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Upcoming Events | Skydiving Articles | DZ UpdatesSkydive Mossel Bay’s Captain Marvel
In a guide to women with kick ass powers, TheWrap described Captain Marvel as having “superhuman strength, stamina, durability, and agility, and can fly faster than the speed of sound. She can also heal from injuries quickly, has immunity to toxins and poisons, and...
The Highest Tandem Skydive in Africa is only in Mossel Bay
The highest tandem skydive in Africa is only in Mossel Bay. Why settle for lower when you can go HIGHER! Skydive Mossel Bay offers the highest tandem skydive in Africa, from 14,000 feet. That’s 4.3 kms up! The standard tandem skydive in South Africa is between 9,000...
Jazz Republic 4 Way FS Skills Camp at Skydive Mossel Bay
FS 4-way team Jazz Republic and Skydive Mossel Bay teamed up for a fun-filled FS skills journey to discover the rewarding world of FS through a structured skills development programme. Jazz Republic team members, Paul Marcellin (Simba), Claire King, Dirk Venter and...
What Is The Average Skydiving Height? (and how you can go higher!)
Based on a few different factors, skydiving has several altitudes that could be considered ‘standard’ – most of the time this is between ten thousand and fourteen thousand feet. While you could maths these into an average skydiving height, it is more informative to...
South Africa’s Best Dropzone For Experienced Skydivers: Skydive Mossel Bay
Nowadays you can find skydiving operations all over the world, but there are few countries that compete with what South Africa can offer skydivers – whether you are a first-timer, a brand new AFF or static line student, or indeed an experienced skydiver already. Let’s...
What Is A Static Line Parachute Jump?
Learning to become a skydiver requires knowledge and training in several key areas. You need to learn about the equipment you need, but also the various stages of the jump process such as preparing mentally, getting into the plane correctly, exiting at altitude, the...
How Safe Is Skydiving
Skydiving is the original extreme sport, and it is perfectly natural to be nervous about doing it. Evolutionarily speaking, we have only just climbed down from the trees, so jumping out of an aeroplane makes your monkey brain ask a lot of questions. Despite what your...
Calling All Dreamers!
Skydive Mossel Bay is calling for the dreamers - those who have always said, “one day, I’m going to make a skydive”, or more directly have declared, “one day I’m going to become a skydiver.” If you are one of these people who have thought about this, but life has...
The Perfect Skydiving Road Trip From Cape Town
South Africa’s Garden Route is one of the most scenic and beautiful places on earth, and to take a day trip from Cape Town down the coast is unmissable. Heading East out of the city, the journey passes through the lush and varied landscape of the Western Cape, and...