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It's a decision that may have saved his life. >> it was a week later. a gentleman did the same thing up around denver. he hook turned it and hit the ground. he's dead. >> ferguson survives the impact, but he doesn't escape injury. >> i broke eight bones. i bruised my left lung. my arm was yanked out of its socket. all the nerves and stuff like that. >> every nerve is severed and ferguson loses all feeling and movement in his left arm. three and a half months after the accident, he makes a difficult decision. >> i literally asked them to take my arm off. it was cumbersome. it was doing nothing....

A gentleman did the same thing up around denver. he hook turned it and hit the ground. he's dead. >> ferguson survives the impact, but he doesn't escape injury. >> i broke eight bones. i bruised my left lung. my arm was yanked out of its socket. all the nerves and stuff like that. >> every nerve is severed and ferguson loses all feeling and movement in his left arm. three and a half months after the accident, he makes a difficult decision. >> i literally asked them to take my arm off. it was cumbersome. it was doing nothing. my doctor said, yeah, there's no use keeping it there. >> ferguson ma...

Jerry can't seem to free himself of the memory of his close encounter. >> i mean, i had nightmares for probably four to six months after that just waking up. wow, put your arm somewhere and he bites your arm off. >> finally, he's at peace with what happened that day. >> i have kind of come full circle. before i was more in the corporate world and now actually for a living i'm a dive instructor. >> a dive instructor? that's right. perhaps the most surprising part of this whole story is jerry loman now runs his own dive company out of thailand. >> i'm surprised that i'm actually a dive instructo...

Up around denver. he hook turned it and hit the ground. he's dead. >> ferguson survives the impact, but he doesn't escape injury. >> i broke eight bones. i bruised my left lung. my arm was yanked out of its socket. all the nerves and stuff like th that. >> every nerve is severed and ferguson loses all feeling and movement in his left arm. three and a half months after the accident, he makes a difficult decision. >> i literally asked them to take my arm off. it was cumbersome. it was doing nothing. my doctor said, yeah, there's no use keeping it there. >> ferguson may have suffered a serious in...

I went up to the bars and splash they hit me with baby oil and hair grease and broke my arm off. i didn't see the person who did it, right? there were too many prisoners out, so i didn't see who it was. i'm not the type that would tattletale on somebody anyway. right? >> whitlow acknowledged what might be his biggest problem in prison. >> most of it, the biggest percentage is how much i talk around the guys. one of the problems, issues i had was talking a lot. excessive talking without -- you know, going on and on a lot of times. >> not only was whitlow a sex offender, he was a sex offender th...