Skydiving, hang-gliding or scuba-diving?

[BlAzInIt4:20]

I'd choose hang-gliding. I've scuba-dived before. But I'm far too chicken to skydive.

I have recurring dreams where I hang-glide and/or pilot an ultra-light aircraft. I'm a frustrated pilot of nearly all flying machines. One of these days, I plan to become a real one and take flying lessons. My husband is getting his instrumentation rating this year and one of his best friends owns an aviation company. My turn is coming next.

my uncle flys for continental air line. he loves his job...and makes excellent money... i went scuba in the red sea when i was in egypt, i watched jaws the night before biggest mistake ever.. but it was still good...

[birdgirl73]

I've parasailed, too. It was awesome.

Skydiving, at least until your chute opens, isn't anything like flying, Ghosty, as you'll find out when you talk to skydivers. It's like falling. Fast. After the chute opens, they say it's like controlled fall-floating. I once did a series of articles for my newspaper on skydivers and diving when I was a reporter. I did a low training jump. But I couldn't go all the way up high and do the real thing. Had heard too much in-depth detail about the sensations and risks. And I'd read two background pieces about two divers in different places whose chutes didn't open. That was plenty enough to dissuade Miss Safety First.

[ghosty]

it still sounds like such a rush, i might do it as a present to myself one of these years, maybe when i turn 28, that'll be my golden b-day

[birdgirl73]

They all said it was an amazing rush. Hope you have a blast!

My personal feeling, knowing myself, was that it would rush every fluid in every cavity of my body that possessed an external opening immediately out and either into the air or into my dive suit. That's how overwhelming surges of adrenaline affect some people.

[ghosty]

i believe most skydiving places make you jump with an instructor your first time, my dad did it once when i was little with an instructor strapped to his back... i think with an instructor telling me when to pull the chute i wouldnt have to worry and would be able to enjoy the experience.