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As a precaution, a large team is standing on the banks of the river with throw rope on hand. one of them is eric nugturn. >> in a class 5 river, something where the group you're with is probably the most important decision you can make because they're really the ones that are there to save you if you make a big mistake. >> the team has already surveyed the rapid, and now they're ready to tackle it. >> first raft lines up nicely. raft goes over the waterfall, and then they come through that unscathed. and, you know, it was a big cheer. and then the second raft had, actually, a really clean run ...

>> naomi surfaces far beyond the last person standing on the river banks with throw rope. and everyone knows they have to act now. only 50 yards downstream is another set of dangerous rapids and a huge drop. naomi, who has taken a beating in the cold water, has little left in her. >> she's not swimming like any of the other people who came out. they swam like hell. so she has no energy left. she just rolled like a rag doll. it was really frightening to watch because that's a person who's really almost unable to save themselves now. >> it's going to take an incredible throw to save her. >> the ...

Ready with throw rope and quickly helps him to safety. >> so that certainly didn't go unnoticed by the fourth raft. when they ran through, as the raft was lining up, everything looked good, they were maneuvering well. >> all we see is the boat just come over this falls and just stop. it almost kind of stops vertically, like it didn't hit the water and skip forward. it just kind of plugs into the water, and what we see is really scary. >> the guide in the back lands on his head in the middle of the raft as the others use their oars to try to steer away from the powerful current, but the raft is...

Because you get a little bit of air, you get shoved to the bottom of the river, then you come up. and that's the most frightening part is, we know she's getting tired. we've seen her swimming. she's tried to swim away from this raft a number of times and she just gets sucked right back to it. >> let go of the boat! >> john lane screams to her to let go of the boat. they need her to go downstream if there's going to be any chance of saving her. finally naomi lets go of the boat. then she disappears into the white froth. >> and i just wait and i watched. and nothing came up. and then about 40 fe...

Video camera that day and gets on top of the rocks to film the rafters coming through. as a precaution, a large team is standing on the banks of the river with throw rope on hand. one of them is eric nugturn. >> in a class 5 river, something where the group you're with is probably the most important decision you can make because they're really the ones that are there to save you if you make a big mistake. >> the team has already surveyed the rapid, and now they're ready to tackle it. >> first raft lines up nicely. raft goes over the waterfall, and then they come through that unscathed. and, yo...