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This Skydiving Center
began to work on November 1993 as Cuba was selected to host the VII World Cup of
Parachuting Champions, in which participated parachutists from different countries such as
Chile, Peru, United States, France, Germany, Russia, Australia, Brazil, Slovenia, and the
Cuban Team.
On January 1994 the Center set into the tourism market of Varadero the Tandem Jump. On
this very same year the V Latin-American Championship took place in our drop zone,
parachutists from the whole Latinamerica took part on this event. The Cuban National Team
won the first place on the Accuracy Landing contest. On 1994 our Skydiving Center keeps on
growing its market with the Tandem jumps and solo jumps for foreigner and national
skydivers.
On 1995 the VIII World Cup Of Parachuting Champions is organized with the participation of
the best classical parachutist from Europe and America. At the end of this competition a
Boogie is held for first time in Cuba, in cooperation with Exotic Sky Adventures Co. run
by Alexis Perry. A lot of fun jumps were made from 4000 meters on MI-17 choppers.
Skydivers from Europe, Canada, and Latinamerica jumped together in our beautiful
landscape. On 1996 another Boogie was organized but with more participants this time, 163
skydivers from all over the world came to jump our fleet of MI-17. We jumped in Cayo Largo
del Sur from twelve Antonov-2s flying in formation, taking 144 skydivers in order to jump
over the intense blue of its waters. More than 3600 jumps were made which meant a big
success for our Skydiving Center and also for the Exotic Sky Adventures Co.
A group of Canadian and Belgium skydivers decided to organize together with us some jumps
from the legend aircraft Antonov-2 and future projects are settled for 1998. On October
1998 was organized a Miniboogie with a good foreigner participation.
During 1998 the tandem jumps grew significantly and we got 1003 tandem passengers.
The Center has high-qualified instructors for this activity. All of them with a lot of
experience on this extreme sport, and they have been members of the National Team.
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