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Of water here. can you make that kind of landing on the java sea in the storm? >> that's an interesting problem, too. it's been done especially in an inland waterway but at least in the united states and our flight simulators it's not possible to practice a water landing. before our water landing the only training we'd gotten in the water landing was a theoretical checklist and protocol and we had one chance to get right something we never anticipated and never specifically trained for and being in the open ocean would be a much more challenging situation and over water in general, it's terrai...

Had a ring site on my left eye. it gives you depth perception. plus the fact we're flying on snow. and in cloudy day, towards sunset, you can't make out the texture. it's just white. >> the plan is for boole to deploy his parachute at 600 feet, just after the lead wing-suit flier opens his. although it's dangerously low to the ground, boole is determined to capture as much of the flight as he can. >> so i was very committed to stay there until either he pulled or i just knew that we were at 600 feet. >> boole is more focused on getting the shot than his altitude until the other flier pulls his...

Quickly determines he has no choice but to ditch in the pacific. >> my mother mentioned that she didn't hear any yelling or screaming. she did hear a lot of praying in different languages. the mood was very, very serious. >> the pilot radios a nearby coast guard cutter for assistance. and a plan is formed. the stratocruiser will circle above the ship for the rest of the night, lightening its fuel load and waiting for daybreak. >> you want to be as light as you can because with less weight you can go slower. fly more slowly. so the impact on the water is going to be lessened. but also you want ...

>> april 10, 2009. kamchatka peninsula, russia. professional wing-suit pilot james boole is traveling to russia's far east to shoot a documentary on its extreme landscape. >> it's covered in snow for nine months a year. it has the most active volcanos than anyplace on the planet. they call it the land of fire and ice. >> it is the final leg of the trip, and he's eager to make it one of the most thrilling trips. >> we had done three other jumps that day. and it was obvious to everybody this was going to be the last jump because it was getting dark. we were nearly out of daylight. >> boole follo...

Your feet were squarely on the ground through that whole thing. >> i think it's baser in had any fear because i never saw it was coming at me. it didn't even push me a head. the plow driver said it was a bigger truck than he normally drives. this can throw it 25 feet, so we weren't stupid standing on the road but the depth perception of that shot makes it look like we were on the shoulder. we were off the road in a peach orchard and i thought safely off the road. we were in the middle of rural new jersey, the least populated county of new jersey, the bottom of the state, 100 miles south of whe...