A skydiving instructor in New Zealand, whose parachute failed to open during a fall at 13,000 feet came back from the mouth of death when he crashed back to Earth and into a thick blackberry bush instead of falling to the ground.

Speaking from his hospital bed, British-born Michael Holmes, 25, said, "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!"

According to a Herald Sun report, Holmes captured his seemingly last moments on his helmet-mounted camera, which kept recording even after he crashed.

Holmes only suffered a punctured lung and broken ankle in the incident.