otherwise they would not be getting on those surfboards.s here to raise money for an animal rescue charity. organizers held preevent surf lessons so the dogs were propped for the big day. you and i both know having four legs on a surfboard is better. when you have to stand up on two, it's tough stand up. >> i've never successly been able to get up. i can do it, the skim boarding. i can do that. >> skim boarding, i agree. but the day after trying to do stuff like tharkts i'm always aching. here's to the four-legged dogs that got it done. >>> congress returns from their week-long july 4th break. lawmakers are promising to lower interest rates on college student loans which doubled last monday. >>> 650,000 defense department employees begin fur lows today. about 85% of the department's nearly 900,000 civilians around the world will be furloughed one day each week over the next few months due to the sequester. >>> happy birthday to jaden smith, 15, toby keith, 52 and kevin bacon, 55. >>> here's what's coming up on the "today" show. a live inter

or surfboarder, but how many parks have no pogo stunting or tricks? nowhere. >>> this is always an unsettling sight, a big shark taking big bites out of the most dangerous coast right now in the world which is the western coast of australia and the university of western australia is teaming up with new inventors to help make divers and surfers less of a target when wearing a wet suit. >> and i know i have been in the wet suit for over 20 years and we get commonly asked what color do the sharks like. you don't want to look like a seal. >> and this is called the shark mitigation systems, and the group in australia realized that the last few seconds of the attack, the shark relies on sight, so they have come up with patterns that they believe will help protect divers and surfers against shark attacks. >> it is about the water and being out and constantly going back into the ocean knowing that they have an extra level of protection. >> this striped suit that you see here is called the shark attack mitigation system or s.a.m.s. and the shark will see the s

now imagine you're standing at the bottom of that wall on a surfboard. it's a life or death proposition. >> if you fall there, you're probably not coming home. >> a professional surfer and ocean explorer garrett mcnamara tackles the biggest and baddest waves the ocean has to offer. and it's the promise of a whopper that bringing him, girlfriend nicole and a video crew to the coast of portugal in november 2011. what was once a completely individual sport has evolved over time. toe surfing, where one person on a jet ski pulls another on a surfboard, allows surfers to catch waves that were once out of reach. they were just too far out to paddle to. simply put, this raises the stakes and the danger level. >> surfing is such a -- i don't know for lack of a better word maybe a selfish sport. it's us our surfboard, catching our wave not wanting anybody else on our wave. with toe surfing, now you have a partner. so there's that relationship. and that all plays on every given moment. >> on this day, garrett is the designated tower. his friends, al and andrew, cat

techniques that we use to put an unconscious person on the surfboard, we grab their wrists, put it on the board, flip it over one time and then you flip it a second time so the board would be back right side up, straddle your body over him. he's conscious but exhausted. you just tell him, help me paddle as much as you can. the ability to create products that are inflatable today, that are strong, light, we can roll it up, we can inflate it, the technology is there. there is a lot of people that played key roles in the development of the rescue ski. we were the ones with the idea, but we needed to help get the officials to realize that, hey, you know what, this is a tool, not a toy. i remember the first couple times going on patrol and all the surfers were, you know, flipping me off, and then hurricane aniki came, and the surf was 50 feet right there on that particular day. i was supposed to do our very first jet ski training class, and i remember telling the lifeguard, i don't know if i'm ever going to come back. i don't know if i'm going to live through this. people just were crying

>> a surfer in hawaii is talking about the run in with a shark that last his leg torn up and the surfboard with a big bite. the shark was in the murky waters duringnesscy and the man learned the hard way getting in the water before a storm can be a bad idea. >> i was on the board and a tiger shark came right next to my leg and it bit me and i had reaction time and hit it on the face and it turned around. >> the gash on the board is identical to the gash on his leg extending from the knee and the student is not expected to be fully mobile if a couple of months. >> we have learned an off-duty firefighter is among the riders arrested in the pay lay after a surfing contest in on county works for the city of fullerton and is placed on leave. the riot broke out in huntington beach on sunday. >> facebook is getting a lot more "likes" from investors. >> apple is accused of underpaying thousands of employees. >> apple is facing a lawsuit who were forced to wait in line 15 minutes to half an hour a shift to be checked for shoplifting but were not paid for the time. the lawsuit is seeking class actio

her little girl got on a surfboard. her brother helping her to shore. while cassandra's mother ran to barbara. >> i looked down and her ankle was mangled. it was horrid. >> reporter: dr. mark hannah treated barbara, taking these pictures of her puncture wounds. >> this would be a significant bite. >> i was just thankful there was a foot there. >> reporter: cassandra and her mother are thankful, too. >> barbara corey is -- a lifelong hero for me. she saved my children. >> she's such a sweet woman. and she's just amazing. >> reporter: an instructor who may now see as a lifesaver. and barbara says the shark attack won't scare her away from the water for good. but it will take her some time until she's back to surfing. her doctor tells us it will be five months before she is fully recovered. she's been doing it for 50 years. >> boy. >> and in shallow water, no less. >> thank you, aditi. >>> time, now, for the weather. let's get it to ginger zee, who is outside this morning. >> good morning, guys. it's sticky and a muggy start to the day. but we had a downri

. >> another swimmer sees him racing him back to shore and offers his surfboard. >> they start carrying i came out behind him and laid him on the beach. he was blue. >> life guards and the paramedics frantically tried to revive ray but he was flatlining, no pulse. >> he was close to death. knocking on the door. >> he has swallowed more than a gallon of saltwater and rushed to the hospital clinging to life. he is in a coma for two days and on the third day against all odds ray wakes up. >> he think i was probably as close to death as somebody can come. the doctors at the hospital told me i was the worse drowning victim they ever saw to live to talk about it. >> his injuries are severe. >> i hit so hard i had two brain contusions with a helmet on. my collarbone was shattered in half in four places. torn rotator cuff. two broken ribs. a bruised lung and chemical pneumonia. >> this daredevils cameraman can barely move but still directing the action from his hospital bed. >> let's get that shoulder. got it all? >> it was the most excruciating pain you could ever imagine. broken bones are lik

. >> like a surfboard. a jockstrap. >> stephanie: a female bob filner. hello, ken. >> caller: vietnam veteran on bradley manning. >> stephanie: okay. >> caller: i went through some of what he went through back then. we had admiralty trials for some race relation stuff from, you know, when we were in the dmz but that's separate from what i wanted -- the point i wanted to make. bradley manning is facing 136 years for going -- >> which he probably won't get. >> caller: which he probably won't get but the marines just released a convicted killer of a retired policeman in iraq, all of his squad members got 18 months. he got 11 years. he's out in five for dragging a guy out from his family, shooting them in the head in the ditch and leaving them for dead. that's all i gotta say. >> stephanie: he'll take no further questions. >> i don't think we know all of the details of what he just said. it is hard to comment on something -- >> stephanie: it is like the zimmerman trial. people go what about this? okay. that's a

. >> i put straps on a surfboard and pulled it behind a boat and turned into something totally differentp in the air did. >> i'm a flipper. that's what i love to do. >> last year 4 million people went for a ride hoping to grab some air, try some tricks and not end up, as they say, doing a face plant in the water. he went pro at 11 years old and now at 24 is one of the top ranked wake boarders in the world. >> what do you love about wakeboarding. >> there's a lot to love about it. for me, it's endless possibilities you can do. there's so much room for it to grow still. >> this is your office. not bad. >> it's a pretty descent office. >> i wouldn't mind it. how much water will i be drinking today? >> well, hopefully not much. i think you'll be fine. you'll get up on your first 3 to 5 tries. >> i hope you're right. let's give it a go. >> why do you always have me do these things? why. >> with my heart pounding, i was ready for action. >> all right. you ready? >> for me, getting up was the easy part. it was staying up that i needed to work on. >> nice job natalie. >> reporter: i quickly lear