A skydiving instructor in New Zealand, whose parachute became entangled during a fall, survived a 13,000-foot fall to Earth.

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British-born Michael Holmes, 25, told reporters from his hospital bed when his second parachute didn't open "I realized it was all over."

"You don't have much time to say goodbye," he said. "I just thought: "S***, I'm going to die!"

Holmes captured his plunge on his helmet-mounted camera, which kept recording after he had crashed to Earth into a thick blackberry bush. He suffered a punctured lung and broken ankle in the incident.

His ordeal was witnessed by John Siddles and his 18-year-old son Adam, who were watching while trying to decide if they wanted to try parachuting for themselves.

"One of the skydivers was coming down and going around and around ... he looked like he was all tangled up or something," Siddles said.

"We decided it's not for us."