Skydiving was November 9, 2003 This page takes a while to load.

My tandem instructor, John Kemnitz, and me.

Me moving to door. Guy to right is videographer for Maciej's jump. Maciej exits after me.

In door about to exit. My videographer (taking pictures and video) is hanging outside plane to get this shot.

Too late to chicken out now... We jumped at 14,000 feet.

Instructor is on top, me on bottom. We are in freefall at 138mph according to the tracking computer.

Still in free fall. Out total freefall time was about 55 seconds, during which we fell about 8500 feet.

Shoot just starting to open, which is why videographer dropped under us. Purple thing is shoot starting to open.

This is what down looks like after opening.

If you right click this link and save it to your hard drive (Michael_Dive_Short.wmv), you can download a short video clip of Rachel going out the door and dropping away from the plane, then of my dive. This clip is 17MB, so if you download it to your drive, then play it with Microsoft Movie Player, it usually works better than trying to play it directly. The videographer was the one who put a music soundtrack on it, so don't complain to me about that!