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At this point. he's had a few vodka cranberries. >> but as the boozy b.a.s.e. jumper prepares to take the plunge -- >> a patrol officer pulls up. >> police. >> don't even think about it. pull it back up right now. >> i'll sit here and wait for you. >> options are "a," get in the back of a cop car with a guy who looked pretty pissed. b.a.s.e. jump over an ocean. i'm going to "b" any day. >> i'm sorry. i got to do it. >> the guy does it. does a little roll in the sky, pops the chute out. then there he is on the beach. >> after a perfect landing on the beach, he then lands in jail. ultimately con...

It. >> ah, dude, than ax lot, man. geez, i aem t -- i'm trying to this -- >> i'm a base jumper and i jump off of bridges and an teb nas and parachutes and now i am sitting on more base jumps than anybody on the planet. >> but dasher takes it to the next level when a buddy of his makes a unique request. >> a friend of mine makes packing movies, and he asked me if i could jump out of the plane with a kayak. >> he loves skydiving kayaking is is a different story. >> and kayaks and river is a scary sport, because your legs are locked into the boat, and as soon as you get upside down, and you have ...

The ramp has been redesigned to ensure truck driver safety. rob still marvels at how he wound up at the right place at the right time, even though it was the wrong place and the wrong time for the driver. >> the fact that i had my camera set up and pointed towards the ramp when the truck was coming down. i can't imagine -- i am speechless. the timing couldn't have been more perfect. you never think that anything like this is going to happen when you are going out on a shoot. coming up, a base jumper overextends himself with brutal consequences. >> before i could even really know what's happe...

>> ted is a seasoned base jumper, with more than 600 jumps under his belt, not even a number of nasty crashes have deterred his enthusiasm. he makes sure to stay focused on his number one priority. >> not dying. challenging base jumping to be able to do it successfully and safely and wake up and do it, again. incredibly dangerous sport and there are a lot of risks and only experience safety and making smart decisions. lets you continue on in the sport. >> on this day, ted and his friends believe they have everything figured out. >> we talked about this jump, what we were going to do. >> you're...

A base jumper's ambitious acrobatics send him crashing into the bottom of a rocky canyon. >> before i could even know what's happening, bang, i hit the ground. >> july 23rd, 2009. rifle, colorado. base jumper ted davenport and his friends are preparing to 817 of the hotel. >> i was one of the first persons to ever jump this object and the shape of the cliff is about half a mile around and it is formed into a w, if you look at it from afar. so that's why i named it the w hotel. and that day we were jumping room 817, which is 817 feet. has a really flat takeoff. drive right to the exit point and...