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Defying the rules. >> theres no greater adrenaline rush. >> theres something wrong with me. >> defying the odds. >> it is just in my dna. >> i have a lot of fun and take a lot of physical abuse at the same time. >> even defying gravity. >> well, i think i would jump out of an airplane. >> when i do a big jump, anything can happen. >> it is all in a days work for the extreme athlete. >> what we are doing is really a different sport altogether.

>> in times of crisis, they rely on each other. >> i trust these guys with my life. if it took one of them guys going down also, i knew they would do that. we would do that for each other. its a brotherhood. >> "caught on camera: extreme rescues." welcome to "caught on camera." im contessa brewer. youre in a life-or-death situation and you cant help yourself. often survival depends not just on luck, but also on the heroic acts of another person. they might be trained rescue professionals or simp...

>> im like is he dead? because hes not responding. >> at the bottom of the wall of rock, eric comes to. >> i looked at my hands, saw a bloody mess, checked myself out, immediately stood up. >> and it dawns on him, amazingly, hes still alive. >> i knew i had just been part of a miracle. modern day miracle caught on tape. >> david now has to rappel to his friend in the canyon below. >> i asked him what happened, you okay. he just shows me his hands and his hands were just all blistery, all meaty. ...

The bucket, fulford decides bruce needs to come up first. >> we knew that individual was under more stress than the other two. >> hold it! >> all right. hold on. >> its a quick ride up, only two minutes. but bruce boyles cant get his feet on steady ground fast enough. >> glad to be back. >> next, its kims turn. and shes pulled to safety in a matter of minutes too. >> the adrenaline rush just knowing that you were being rescued. anything that was remotely a concern quickly went out the window. >>...

Defying the rules. >> theres no greater adrenaline rush. >> theres something wrong with me. >> defying the odds. >> it is just in my dna. >> i have a lot of fun and take a lot of physical abuse at the same time. >> even defying gravity. >> well, i think i would jump out of an airplane. >> when i do a big jump, anything can happen. >> it is all in a days work for the extreme athlete. >> what we are doing is really a

Welcome back to "caught on camera." im contessa brewer. on a warm summer day, a rafting trip nearly turns fatal when beginners encounter a river, wild and swollen with snow melt. the rescue that follows is a high wire act and its caught on not just one, but two cameras. novice rafters get the ride of a lifetime, and wind up cheating death. >> it was shocking to see the peril that these people were in. >> californias kearn river is a scenic, natural wonder and a popular play ground. >> one of the...

>> i thought of wesson oil, you know, give some lubrication. >> wesson oil, not exactly a technique you learned in rescue school, but hes trained to solve problem fast. so he dispatches people, including pauls brother tommy, to come back with the popular vegetable oil. >> so we said, okay, well be right back. >> they returned within minutes, passing the lubricant into the waiting hands of captain roy. >> i started just pouring it onto him where i could splash him a little bit and let it run down...

Build rigging below him just to make sure he didnt slip down any farther. >> next, tom smith with the l.a. county sheriffs department is able to slip a rope around paul from above, and he starts pulling. >> i was pulling on him so hard that i couldnt believe it. it should have lifted someone twice his size. >> is it doing anything? >> no. >> paul is wedged in so tight rescuers worry if they pull too hard, theyll yank an arm right out of its socket. >> thats it. thats it. keep it up. keep it up. ...

Answer is now that its coming to american homeland, its not make it easy for people to get ar-15s or any other weapons. >> oh stop. >> absolutely. >> we had such a nice segment going too. another segment and another time. thank you very much. next on the rundown, does president obama know how to fight the war on terror? there is now a major dissent from state department officials and disturbing warning from the head of the sfx: climbing sounds duracell quantum lasts longer so kevin jorgeson can ...

Down a towering cliff but loses control and falls 100 feet to the bottom. >> i thought for sure that my life was coming to an end. >> hey, you okay? >> in the summer of 2009, eric shrever and david cardona are hiking through utahs zion national park. theyre both experienced canyoneers, skilled at getting through canyons by any means possible. that includes climbing, rappeling or even swimming. >> ive always loved the outdoors. ive been an avid hiker. but this canyoneering sport, it takes hiking ...