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Survivors or family of those killed are being interviewed by clinical health experts and researchers.
“Our aim is to understand how people who have been through that are coping,” says Caroline Bell, one of the researchers working on the study.
“And really trying to understand that from the perspective of their wellbeing, what’s helped them cope and what hasn’t helped, and how they are most importantly and if they do need more support to try and enable that to be linked to really quickly.”
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Steve Gregor and Brent Findlay are trying to break a New Zealand record that’s stood for almost 22 years - the most number of simultaneous skydives done in a single day - which currently stands at 100.
Gregor planned his first attempt at the end of 2018.
“Honestly it was like a full-time job,” he says.
It took him a year to get sponsorship money, consents to close the airport and ground crew and pilots, along with hours of training and preparation.
“Then we showed up on the day and looked at the cloud and rain all day long and cause there s so many pieces to the puzzle we couldn t just try again the following weekend we had to can it.”