Skydive ‘made sense’ for nurse Nikki

But for one Littlehampton nurse, it just felt like another trip to the office, albeit a very high one.

District nurse Nikki Brogan, 44, who is based at the Littlehampton Health Centre, in Fitzalan Road, said friends and family thought she was “barking mad” when she decided to do a charity skydive above Kent, for St Barnabas House Hospice, in Worthing.

However, the mother-of-two explained: “It was the only logical choice. I hate the sea and I didn’t want to do a run.

“But I love flying, so it just made sense, really.”

Nikki, of Marlborough Place, raised more than £400 from her sponsored tandem skydive last month, money which she will present to the hospice later this week.

Recalling her experience of plummeting through the air, Nikki said: “It was surreal, exhilarating, amazing, and absolutely out-of-this-world.

“My two daughters thought I was barking mad when I told them I would be jumping out of a plane, two-and-a-half miles up.

“But it is definitely something I would do again.”

Nikki, who has previously worked as a community nurse at the Zachary Merton Hospital, now hopes to walk a section of the Great Wall of China for charity or, failing that, take the plunge during another fund-raising skydive.

A video of her fall is on YouTube, under ‘Nikki Brogan tandem skydive’.