On the 6th March at 10:45am local time I jumped out of a helicopter from 2,800 feet. I opened my parachute after 1.5 seconds. We opened over the ocean and flew back to land on the beach where over 1000 Vietnamese locals looked on with interest. I jumped with Wendy Smith who happens to be the number one rated female skydiver in the world as well as flying the camera for me that day.
It was a day of firsts.
- First time I had been to Vietnam
- First time I had jumped out of a helicopter (or even being on one!)
- First time I had jumped from 2,800 feet (I usually jump from around 13,000 feet!)
- First time I had jumped onto a beach
- First time anyone in history has skydived on six continents in six days!
- First time many people had heard of 3 million orphans in South Africa!
Everything went well! We didn’t miss a flight. We didn’t have any really bad weather.
We made every pick up and every connection. It was a logistical nightmare organizing such a trip that took us to 6 continents, 9 countries, and 14 flights adding up to 92 hours in flying time in just 7 days!
We had an amazing experience and met some amazing people, really amazing.
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Thanks everybody for your support!
God bless
Martin Downs
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http://www.project0.org.za/content/view/15/24/
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