Athlete Archana Sardana joins us to talk about her incredible accomplishments and athletic adventures. She is India’s first and only woman BASE (Building, Antenna, Span and Earth) jumper, an accomplished skydiver, mountaineer and scuba diver instructor.
Archana has done 335 skydives, 45 BASE jumps across the globe and is a master-scuba diver trainer from India. She did India proud by unfurling the tri-colour at a depth of 30 meters in the ocean, off the Andamans’ Neil Island, and set a new record in the process. Apart from registering her name in the Limca Book of Records 2011, she has also performed a ‘free fall’ skydive from a height of 13,500 feet, and BASE jumps from a 400 ft. high bridge in Utah and from the KL Towers in Malaysia. Additionally, Archana is the only Indian who is a trained instructor with the Disabled Divers International and runs her own Scuba Diving Academy in Delhi.
Archana is an adrenaline junkie, who dreams of doing the Everest skydive some day and championing the cause of equal opportunities for women. She aims at making Indian’s braver by exposing them to the underwater world through scuba diving. Her two boys Pranav and Ayush have their own national records and are scuba divers, ice hockey players and unicyclists.
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