we were getting ready to flip a coin where they think the goose's fate was. i don't think the governor was going to call at that point. 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 done. >> 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 like nuts, but it's light fare compared to the bonedeath competition. >> 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. 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 your reward. 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 try to do jump the holy roller and bounces off the roller on my face. it was fun. >> in fact, matt had so much fun, he wants to try the stunt again. >> the first attempt 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, straightened out a couple more pieces of plywood and pedalled full throttle and went at it. >> it's not enough. >> he bounced himself off the tank and didn't hit him again. >> this time he doesn't jump to his feet. >> he wasn't moving. he was hurt and hurt bad. 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 know if he went 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, duncan doughnuts an got a bunch 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 is you're going to fall eventually. what gets me is you could fall 100 times, but the second you land that trick, it's completely

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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 in missoula, montana, and i'm a professional kayaker. >> this 23-year-old has been kayaking all his life and has traveled the globe traveling after rapid after churning rapid. >> what i've fallen in love with is the extreme side of kayaking. 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 him an adrenaline rush, but 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. 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 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. this is my third time. it's like 160, 180 feet tall, which is a little wild. nobody has come remotely close to running something this big. 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 out to check conditions at the lip of the waterfall. >> dude, the level seems absolutely perfect. i love the look of the

right-hand side slip. 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. >> 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 than mentally preparing, running it over and over 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, and another one on the shore with a lifeline. also video cameras to record

what will happen. >> i was prepared to walk away from it. 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, so i have time for conscious thought processes, am i making the right decision, which is a dangerous thi to be thinking when you're going off the waterfall. 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? >> down by the right, in the shadows. >> he's made it. he emerge from the shadow behind his friends as boats, still in the kayak with only a broken paddle to show for the brutal plunge. >> the impact was incredibly violent. i was jackknifed out of my tuck, thrown against the back of my kayak, the wind was knocked off me. >> he 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, reaching free fall and landing, but i have experienced acceleration like i've never felt before.

from 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? tyler? will he try to beat his new record? >> i don't envision myself winning 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 being ability to meet 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 to break the land speed record at murak dry lake in california. >> there was a little excitement in the air because ron was the number one. he was going to go fast. >> videographer mark bra sdplchltzzo is at the starting line. there to catch what they think will be another history-making day 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 rocket. >> mark watches as ron shoots down the track, disappearing into a cloud of dust. it's only later that he learns what happens next. ron moves up to fourth gear and hits the nitrous boost button. 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 make as split-second decision to abandon the bike, but as this terrifying video shows, his right leg is caught under the seat pulling him at almost 200 miles per hour along the hard, dusty surface. >> the bike dragged him like a horse would drag a cowboy. it was quite a ride.

>> the friction of his 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 and amazingly pulls 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. >> 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. it's part of the game and a matter of time before you're going to get in a wreck. >> you 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 for another shot at the record. mark 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. >> it's all broken up. >> i don't like riding that. ton of squirrelly. track conditions will be better. >> but ron is not about to back down. he's ready to get back on the bike and do what it is that he does best. break records. >> i'm in a cautious state of mind but still a little bit of nervousness there. there always is after a crash. just have to get back on the saddle and do it again. let's say i'm optimistically cautious. >> mark is manning his camera midway down the track.

>> i always want to make sure i get a shot of ron because he's 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. a he almost immediately ron flies through the air as the bike smashes to pieces in a cloud of dust. >> rider down! rider down! everybody move slach slach. >> he crashed at probably 200 miles an hour and there was quite a debris field. there was dust and motorcycle parts. it was difficult to see exactly where ron was. there was nothing moving out there. >> emts rushed to ron's side. eventually word comes back to the anxious spectators, incredibly, ron as survived once again. >> i hit the ground like a

meteorite, tumbling and tumbl g 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 bright sun, laying on the ground, on my backside going, hmm, maybe i'm in heaven now. maybe this all ended. >> he tests his limbs to see if they are still attached. >> when i lifted up the leg, my foot stayed on the ground. >> he has broken five bones in his right leg and 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'm 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 is going to do me in. maybe my recovery took three years for a reason. maybe it made me slow down and 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 that, dude. >> a clifftop crumbles and a mountain bike tumbles. >> i literally thought i was watching miles fall to his death. >> when "caught on camera: full throttle" continues. incentives, the lowest taxes in decades,

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christian is more than 3,000 feet above when suddenly -- it's august 3rd, 2006. he's in southwest norway. he strung the nylon chord himself testing each screw to make sure it's securely fastened. his only protection if he falls during the attempt is a safety harness attached to the line. if a chord or screws break, christian will plunge to his death. >> translator: there are a lot of things that can go wrong. for example, you can 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 of the canyon, like he's just sitting at the edge of the 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 the most difficult steps. the start is the most difficult. >> tentatively he takes a few steps. he tumbles. instinct tifly clinging to the rope for safety.

it's a reminder of how easily something 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 one-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 goal step by step. as he reaches the halfway point of the 39-foot crossing, he starts singing to himself. tiny voice in the vast canyon. seconds later --

>> whoo! >> -- he's made it! >> yes! whoo! >> 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! >> be careful. >> oh! >> oh, my -- >> a mountain biker plunges head over heels down a rocky cliff. >> it's hard to describe experience when you see another human being in the process of dying. >> january 1st, 2004, southern california. for experienced cyclists, bill and miles todd, a new year's day trail ride has become an annual

tradition. >> we try to do some kind of big ride every new year's day to start the day off right. >> reporter: his video camera is recording as they make their way along the clifftop paths. they have 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 above a dangerously steep top. miles decides to ride over the eroded area and moves his bike up the trail to get a running start. >> where we stopped, it looked pretty scary to me. i walked on by. as i'm walking my bike over i looked at the edge and thought, 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 the crux spot and he decided to put his foot down. >> he make it is but barely.

>> that's -- >> now it's miles' turn. he industtries the same techniq loses his balance and then suddenly, disaster. >> oh, hell! >> oh! >> you see him fall for a while and you see him hit and bounce and he's catching more air as he goes down. he just went shoulder after 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. >> you all right? >> sit down, sit down. >> bill puts the camera down as miles scrambles back up the stoney 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 unforgiven terrain.

my first thought was, that's it. i'm going to die. i was so focused on trying to grab at 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 make it is back to the path, he must bike in horrible pain back to the trailhead, more than ten miles away. >> my right hand was broken and left was badly strained and i also broke my glasses and i'm fairly nearsitghted so it was hard to see where i was going. but the movement kept me from going into shock. >> this hasn't deterred him from mountain biking. why would it? 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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in a blink of an eye, a piece of equipment fails or a driver makes a mistake and the boat could be 50 feet in the air, upside down and backwards. >> at first glance, conservatively dressed dave may look more like a banker than a daredevil but he's been racing hydroplanes for years and has been in pretty dramatic crashes. >> you're traveling at over a football field per second so if you are not anticipating what is 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 celebon of successful everything about it is bigr and badder and more extensive than you could possibly ever imagine.

>> dave says, imagine driving your car at over 200 miles per hour without springs or shocks. that's what it feels like to ride this thing. >> the environment of looking from the outside of a hydroplane, a wonderful, graceful vehicle that flies over the water. the truth is, the boat is beating the not out of the driver that's inside. >> dave fell in love with racing boats as a teenager. while most kids his age were outriding bicycles -- >> i started racing flat bottom boats a long time ago because that's what my uncle had done. it was a lot of fun and i progressed into bigger flat-bottom boats and 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 get the speed record. >> we're going to race against time and mother nature and see what we're made of. >> dave starts his record attempt. >> one of the problems with setting records, 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 one-kilometer runs. 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 per 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 boats rudder. >> okay, everybody. the race is on hold. we need to get him off the course. >> luckily, dave is not hurt in this record stunt. >> 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 at washington state ready to claim the record for the most consecutive race wins. this would be his 20th win in a row. but 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. the safety team got me to the bottom of the boat and cleared the waterways. >> amazingly, dave survives. his happened 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 may deter another driver from quitting altogether but dave is no quitter. >> i just felt i had something else to give and 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 saver. >> luckily, nobody has been hurt or killed significantly inside that capsule. >> years later, dave will have good reason to be thankful for

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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. >> 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. >> 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."

the battering waves give him no chance to relieve 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, and he takes it. >> oh, he's dead. that guy's 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 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.

a cruise liner is sinking. almost 600 lives hang in the balance and the captain is nowhere to be found. >> i was going mayday, we are sinking. he was saying what rank are you? i'm not actually a rank. i'm a guitarist." five kids plunge into frigid waters. >> if you don't do your job the best that you were trained with no hesitation, a child will die. >> a baby falls into a well. >> heartbreaking. you just wanted to reach down and pull them out of the ground. excuse me. >> lives on the line. >> police. >> these are the passengers of the airplane that is caught in the powerline.