British tourist survives 165ft fall after bungee accident in Thailand

Mr Baveja, a Cambridge graduate from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, spent a month in a Bangkok hospital in Thailand after suffering a ruptured spleen, torn liver, collapsed lungs and serious bruising.

But doctors were "staggered" he survived at all after the harness around his feet worked free during the jump, meaning he continued accelerating until he hit the surface of the lagoon at the Jungle Bungy centre in Kathu, on Phuket island.

Mr Baveja was able to take the impact of the landing on his chest, meaning he avoided serious head damage. Doctors compared his injuries to those of a car crash victim.

He told the Daily Mail: "All the doctors were staggered that I lived. I'm very lucky. If I had landed head first I would be brain damaged, or dead.