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TAUPO, New Zealand, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A skydiving instructor in New Zealand, whose parachute became entangled during a fall, survived a 13,000-foot fall to Earth.
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."
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NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 13 (UPI) --
A funeral is being planned for songstress Whitney Houston in her hometown of Newark, N.J., later this week, sources close to her family told NBC New York.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake shook Costa Rica Monday and could be felt as far away as Panama, officials said.
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NEWPORT, R.I., Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Lottery officials said Monday the winning $336.4 million Powerball ticket was sold at a Rhode Island convenience store, but the winner had yet to come forward.
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PORTLAND, Maine, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
So-called tar sands oil from Canada is "much, much worse" for the environment than conventional crude oil, a Maine environmental advocate said.
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