witness the challenges they face every day. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." i 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. >> everybody move. >> and falling further. >> oh, my. >> never turning down a challenge. >> the whole crowd was 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 stud setting reports, 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 when your mother said "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, seeing a jumping competition over an unusual but tasty obstacle. >> we're going to run over the world's biggest plate of delicious tacos. >> as the riders demonstrate their skills above a giant bowl of tortilla chips it becomes

clear that, like nachos, riders 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 that you'll see in a back street parking lot. over a plate of nachos that probably will ever exist in the bmx, or humanity in general. >> the nachos event may seem absolutely nuts, but it's light fare compared to the aptly named bonedeath competition. an event steve covered in 2006 in massachusetts. >> we're riding in a swamp on some garbage. >> the scene in new bedford was probably one of the weirdest scenes i have ever witnessed, a course basically built in between two buildings, build on a swamp.

>> bmx rider paul herrane built it. >> it started out as a bet. just built the most ridiculous possible things you could think of, and have everybody come out, throw money into a hat, and say, hey, look, if you have something you want to do and you think it's worth a prize, you do it, and i'll tell you what your reward could be for doing it. it got everyone to push themselves. >> they had riders jumping off ledges, riding down rails, riding across like 2 by 6s. they went so far as to have dead animals on the landings. >> one of the daredevil riders who sticks out 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.

>> 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 "bonedeath." egging me on. >> matt charges down the makeshift runway. >> when i saw matt pedaling, i was a bit concerned? >> concerned? not a word you here often among these events, but steve was right to be concerned. matt falls short of the landing and crashes to the ground. steve interviews him just moments later. >> what just happened? >> i tried to jump the holly 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 made his first attempt to jump the holly roller, it was scary enough to watch him bounce off 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, he straightened out a couple more pieces of plywood and pedaled full throttle at this thing, really went at it. >> it's not enough. >> he bounced his head off the back of that septic tank and threw him another couple of feet down to the ground again. >> this time he doesn't jump to his feet. >> he wasn't moving. he was hurt and hurt bad. >> that's what scared us.

>> matt! matt! hey! >> someone called the paramedics. >> 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. within the next week i probably hopped 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 left with the ambulance or not. i think he turned them down. i think he went and got some food. >> he probably just went to, like, dunkin' donuts and got a bunch of munchkins. >> or perhaps they think 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 is you're going to fall eventually. what really gets me is the fact that you could fall like a hundred times, but the second you land that trick, it's

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tyler bradt is one of them. >> my name is tyler bradt. i live in missoula, montana, and i'm a professional kayaker. >> this 23-year-old has been kayaking all his life and travels the globe, tackling rapid after churning white water rapid. >> what i've fallen in love is kind of the extreme side of kayaking. basically, running difficult rivers, 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 lifetime 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, 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 that waterfall. it was amazing. >> the ride over alexandra falls didn't just give tyler a major adrenaline rush, he also gained the world record for the highest waterfall anyone had successfully kayaked over. tyler thought he had reached the limit of what was possible in a kayak. no one 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. it was 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 tyler leaves 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 like between 160, 180 feet tall, which is a little wild, you know? nobody has even come remotely close to running anything this big. you know, it's a big gray area. nobody knows what happens when you fall from 180 feet. so, definitely makes you a little scared for sure, thinking about it. >> tyler and his kayaking partner russ sturgis go out to check conditions at the lip of the waterfall. >> dude, the level seems absolutely perfect. i love the look of the righthand

side lip. i think that the landing's safe. there's really 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. >> 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 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 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 process. am i making the right decision? which is a dangerous thing to be thinking when you're going off a waterfall. and as soon as the water takes hold, your kayak begins to accelerate. everything goes away, and you're simply focused on running the waterfall.

>> 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? >> where you at? >> dude, down by the right, in the shadows! >> he's made it! he emerges from the shadow of the falls behind his friend's boats. amazingly, he's unarmed, still in his kayak, with only a broken paddle to show for the brutal plunge into the pounding water. >> the impact was incredibly violent. i have jackknifed out of my tuck, thrown against the back of my kayak, the wind was knocked off me. >> tyler later discovers that it was even bigger than he estimated. 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 i experienced acceleration like i've never felt before and within a matter of seconds, you go from being at the top of the waterfall 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. but that's what i said after i ran alexandra, though. it's hard to tell what the future will hold, but i'm looking forward to finding that out and continuing my lifestyle as a kayaker, traveling the world and blg being able to meet and experience amazing people alongside incredible locations. coming up, a speeding motorcycle smashes to pieces. >> he crashed at probably 200 miles an hour. nothing moving out there. and are these guys flipping

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a motorcycle racer pushes the limit, and gets dragged hundreds of yards by a runaway bike. it's june 28th, 1998, legendary show-stopper ron cook is out to break the 200-mile-per-hour land speed motorcycle record at murak dry lake in california. >> there was a little excitement in the air, because ron was the number one bike and we knew he was going to give us a good number. we knew he was going to go fast. >> videographer mike brazzo is at the starting line, there to catch what they think will be another history-making day for ron cook. after all, ron has already smashed several other speed 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 they think is a rocket. >> mark watches as ron shoots down the track, disappearing into a cloud of dust. it's only later he learns what happens next. ron moves up to fourth gear and hits the nitrous boost button. he gains enough force power 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. >> and the bike actually dragged him like a horse would drag a cowboy, so it was quite a ride. >> the friction of ron's body against the ground burns through

his protective suit. in another moment, it will tear his skin to shreds. somehow, ron flips his body over, then, amazingly, he 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 thank the lord that i'm still here, with minor injuries, not too bad. >> hey, ron. >> 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're going to 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 going to get back on that motorcycle. >> but ron has a new worry. track conditions don't look good. >> the dirt here is all broken up. i don't like running on that loose stuff, because it can get kind of squirrely. track conditions could definitely be better. >> but ron's 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 made some changes on the motorcycle and the changes, i'm confident, but it's still a little bit of nervousness there. there always is after a crash. just got to get back on the saddle and do it again. but to say i'm just optimistically cautious. >> as ron prepares his bike, 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, ron 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 about 200 miles an hour and there was quite a debris field. there was debris flying everywhere. there was dust, motorcycle parts. it was difficult to see exactly where ron was. there was nothing moving out there. >> emts rushed to ron side. eventually word comes back to the anxious spectators. incredibly, ron has survived once again. >> i hit the ground like a

meteorite, tumbling and tumbling. felt like i was in the 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, 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 my foot stayed on the ground. >> ron has broken five bones in his right leg. this time, 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 just amazed that i could go that far and still come out alive. >> ron not only survives, he has a new record, but not the one he was aiming for.

his latest entry in the record books is for surviving the highest speed motorcycle crash, and that record is good enough for ron cook. after a long period of recovery, he retires from racing. >> i survived two bad accidents. i should have died in both of them. maybe the third one's going to do me in. maybe my recovery took three years for a reason. maybe it made me slow down and made me say, you know what, son, you've done enough. coming up, balancing on the brink. a high-wire walker steps into danger. and -- >> look at the penalty for failure, due. >> a clifftop crumbles and a mountain biker tumbles. >> i literally thought i was watching miles fall to his death. >> when "caught on camera: full throttle" continues. making a fist something we do to show resolve. to defend ourselves.

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the senate is in session tonight as a midnight deadline looms for the expiration of key provisions of the patriot act. majority leader mitch mcconnell just called for a move towards voting on a house-backed bill, which changes the controversial program involving bulk collection of americans' phone records, but keeps it in tact. the roadblock to that is senator rand paul. he has vowed to block any attempt today to keep the provisions from expiring and is under senate rules, he has the ability to at least delay any vote. now back to our programming. 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 or climb higher or take bigger chances than the rest of us? our next risk taker as han 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 ford. he's attempting the world's highest slack line walk when suddenly -- it's august 3rd, 2006. christian is astop kirad mountain in southwest norway. he's strung the nylon cord himself, testing each screw, and edging along the wire checking it inch by inch. his only protection if he falls during the attempt will be a safety harness attached to the line. if the cord or screws break, christian will plunge to his death. >> translator: there are a lot of things that can do wrong. for example, you could have something sharp in your pocket that can 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 anyone can relax perched so high above the rocky cliffs, but with his feet dangling over the edge koof 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 on to 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. >> 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 it's only 1 inch thick. christian is 3,280 feet in the air. that's 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 -- >> whoo-hoo! >> he's made it. >> yeah! >> immediately after the stunt, christian tries to explain why he took on the challenge. >> 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 damned good to come home and sit on the sofa and relax. be careful -- >> oh, [ muted ]. >> oh, no. >> oh, my god. >> a mountain biker plunges head over heels down a rocky cliff. >> it's a hard to describe experience, you think you see another person in the process of dying. >> cariso gorge, southern

california. for experience bikers, a new year's day trail ride has become an annual tradition. >> we try to do a big ride every new year's day, to start the year off right. >> bill's helmet camera is recording as the men make their way along the narrow cliff top paths. this section of the trail is crumbling along the edge, leaving just inches to spare above a dangerously steep drop. >> look at the penalty for failure, dude. >> miles decides to try riding over the eroded area and moves his bike back up the trail to get a running start. >> i walked on by. as i'm walking my bike over there, you know, 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, which is the nastiest spot along the trail and decided to put a foot down

and sort of try to get through that area. >> he makes it, but barely. >> now it's miles' turn. he tries the same technique, but lose as his balance. suddenly, disaster. >> oh -- [ muted ]. >> oh, my god! >> oh, hell. oh, god! >> you see him fall for a while and see him hit and bounce and catching more air as he goes down, and went shoulder over shoulder, and i really 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. >> you all right! >> sit down, sit down, sit down. >> sit down a minute, miles, until you know everything's connected. >> bill puts the camera down as 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

for 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 really wasn't thinking about how much it hurt. >> but miles will have plenty of time to feel exactly how much it hurt once he makes it back to the path, he must bike, in horrible pain, back to the trail head, more than ten miles away. >> my right hand was broken and my left wrist was very bradly sprained. i had also broken my glasses and i'm fairly near sighted, 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' cliff-top tumble hasn't deterred him from mountain biking. why would it? like all these daredevils, he's soon back at it, just six weeks after the accident, he's riding in a 24-hour race in arizona. >> people ask me if i learned

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than you could possibly ever imagine. >> dave says, imagine driving your car at 200 miles an hour, over 2 and 3-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, this is this wonderful, graceful feek that flies over the water, the truth is, the boat is actually beating the snot out of the driver that's inside. >> dave fell in love with racing boats as a teenager. while most kids his age were out racing bicycles. >> i started out racing flat bottom boeksboats a long time a. it was a lot of fun and i progressed into bigger flat bottom boats, managed to set a lot of world records and win a lot of championships. >> from there, 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 straightaway speed racer. >> we'll be racing hard this week against time and mother nature. >> 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. >> everybody pay attention, the course is live. >> the speed record is calculated by averaging the time over two 1-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. the 25. >> 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. >> broke the rudder bracket, smacked the propeller, and then cleared the propeller and strut off the boat. >> but it's a very different story seven years earlier. dave was at the columbia cut 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 raw. at top speed, the force is too much and the hydroplane blows over. the top of the boat crashes on

to 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, underwater. the safety team got there right away, got me up on to the bottom of the boat, they cleared the airway, got the water out of the way. >> 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 something more to give for the sport and things to prove to myself. >> dave and the team rebuild "miss budweiser," redesigning the driver's capsule to make it safer. >> and luckily, to date, since we've done that, nobody's 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 looses 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 broken 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.

>> there's such an unexpected and unanticipated and an unpredictable sport. i think people watch because they know when something happens, it's going to be big. coming up, wipeout! >> oh, my gosh! >> he's down. >> he's dead. that guy's going to die. >> a surfer is trapped underwater, pounded by giant waves. >> and you could tell, even if he gets a breath after this one, it's going to be horrible. >> when "caught on camera: full throttle" continues.

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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 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 will be unlike anything else that would happen to a surfer 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 biggest waves we had seen. >> the waves were powerful enough to give even the most experienced 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. >> he came up to get his breath and the next wave came right on him, beat him down into that, 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." the battering waves give flea no chance to release himself. >> 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 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 and takes it. >> he got it! oh, my god! >> oh, he's dead. that guy is going to die. >> his balance was 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 foamy 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 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. >> he was held underwater for almost a full minute, pummeled 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 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 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.

parents who will stop at nothing to save their baby. and it's caught on a surveillance camera. >> you are taking my child, you're going to die. >> a brazen jewelry heist. thwarted by an even more brazen granny. >> i know how to smack your hand. >> a stick-up and, yeah, that's an actual stick. >> i was like, oh, my god. you're kidding me. >> thieves and thugs caught in the act. >> it's bullying in america at its worst. it's caught on video. >> sometimes stopped in their tracks by everyday people. >> i didn't care if he had a gun. >> the crimes are cruel. >> i'm angry at what they did to