SKYDIVE GRAN CANARIA was founded by Francisco (Paco) Romero, who has been in this sport for over 30 years on the Canary Islands. He was the one that opened the first sporting club in the Canaries, thus making the parachuting sport possible on the islands since 1977. He has logged over 16.000 jumps, of which 7.500 are tandem jumps. Static line instructor since 1980, AFF(Accelerater Free Fall and Tandem instructor since 1986. He is one of the most skillful and experienced tandem masters in Europe and worldwide. Paco Romero is also a experienced scuba-diver instructor, windsurfer and rally driver, still active on the Canary Islands.
SKYDIVE GRAN CANARIA has a very well known image in Europe and through the main tour operators and travel agents. In fact, our club works together with Neckermann, Thomas Cook, Tui and several other tour operators. We are also giving our services to Anfi del Mar, the best hotels in Gran Canaria, and to all the tourist resorts on our island. In the last year Skydive Gran Canaria was chosen to participate in several TV programs for Gran Canaria, by two English TV stations and two german tv programs(ZDF and VOX).
In our Club we use only the state of the art Tandem Sport Rigs, the famous SIGMA TANDEM which are valued in over 10.000 euros each. At this moment this is the best and safest equipment available worldwide! We also have several well maintained rental sport rigs for our visiting skydivers. Our permanent target is the safety and the high quality standards of our jumps. That also include the high skill level of our freefall videographers. The still photo and the video recording equipment is fully digital and of the highest quality. Our gear is permanently overhauled and well maintained. All the important components are changed every 300 jumps or every 6 months.
Skydive Gran Canaria offers insurance to our tandem guests up to 1.500.000 euros, made with a leading german insurance company (offering worldwide coverage). Also our tandem instructors have the Spanish Aerial Federation insurance which covers not only the tandem instructor but also the tandem student or tandem guest.
Our club operates a beautiful CESSNA 206, the best and most flexible plane for skydiving. It carries up to five skydivers and a pilot or two tandem pairs and a cameraman. The jumping altitudes range from 2500 meters to 3500 meters. From those altitudes we can reach freefall times between 25 and 50 seconds, opening the main parachute at 1500 meters.
We never accept in our staff tandem masters with less than 500 tandem jumps and 1000 jumps in total, thus increasing our safety records permanently. Our staff varies with seasons, but normally we have minimum 2 tandem instructors, 2 cameramen, 2 support/ground crew, several safety and marketing persons, one general secretary and one packer/driver.
One of our other main goals is the service to our visitors and the friendship that our guests deserve. We have a minivan, 9 seats and air conditioned, making the transportation of our skydivers from the drop zone to the club very comfortable. This service is free of charge. As a very important tradition, we have almost every night a "video show" in a very nice pub for our visitors. In this place we give the new students (tandem students) the certificate of the jump and play the videos of the day and a very nice demo video of our performances in freefall ;-)
Welcome to SKYDIVE GRAN CANARIA, a real skydiving club on a unreal location!
