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I didn't really know what to compare it with. >> despite the boiling current, the group launches their boats. within moments, everything goes wrong. >> we saw that tree coming right in front of us and then we hit it head-on. there was nothing that could be done to stay in that boat. >> i was in the current and things happened so fast, that i don't remember exactly the sequence of things. but i grabbed on to that tree. >> grateful to be alive, mike clambers into the tree and considers his options. >> the current was so strong that i couldn't even move a couple of yards upstream. it was very dan...

And he tried about three times. >> you're basically hovering three or four feet off the ground, trying to stay in one spot, trying to hold on, trying not to knock him out and get this thing around his head, where eventually he's going to have to let go with both hands to get it up underneath his armpits and around him. >> this is the most dangerous moment of the whole rescue. if mccabe loses his footing now, it could be fatal. >> he would have been swept down river. whether he survived or not, i don't know. >> but nelson's timing is perfect. >> i was able to get this drop around him and gave t...

One that keeps the rescue team at the kearn county sheriff's office busy. >> people go in and swim or fall in and they get tired fighting the current, and they drown. >> the boulders that are just under water level, they're the size of a volkswagen. that's usually what people smash into. we've had over 250 actual drownings in the kearn river since they started keeping stats. >> the river's nickname is the killer kearn. >> on a warm june day in 2010, two friends, mike mccave and ed flickimer, decided to try rafting for the first time. with a group of friends, two rafts and two guides, they head...

Ground, trying to stay in one spot, trying to hold on, trying not to knock him out and get this thing around his head, where eventually he's going to have to let go with both hands to get it up underneath his armpits and around him. >> this is the most dangerous moment of the whole rescue. if mccabe loses his footing now, it could be fatal. >> he would have been swept down river. whether he survived or not, i don't know. >> but nelson's timing is perfect. >> i was able to get this drop around him and gave the signal. that's when we came up through the tree, and we were about 25 feet up above t...

At the kearn county sheriff's office busy. >> people go in and swim or fall in and they get tired fighting the current, and they drown. >> the boulders that are just under water level, they're the size of a volkswagen. that's usually what people smash into. we've had over 250 actual drownings in the kearn river since they started keeping stats. >> the river's nickname is the killer kearn. >> on a warm june day in 2010, two friends, mike mccave and ed flickimer, decided to try rafting for the first time. with a group of friends, two rafts and two guides, they head for the river. when they get t...