Damon Tucker and his friend Mike Zagorski are about to go on the ride of their lives.
They’re taking tandem skydiving to a new level, or rather a new height.
"The Skydive Hawaii people said this is the first time they’ve ever took a tandem people up to this elevation, 21,000 feet. Normally the tandem jumps in Hawaii are done between 12,000-13,000 feet, so they brought us almost twice as high as they normally do," said Damon Tucker, a Big Island resident.
21,000 feet equals about 4 miles.
The temperature up here — 27 degrees below zero!
"I was so cold I thought I was going to freeze I was literally frozen," said Tucker.
And before he knew it, it was time.
"And next thing you knew I was jumping out and doing somersaults outside the back of the airplane. It was crazy I mean it was crazy," said Tucker. "What’s going through your mind is you hope that chute is going to open. You’re dropping so fast and realize you’re in a really dangerous predicament."
"We dropped out about a minute and a half of free fall, then they pulled the chute and then we floated about five minutes down," said Tucker. "Between being nervous and between being scared I was making sure I was having a good time and that was the really important thing.
And before he knew it, they were back on the ground. Mission accomplished.
"I did it I survived, I made it. I was happy to be on the ground," said Tucker.
And we asked Damon if he’d do it again, he said "definitely, most definitely!"
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