. in a matter of seconds you go from being at the top to being at the bottom of the waterfall. it's an incredibly overwhelming experience. >> you might say the whole experience was completely over the top. so what's next for tyler? will he try to beat his new record? >> i don't envision myself running anything higher than palouse. that's also whey said after i ran alexandra, though, so i guess it's hard to tell what the future will hold. but i'm definitely looking forward to finding that out and continuing my lifestyle as a kayaker, traveling the world and being able to meet amazing people alongside incredible locations. coming up, a speeding motorcycle smashes to pieces. >> he crashed at probably about 200 miles an hour. nothing moving out there. and are these guys flipping crazy? ♪

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a motorcycle racer pushes the limit and gets dragged hundreds of yards by a runaway bike. it's june 28, 1998. legendary show stopper ron cook is out to break the 200-mile-per-hour land speed record at murak test in california. >> we knew he would go fast. >> videographer mark brazzo is at the starting loon, there to catch what they thinks will be another history-making days for ron cook. he's smashed several records and rarely disappoints. >> i'm seen ron race before. he's very fast on a bike.

his book is 200 miles an hour. kawasaki has a nitrous bottle on it. this thing is a market. >> mark watches as ron shoots down the path. it's only later he learns what happens next. ron moves up to fourth gear and hits the nitrous boost button. gaining enough horsepower to hit top speed. he's blasting at 175 miles per hour when his front wheel begins to wobble. ron struggles to regain control, but it's a losing battle. he makes a split second decision to abandon the bike before it crashes, but, as this terrifying video shows, ron doesn't fall away from the bike. his right leg is caught under the seat, pulling him at almost 200 miles per hour along the hard, dusty surface. >> it dragged him like a horse would drag a cowboy. >> the friction of ron's body against the grounds burns through his protective suit. in another moment, it will tear his skin to shreds. somehow, ron flips his body over

and amazingly pulls his leg free. as the bike speeds away, ron tumbles along the ground. it doesn't seem possible, but ron has not only survived the accident, he can stand up and has barely a scratch on him. >> i thanks the lord that i'm still here with minor injuries, not too bad. >> i saw him shortly after. he drove his pickup truck back to the start line. >> i do plan to run again. i still want to get the 200-mile-an-hour record. this is part of the game here, and it's just a matter of time before you get in a wreck. >> you'd think ron might have learned his lesson and given up racing, but only two weeks after his spectacular wipeout he's back at it, showing up at el mirage dry lake for another shot at the record.

mark brazzo is there and isn't at all surprised to see ron. >> he's very successful, very fast. there was no way ron was not getting back on that motorcycle. >> but ron has a new worry. track conditions don't look good. >> dirt here is all broken up. i don't like riding in that loose stuff. it can get kind of squirrely. track conditions could definitely be better. >> but ron is not about to back down. he's ready to get back on the bike and do what it is he does best, break records. >> i'm in a cautious state of mind, i've made changes, but there's still a little bit of nervousness there. there always is after a crash, got to get back on the saddle and do it again. i'm optimistically conscious. >> mark is manning his camera midway down the track. >> i always want to make sure i get a shot of ron because he is

the fastest thing on two wheels. i heard over the radio that ron was taking off from the start line so i immediately grabbed my camera and aimed. and almost immediately he went into the high-speed wobble. >> mark's seen that wobble before, and he knows what's coming. as the camera rolls, ron's bike hits the loose dirt on the track. instantly he flies through the air as the bike smashes to pieces in a cloud of dust. >> rider down, rider down. everybody move. >> he crashed at probably 200 miles an hour. there was quite a debris field. there was debris flying everywhere. there was dust, motorcycle parts. it was difficult to ski exactly where ron was. >> emts rushed to ron's side. eventual word comes back to the anxious spectators. incredibly, ron has survived once again. >> i hit the ground just like a meteorite tumbling, tumbling. i felt like i was in a washing machine. all of a sudden, everything was

quiet. and all i saw was a big blue sky and a big bright sun. laying on the ground on my backside looking up through my helmet going, hmm, maybe i'm in heaven now. maybe this all ended. >> lying on the ground, ron tests his limbs to see if they're still attached. >> got to my right leg it moved, but when i lifted up the leg, the leg lifted up, but the foot stayed on the ground. >> he's broken five bones in his leg. he's rushed to the hospital. he's also broken his right arm and has third and fourth degree burns over his body from skidding across the hard surface. >> i went 588 feet. that's almost like two football fields tumbling and tumbling end over end. i was amazed i could go that far and still come out alive. >> ron not only survived, he has a new record but not the one he was aiming for. his latest entry in the record book is for surviving the

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in west africa. this comes after dr. craig spencer was diagnosed after returning from that region. three of the victims of yesterday's high school shooting in washington state are in critical condition. one girl was killed in that attack before the shooter took his own life. more news later. now back to "caught on camera." welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. we're watching adventure seekers, pushing the limits, breaking records and all too often crashing. but why do they do it? what makes them drive faster? climb hider? take bigger chances than the rest of us? our next risk taker has an interesting motivation for a breathtaking stunt that puts him on top of the world. christian skoue is balancing on a narrow cord more than 3,000 feet above a norwegian fjord,

he's attempting the highest slack line walk when suddenly -- it's august 3, 2006. christian is atop kirad mountain in southwest norway. he's strung the nylon cord himself, testing each screw to make sure it was securely fastened, and edging along the wire checking it inch by inch. his only protection if he falls will be a safety harness attached to the line. if the cord or screws break, christian will plunge to his defendant. death. >> translator: there are a lot of things that can go wrong. for example, you could have something sharp in your pocket that could cut the line. >> once christian has gone through his safety check, he starts psyching himself up for the attempt. music gets him in the zone. it's hard to believe that anyone can relax perched so high above

the rocky cliffs, bus with his feet dangling over the edge of the canyon, like he's sitting at the kitchen table, christian finds peace. he's ready. he edges along the rope to the other side of the ravine. christian climbs onto the line and struggles to find his balance. he's tried and failed to do this same slack line walk before so he knows how difficult it will be. >> translator: the first steps are some of the worst. the start is the most difficult. >> tentatively, he takes a few steps. he tumbles, instinctively clinging to the rope for safety. it's a scary reminder of how easily this can go wrong. seemingly unshaken, christian prepares to start again. unlike a tight rope, the slack

line is loose. it bounces and swings as christian tries to balance. the line is flat but only one inch thick. christian is 3,280 feet in the air, nearly three times the height of the empire state building. slowly, cautiously, breathing deeply, christian places one foot in front of the other, bridging the gulf step by step. as he reaches the halfway point of the 39-foot crossing, he starts singing to himself. a tiny voice in the vast canyon. seconds later -- >> woo-hoo! >> -- he's made it. >> yeah! >> immediately after the stunt,

christian tries to explain why he took on the challenge. >> translator: we create contrast in our lives so that for things to be really great, we must also experience hell. standing on that line is hell. it's damn good to come home and sit on the sofa and relax. >> whoo hoo! be careful. oh, my god. >> a mountain biker plunges head over heels down a rocky cliff. >> it's hard to describe the experience when you think you see another human being in the process of dying. january 1, 2004, chorizo gorge, southern california. for experienced cyclists bill and miles, a new year's day trail ride has become an annual tradition. >> we try to do a big ride every new year's day just to start the year off right. >> bill's helmet-mounted camera

is recording. they've been riding for almost three hours when miles brakes abruptly. this section of the trail is crumbling along the edge, leaving just inches to spare. >> look at the penalty for failure, dude. >> miles decides to try riding over the eroded area and moves his bike up to get a running start. >> where we stopped look scary to me. i couldn't see riding that so i walked on by. as i'm walking my bike over, i looked down over the edge and i'm like, holy crap, that's a big drop. >> as bill watches from the other side of the gap, another friend, eric, attempts the narrow trail. >> eric got up to sort of like the crux spot, the nastiest spot along the trail, and he decided to put a foot down and try to fight it through the area. >> he make it's but barely. now it's miles' turn. he tries the same technique but loses his balance.

suddenly, disaster. >> oh, [ muted ] oh, my. >> you see him fall for a while. you see him hit and bounce. he catches more air as he went down. he goes shoulder over shoulder. i literally thought i was watching miles fall to his death. >> after miles plummets almost 150 feet over jagged rocks, his friends see him leap to his feet. >> are you all right? >> sit down, sit down. >> wait, miles, make sure you know everything is connected. >> miles scrambles back up the stony slope. he can't believe he's not more badly hurt. >> i was wearing a helmet and a backpack, both of which i credit with saving my life. it was a big drop and very unforgiving terrain. my first thought was, that's it, i'm going to die. i was so focused on trying to grab anything i could trying to

stop my fall that i guess i wasn't really thinking about how much it hurt. >> but miles will have plenty of time to feel exactly how much it hurt. once his makes it back to the path, he must bike in horrible pain back to the trailhead more than ten miles away. >> my right hand was broken, my left wrist was very badly sprained so it was very hard to hold onto the handlebars. it also broke my glasses and i'm fairly nearsighted so it was hard to see where i was going. but the plus side is that movement kept me from going into shock. >> despite his close call, miles' clifftop tumble has not deterred him from mountain biking. why would it? like all these daredevils, he's back at it just six weeks later. >> people have asked me if i learned anything from this. and i say, no, i really haven't. if i were faced with the same situation again, i would give it another shot. hopefully i would make it this time.

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>> in the blink of an eye, a piece of equipment fails or a driver makes a mistake, and that boat could be 50 feet up in the air and backwards. >> at first glance, dave might look more like a banker than a daredevil, but he's been racing hydroplanes for years and been in some pretty dramatic crashes. >> you're traveling at over a football field per second. so if you aren't anticipating what's going to happen, you're likely to crash. >> they flip through the air as if they weigh nothing, but these boats are 30 feet long, 7,000 pounds, with 4,000 horsepower engines. >> it's a celebration of excess. everything about it is bigger and badder and more expensive

than you could possibly imagine. >> dave says imagine driving your car at 200 miles an hour over two and three-foot speed bumps without springs or shocks. that's what it feels like to ride this thing. >> the environment of looking from the outside of a hydroplane, it looks like a wonderful, graceful vehicle that's flying over the water. the truth is the boat is actually beating the snot out of the driver that's inside. >> david fell in love with racing boats as a teenager. while most kids his age were out while most kids his age were out riding bicycles -- >> i started out racing flat-bottom boats, because that's what my uncle had done. >> hey, dave, good-bye. >> and it was a lot of fun, and it progressed into bigger flat-bottom boats, managed to set a lot of world records and win a lot of championships. >> from there, of course, it was a natural step to racing hydroplanes. dave soon breaking almost every record in the book. in 2004, he decides to see just

how fast he can drive his legendary hydroplane, miss budweiser, and tries for the world's straightaway record. >> we'll be racing against time and mother nature. we'll see what we're made of. >> dave doesn't let his nerves show as he gets ready to start the record attempt. >> one of the problems in setting records is you know you're going to experience things that other people have not. >> everyone pay attention, the course is live. >> the speed record is calculated by averaging the time over two one-kilometer runs. >> 9.83. >> the speed to beat is 198 miles per hour. dave is buckled into the cockpit and hits the gas. >> here he comes. >> 213.437 miles an hour. >> he's on record pace over the first leg. for the second leg, he gives it everything he's got. >> 225. >> 225. >> 230. >> he's out of it. >> it's more than fast enough to

break the world record, but the burst of speed also breaks the boat's rudder. >> okay, everybody, the race is on hold. the bud has got a hole in it, and we need to get him off the course. >> luckily, dave isn't hurt in this record stunt. >> mashed the propeller and cleared the propeller and strut off the boat. >> but it's a very different story seven years earlier. dave was at the columbia cup championship in washington state, ready to claim the record for the most consecutive race wins. this would be his 20th win in a row. but, as he bursts out of the gate, almost instantly the boat has hit two waves in a row. at top speed, the force is too much and the hydroplane blows over. the top of the boat crashes onto

the water, exploding the protective canopy that dave is sitting under, ripping off his oxygen mask and submerging him in the water. >> i was unconscious under water. the safety team got there right away, got me up onto the bottom of the boat. they cleared the airway and got the water out. >> amazingly, dave survives. his hand is crushed by the flying metal of the canopy. he ends up losing two fingers on his right hand. it's the type of crash that might deter another driver from racing altogether. but dave is no quitter. >> i just felt i had things to give to the sport and things to prove to myself. >> dave and the team rebuild miss budweiser, redesigning the driver's capsule to make it safer. >> luckily to date since we've done that nobody has been killed or hurt significantly inside that capsule. >> years later, dave will have

good reason to be thankful for that safer capsule. in the summer of 2009, he enters thunder on the ohio, a race he's won ten times before. in his first heat, another driver loses control and hits dave's boat. dave flips over and smashes into the water. but dave's work redesigning the driver's capsule pays off. it stays in one piece, and he waits in safety for help to arrive. >> the only injury i got was a finger injury where it broke a knuckle in the finger. so as boat accidents go, i'll take that. that's a good one. >> after decades of speeding, crashing and tumbling through the air, dave says driving a hydroplane is a thrill only few can experience but many more can enjoy watching safely from the shore.

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a surfer comes tumbling down a giant wall of water and gets trapped underneath the crushing waves. >> that guy's going to die. >> in the world of big wave surfing, maverick surf spot in northern california is legendary. >> maverick's is like a holy spot for big wave surfing. >> neil matthews has been

surfing almost all his life, but he's never seen anything that compares to mavericks. >> if you go to mavericks for your first time, pretty much no matter where you've surfed before and what big wave experience you've had, you will find it to be remarkable. >> they've measured waves up to like 70 feet. and they actually get bigger than that. >> filmmaker grant washburn has been surfing and shooting the giant waves of mavericks for almost two decades. he's seen some incredible surfing and some insane wipeouts. >> it's not necessarily harder to ride big waves. the stakes are higher, and they are punished more severely. so if you make a big mistake at mavericks, it's going to be unlike anything that would

happen to any surfer pretty much anywhere else. january 30th, 1998. the el nino weather pattern makes for a winter of record surf and a big swell is coming in from hawaii. >> it didn't originally look that huge, but they actually were so thick and so powerful that they were some of the biggest waves we had seen. >> powerful enough to give the most experience surfers second thoughts. but a few decide they can't miss this opportunity. as grant films, one of mavericks' best-known surfers, who goes by the name flea, goes for a wave. he doesn't make it. >> when he came up to get his breath, he was pushed down. this huge wave beat him down

into -- really deep. he held his breath, got pushed into the rocks and got stuck there. >> the leash attaching the surfboard to flea's leg is wrapped around one of the jagged rocks so dangerous, surfers call it "the bone yard." >> just surge after surge, held in the spot. we thought we were going to watch him die, because he's in 15-foot whitewater being pounded by waves. there's no way anyone can get there. >> miraculously the leash comes off, and flea makes it safely to shore. >> it wasn't that big of a mistake. it wasn't that bold of an attempt. so that scares everybody off a bit. people are really like, whoa, okay. >> everybody but one. neil is already on his way out to the surf spot and doesn't see flea's narrow escape. after a full 45 minutes of paddling, he reaches the point where waves are breaking. he sees a big wave coming and takes it. >> oh, he's dead. that guy's going to die. >> his balance is thrown off. and he falls really hard into the middle of the wave.

the wave lands on him. and you could tell even if he gets a breath after this one, it's going to be horrible. >> on shore, grant watches, and neil disappears below the massive wave. he scans the foaming water, hoping he'll surface. >> you can see his surf board sitting there and it's pulling. it has a rope to his leg. and it's pointing up the whole time, which means he's about 20 feet underwater. >> surfers call this tombstoning. neil is trapped deep underwater. a second wave, bigger than the first, crashes directly onto his board. >> i was looking up seeing daylight thinking i'm going to get a breath. then all of a sudden i dropped back down to the bottom like an elevator ride. i was hanging out there thinking, "okay, maybe i need to get some air. i'm starting to get a little bit worried." then it happened again, another boom. >> a third wave has broken overhead. the boom shoots neil up to the

surface and finally he catches a breath. but just as he gasps for air, he spots the jagged rocks and knows he's in deadly territory, the same place flea just narrowly escaped. "the bone yard." >> there was another 20-foot wall of whitewater coming toward me. and so i decided to grab onto the back of my board and point it toward the crack in between the rocks. somehow i managed to balance myself between the rocks and make it to the lagoon safely. >> neil was held underwater for almost a full minute, pummelled by three enormous waves before he drew a breath. it's amazing he's still alive. >> i don't think there's many wipeouts in the history of the sport that are nearly as bad as his. he lived, but he got lucky. there have been people that have died. >> neil paddles to shore through the foaming waves. he later discovers that the pounding whitewater broke his back. >> i couldn't do anything.

i was just that far under. it felt like i was going over the falls over and over again. >> but surfer dudes are built tough. a broken back didn't stop neil from returning to mavericks, even if this maverick now approaches the sport a little more cautiously. the rush he gets surfing is in his bones. >> when i finish every single ride i ever had at mavericks, i feel enlightened and i feel like i've done something just wonderful. so there you go. extreme athletes who are not just breaking barriers, they're smashing them to pieces again and again. if you have a video you'd like to send to us, you can log on to our website. caughtoncamera.msnbc.com. i'm contessa brewer. that's it for this edition of "caught on camera.

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