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George who continues to cut where he can. >> you've got to cut everything you can. >> fishbach and the boat's captain, alberto, haul the excess net aboard, holding tight, and repositioning the boat with a paddle whenever the whale shifts in the water. >> we were just grabbing and pulling and cutting and in the context of our cutting, things were getting freed and loose. >> they managed to free one of the whale's pectoral fins, which can be seen momentarily jutting out of the water. no longer completely immobile, but still attached to the net on the boat, the whale begins to swim. >> we're bein...

So that's what i did. >> just as holmes feared, the chutes get tangled. he picks up speed and spins faster, hurtling toward the ground at more than 50 miles an hour. >> i remember thinking in my head, this is it. this is how i'm going to die. i was like oh, you are kidding me. this is the way i'm going to go. >> [ bleep ]. >> in the seconds before landing, holmes remembers the camera on his helmet and uses it to memorialize what he thinks are his last moments alive. >> quite a lot of emotion at that last bit because i thought i was going to die. >> holmes crashes through a thicket of thorny bl...

Slowly his descent. if he pulls the reserve parachute and it gets caught up in the mangled main parachute, it could not only not open, but also interfere with the drag he has and actually speed up his descent. >> is he going to make it better? now it's -- slow it all down and crisis averted and it could reduce his daying. definitely, definitely would hurt. >> holmes takes a calculated risk waiting until he is below 1,000 feet to pull the reserve. >> below 1,000 feet i'm dead anyway. i was, like, here we go. i'll grab the reserve. nothing to lose now. >> i'm going to die, i'm going die trying. ...

If he pulls the reserve parachute and it gets caught in the mangled main chute, it will not only fail to open but it could interfere with the little bit of drag he has and actually speed up his descent. >> it's either going to make it better -- it's either going to have the magic, slow it all down, crisis averted or i pull the reserve and it reduces the drag and then definitely, definitely dead. >> holmes takes a calculated risk are, waiting until he is below 1,000 feet to pull the reserve. >> below 1,000 feet, i'm dead any way. i was like, here we go. i grabbed the reserve and i was like well...

Boat with a paddle whenever the whale shifts in the water. >> we were just grabbing and pulling and cutting. and in the context of our cutting, things were getting freed and loose. >> they managed to free one of the whale's pectoral fins, which can be seen momentarily jutting out of the water. no longer completely immobile, but still attached to the net on the boat, the whale begins to swim. >> we're being taken for a ride by a whale. >> whenever the whale surfaces, the group continues to cut. by now, there's a heap of netting aboard the boat. >> just make sure none of us get tangled. >> yeah....