蜜芽传媒

An Australian man has survived spending hours struggling to keep his nose above water after his excavator rolled into a waterhole.

Daniel Miller, 45, had been riding the machine at his remote property 300km (180 miles) north of Sydney.

When the edge of the dam gave way, the farmer was pinned down by a bar on the three-tonne excavator.

Mr Miller explained to Nick Robinson the extraordinary story of how he survived.

(Image: Daniel Miller in waterhole. Credit: 蜜芽传媒/9NEWS.COM.AU)