Mike Corey (Host)

Finally, Bob decides to try something else.

The basket is just barely big enough for two.

Maybe if he climbs in first, he'll have more leverage and can haul Morley in that way.

Bob clambers into the basket, then reaches down and grabs Morley under his armpits.

It works.

Little by little, Bob is able to shimmy Morley's arms and torso into the half-submerged basket.

Morley is about halfway in when Bob feels a sudden jerk.

The water falls away beneath him, and the basket rises into the sky.

Bob realizes that the rescue crew has begun hoisting them back up to the helicopter, but Morley is still dangling halfway out of the basket, and now he's hanging on for dear life.

Flight mechanic Fred Kalt reels in the rescue basket as fast as the hoist mechanism will allow and calls out over his headset.

But there is a massive wave approaching fast.

Kalt wants to get the basket clear before it hits.

The top of the wave clips the basket, sending it spinning under the belly of the helicopter and out of Kalt's line of sight.

Flight mechanic Lee Honnold grabs the cable and pushes it outward so it won't fray against the edge of the door.

When the basket swings back into view again, Kalt half expects it to be empty.

That wave probably knocked the survivor right out of it.

But amazingly, he sees a lone figure crouched inside the basket.

Kalt reels him in the rest of the way.

He hears Captain Lefevre's voice over his headset.

Great work, Fred.