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In 2004, he decides to see just how fast he can drive his legendary hydro plane, miss budweiser and try for the straightway speed record. >> we'll be racing against time and mother nature. we'll see what we're made of. >> dave doesn't let his nerves show. >> 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 one-kilometer runs. >> 9.83. >> the speed to beat is 198 miles per hour. dave is buckled in and hits the gas. >> he...

>> in the blink of an eye, a piece of equipment fails or a driver makes a mistake, a boat could be 50 feet up in the air. upside down or backwards. >> at first glance, dave might look more like a banker than a daredevil, but he's been racing hydroplanes for years and been in some pretty dramatic crashes. >> you're traveling at over a football field per second. so if you aren't anticipating what what's 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 engine. >> it is a celebration...

Over. the top of the boat crashes onto the water, exploding the protective canopy, ripping off his oxygen mask and submerging him in the water. >> i was unconscious under water. the safety team got there right away, got me onto the bottom of the boat. they cleared the airway and got the water out. >> 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 things to prove to myself and give to the sp...

Dave is at hooters. let's say dave doesn't want people to know he is there. >> they have good wings. >> dave and i go to a restaurant and he doesn't want people to know he was at a restaurant and i take a photoof dave and tag that dave was at that restaurant in facebook it checks him in to that location and going around whatever you have set in your privacy. >> how do you stop that, though. >> go in your settings and undertagging disallow people to tag you in photos. by allowing them to tag you are letting you in. if i am at hooters. >> but more frightening for parents. they have a young 13 or...

>> what about the gps thing from pictures. i was in connecticut. >> all phones have gps. it knows where you are at all times . yeah, let's say people wrote me on facebook. maybe if i took my day off of work and i was at a barobaseball. they get caught in a business person special because they were home sick and somebody check in on facebook and they find out i was at a philly's game. >> it is right smack in the [ph-eultsdz]. you can't miss it on your ikes ash phone. do what clayton wants you to do. >> dave and i will be at hooters after the show. >> we know that. >> getting to the news. captur...