This sport is safer than driving an automobile (when measured in deaths per 100,000 users per year), and certainly a lot more fun...
To check out all the facts, and some fiction, look at this collection of skydiving stuff.
Here's a picture of me coming in for a sunset landing:
The post-dive-euphoria grin:

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