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The group launches their boats. and 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, just 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 dangerous, and i just stayed where i was. >> further down the river, ed h...

The united states, and it flows really fast. >> but the river has a dark side as well. 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 kern river since they started keeping stats. >> the river's nickname is the killer kern. >> on a warm june day in 2010, two friends, mike mccave and ed flickinger, decide to try raf...