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Water, rode it. it's the stuff of madness. >> i mean, it's always been one of my lifelong dreams to be in the water with one of them, and i took it, i jumped in, and i grabbed on to its fin and it took me for a short ride which was an experience of a lifetime. >> most people run a mile from sharks, rather than jump on top of it, did you not worry it might eat you, drag you under the water? do something horrible to you like sharks tend to do? >> well, i've been around sharks for many years. i've dove with bull sharks and very aggressive sharks, and i know that they're harmless creatures. their ...

It so many things are going through your head, you don't realize you're holding on to a 30 foot whale shark that weighs approximately 50,000 pounds. you only realize it when approximately 50,000 pounds. you only realize it when you look back at the video and watch what you actually did. >> what's next on the dream bucket list? hammer head sharks? great whites? where are you going next? >> i'm not too sure about that yet. i mean, every day is another adventure if we go fishing. so -- >> do you worry at all about the poor old sharks in all this? is it good for them to have human beings clamoring...

Does he have. but at the same time, piers, my son is alive, i can talk to him every day. >> bill, what is your message to the families, who may be watching, who may have children in a similar position, late teens or early 20s who have been in mental institutions for a few days at a time. a similar pattern to what you went through. what is your advice to them? >> don't hide it. having mental illness 234 your family, should not be embarrassing. act on it, like we did. we saved our son's life. we possibly saved the lives of many others, but our son is still alive. and everybody is safe. we didn't...

You have to come to chinatown. >> that's morgan spur log. i actually love about every six, seven weeks to march ten blocks up the upper east in manhattan and get a big mac and a large fries. >> you just walked a half a mile to get it. >> exactly. >> i recommend -- >> that kind of balances it out a little bit. most people are driving that ten blocks. >> do you ever sneak a big mac in? >> never. not since march 2nd, 2003. >> not a single one. >> there's so many better places to get a burger that i wouldn't do that to myself. >> are you allergic to it? >> when it hits my mouth, it tastes like che...

Taking his life. i do believe that was his intention. my son wanted to die. so i had to do what i did as a mother to save my son. >> as the way it is right now, our son is in -- >> i was going to say, it's heartbreaking to hear this. >> it is heartbreaking, but our son is alive. >> he's in jail, but he's alive. >> and other people in our community are alive as well. >> safe. >> in a way, you lost your son potentially. i mean, if he's convicted of the offenses for which he's being charged. faces a very long sentence, how do you feel about that? >> it is heartbreaking. and it -- i -- you know, i...