About Skydive Lake Wanaka

Skydive Lake Wanaka is an innovative, progressive New Zealand company dedicated to delivering a unique tandem skydive experience, with high standards of safety, comfort and personal service.

Our highly qualified and friendly tandem skydive team just love to skydive in one of the most spectacular locations in New Zealand!

All our tandem skydive instructors and freefall camera flyers are highly qualified, internationally rated and have a real passion for skydiving and New Zealand adventure sports. They are all dedicated to ensuring your tandem skydive is quite simply the best in New Zealand.

Skydive Lake Wanaka was started by Dave and Jools Hall in 1995 and has now taken many thousands of satisfied customers for a tandem skydive, with an unparalled safety record. Skydive Lake Wanaka is affiliated to the New Zealand Parachute Industry Association and uses state-of-the-art skydiving systems.

Skydive Lake Wanaka operate from Wanaka airport, with a brand new purpose built hangar and New Zealand built Cresco 750 turbine aircraft, offering great scenic views from altitude over the stunning Mount Aspiring National Park.

 

Your Tandem Skydive Team

 

Dave - Managing Director / Chief Safety Officer / Packing Technician (9,500+ skydives),"Viper"

Dave started Skydive Lake Wanaka with his wife Jools in 1995. He has represented New Zealand at Skydive World Championships in Spain. He is 'Mr Safety' – a bit of a legend!

 

 

Jools - Managing Director / Sales and Marketing
(300+ skydives),"Jester"

Started Skydive Lake Wanaka in 1995 with Dave. The 'energy tornado' and Mum to Max and Maye.

 

 

Uros - Senior Drop Zone Safety Officer (16,000+ skydives)

Impressed and inspired with achievement. Not impressed by Hollywood but LOVES happy endings and loves animals - (once he has achieved world peace and stopped world hunger he will get some work done on his body!) He is usually 6'5" tall, blonde and handsome but not today!

 

 

Andrea - Mission Control,"Maverick"

Unflappable, organized, multi-tasks in her sleep and handles more phone calls than the New York Stock Exchange! Can answer 3 phones at the same time as well as running the drop zone for almost 6 and half years! Smiles all day long!

She "feels the need, the need for speed!."

See Andrea in Stars in Your Eyes Wanaka on You Tube

 

 

Kirsten – Wingman/ Sales and Marketing, "Merlin"

Kirsten is a born and bred Wanaka local – a Southern Lass – she can drive tractors AND skydive vans, muster sheep and herd skydivers, ride horses, answer 4 phones and all with the warmest smile and wickedest sense of humor!

See Kirsten in Stars in Your Eyes Wanaka on You Tube

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Madi - Transportation Manager and Front Line Sales, "Goose"

From London England.  Nearly became a fighter pilot before giving it all up to work at Skydive Lake Wanaka!  Loves snowboarding, chai lattes and randomly jumping out of a plane.

"Great balls of fire"

     
     
 

Danie - Front Line Sales, "Iceman"

London lass who loves snowboarding & a few cheeky wines with the girls! She is stoked to be working here where her bad sense of direction doesn't matter when the only way is straight down!

"You can be my wingman anytime."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alex - Sales/driver/editor "Charlie"

Alex is our ski "dude". He can pull off "Blue Steel" whilst doing a 540 on ski's. His beard is actually makeup & he fully admits to spending time grooming it with a razor free blade every morning. An all round nice guy.

"Mav, you big stud! Take me to bed or loose me forever."

 

 

Grant - Tandem Master (14,000+ skydives)

Dark, mysterious, gorgeous, freefall/caffeine addict. Slightly geeky – he lives with his computer and is super intelligent – our longest serving Tandem Master.

 

 

Eugen 'Eugenius' - Tandem Master / Camera Flyer / Tandem Handicam / Packing Technician / Inspector Gadget (14,000+ skydives)

Our Mr Fix it comes from Hungary and is the fastest vacuum cleaner driver in the South – legends are made from this man!

 

 

Geoff - Tandem Master / Camera Flyer / Tandem Handicam (6,000+ skydives)

Gorgeous, friendly, home grown Kiwi – Life does not get much better than being strapped to this man!

 

 

 

Ingemar - Tandem Master / Camera Flyer / Tandem Handicam (12,000+ skydives)

Ingemar is always right, only been wrong once and that was only because he thought he was wrong! Loves the outdoors and indoors, no weather is too bad. Doesn't like wet slippery roads.

 

 

Olgierd Myrczik aka "Ollie" - Tandem Master / Camera Flyer / Tandem Handicam (5,300+ skydives)

Ollie is from Poland & has been skydiving for 16yrs. Skydiving is his first passion, followed closely by music (specialising in classical & jazz). He's not a fan of big cities, likes things calm & natural.

 

 

Chris - Tandem Master/Camer Flyer/ Tandem Handi-cam. (4,800+skydives)

Kiwi born heart throb, gets more fan mail than Britney Spears. Loves the outdoors, sailing & generally being a clown. Likes pies.

 

 

 

Yuko - Camera Flyer (2000+ skydives)

Yuko speaks Japanese, Swedish, English and Kiwi slang. She loves the NZ sky and is the cutest person you could ever be videoed and have your pics taken by in the sky! She is cute but you wanna be on her good side since she has a really shiny black belt!!!

 

 

Hamish - Pilot (4,000+ Flying hours)"Slider"

"I have the BEST office in the world – 9000+ trips to altitude and I have still not had enough of those views!"

 

 

Peter - Weekend Pilot (5,000+ Flying hours)

Makes great coffee! “I LOVE flying the jump plane for such a professional organisation”. Peter also flys his Tiger Moth bi-plane on scenic flights around Lake Wanaka.

Visit his website: www.classicflights.co.nz

 

 

J.B – Parachute Packer Extraordinaire
12,000+ pack jobs "Wolfman"

Gallant, lucky, NEVER has a bad day – spends a lot of time on his knees!

     
 

Neil - Parachute Packer/editor "Hollywood"

From just north of Manchester, this rookie (dont worry, not too rookie) packer works hard, learns fast, also the fastest tree planter in the west (Wanaka). Would love a Brewski if you're asking!!!!

 

 

 

Max Hall-Trainee Meteorologist (skydives 1)

Max (age 8) is currently studying the art of the "head out of the window" weather check technique and lets us know every day that it's a great day to go skydiving and bike riding. Max did his first tandem skydive with Dad Dave & described it as "the best thing I've ever done in my life!".

 

 

Maye Florence Hall - Entertainment Manager

Maye Florence (age 6) is responsible for adding a smile to the drop zone and being cute. She runs a busy schedule, keeps the boys on their toes and can often be found on her barbie phone.