About

Adventure Driven Vacations (ADV) is the first Specialised Operation (SPO) for tandem skydiving in Croatia, certified by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Licensed under strict EASA SPO standards for commercial skydiving, ADV guarantees the highest level of professional safety and operational excellence.

We’ll guide you into the exciting world of skydiving with passion, safety, and unforgettable scenery.

Skydive Croatia from 4,000 meters above the crystal-clear Adriatic Sea, the monumental Velebit mountain, and the islands surrounding our Zadar drop zone. This unique location sits between two stunning national parks – Paklenica and Kornati. Or choose to jump over the majestic forests of the Lika region, near Otocac and the famous Plitvice Lakes National Park.

Proud members of:

United States Parachute Association (USPA)
National Association of Croatian travel agencies (UHPA)

Our mission is to put a big smile upon your face!

ADV is motivated by a simple idea of creating a perfect Adventure Driven Vacation for you. We want you to make beautiful memories in active contact with nature, in the air, sea and land.

Your safety is our priority!

Once in a while everyone imagines what it would be like to live out some kind of adventure; something totally new and different from their everyday routine. Some people are inspired by movies, family, friends, or some memorable magazine photo. Others are inspired by the pure wish of exploring a variety of new thrills which make our life so exciting.

Every day should be an adventure and with this thought in mind, our story begins…

Experience the thrill of skydiving above the sea during one of the world’s most beautiful sunsets in Zadar and land right on the beach. You’ll be in the hands of highly experienced skydiving professionals and pilots, using meticulously maintained gear and our own turbine aircraft built specifically for skydiving.

It’s our passion and our greatest reward to make every jump a memory for life. Our mission is simple: to put a big smile on your face and safely share the freedom, adrenaline, and beauty of this incredible sport.

At ADV, we don’t just offer best tandem skydiving experience in Croatia we craft life-changing experiences.

Come for the thrill, leave transformed!

Now would be the perfect time to introduce our team, right?

Grgo

ADV founder and owner
Tandem skydiving instructor
Pilot
Motorcycle guide

Although it wasn’t that easy for him, gravity was something that actually drove him forward in life and didn’t hold him back. Grgo is ”The Head” of the ADV team in more than one way. He is actually the founder and owner of ADV and once you see him in person the other reason will become crystal clear; there is no way you could ”slap on a smile” of that size on a normal sized head. He has tried it all: windsurfing, cliff diving, athletics, skydiving, ADV motorcycling, climbing, sailing…

Not only tried, he excelled in all of these, but Grgo being Grgo rarely brags about his outstanding achievements. If there were a world championship in modesty, he would be world champion but yet again he wouldn’t tell anyone… And now, after a 12 year successful IT career he is ready for a new ADVenture.

Special techniques:

Very long blues guitar solos
Downwind parachute swoop manoeuvre
Indestructible optimism

Good to know facts:

He has had a skydiving licence since 2001. and the following ratings: skydiving instructor and tandem pilot license, USPA coach, SL/I, TI and USPA S&TA – Safety and Training Advisor. Not only that but he has a Commercial Pilot License (CPL) and Single Engine Turbine (SET) class rating.

When he is not in the air he is shredding the continent on his motorbike. He has accumulated more than 70 000 km in the past 3 years and has been everywhere from the Alps all the way to the Nordkapp. He is the proud owner of the ”Iron Butt” certificate for endurance riding when he covered 2500 km in less than 36 hours on his way to the northern most point of Europe.

Some facts you might be interested in:

10+ years of Sales & Business Management experience in leading international IT companies (IBM, Ericsson).
Has a proven track record of business project management, software solutions and innovation projects

What else?

If we told you that he is a passionate windsurfer, has a skippers ”C” licence, AIDA F2 free diving licence, loves snowboarding, mountain trekking and cycling you would say that we’re just sucking up to ”The Head” so we’ll just stop here. Oh yeah, did we mention that he plays lead guitar in drop zones resident blues band? No? Well he does. Honestly.

Over and out.

Karlo

Skydiving Instructor
Skydiving Camera Flyer
Driver

To sum it up in a one word at the beginning of our story about him, he is the LEGEND! Karlo was one of the two teams in Croatia that started RW (Relative Work) skydiving scene in Croatia. This is the skydiving discipline you see the most on TV when skydivers grip to each other and form set of shapes or formations. He is one of the first skydiving camera flyers and skydiving instructor, being in a sport for almost 30 years, you definitely have something to learn from him.

Unfortunately for you, Karlo is also our skydiving van driver. Don’t worry, he always overtakes from the correct side :)! When you are in the hurry he will get you on your destination safe and by the book. We are still trying to find out where did he learned to drive like this but currently we are little bit suspicious about Playstation games. If we find out we will let you know.

Special techniques:

Electric rhythm guitar
Sleeping a lot
Being cool

Did we mention he likes music a lot and takes his guitar with him everywhere he goes. If you will want, you can try and make him play something for you. Please take some ear plugs because he likes to play loud music and blues of course.

Marko

Skydiving Camera Flyer
Sea Kayaking Guide
Free Climbing Guide
USPA Tandem Skydiving Instructor

He can and love to do it all. Marko aka Dex was with ADV from the beginning and somehow this is not strange, because he is what ADV is, Passion for Adventure. From the first moment when he started to skydive he wanted to do skydiving camera flying. He is now one of the best skydiving camera flyers in Croatia. All those beautiful photos that you see on our web and social media channels, were most probably taken by him. When he is not in the airplane he guides sea kayaking tours and free climbing tours.

Special techniques:

Sunset skydiving photography
Skydive from the airplane wheels

Did we mention also that Dex is a scuba diver and likes to drive motorcycles a lot, also to run marathons just for fun. So to conclude his long story made very short here come and meet him, he will definitely make you smile in the air, on the sea or mountains.

Inas

Pilot
Artist

Inas is our trusted pilot. We do believe that she is the best skydiving pilot around but you should come and check this out on your own, if you dare. Somehow it seams that our airplane likes her and she said many times that she likes our airplane too.

When she started to work with us, “skydiving bug” got her too and now she wants to do skydiving course and to be honest this is a small problem for us because we don’t want our pilot to jump with us :). We want our pilot to land the airplane! Currently she is planning to buy a motorcycle just to have some fun when going home from the airport.

Special techniques:

Smooth and flawless landings
Bush flying skills

Good to know facts:

In her free time she likes to paint a lot and she is good at it. Maybe if you kindly ask her she can show you some of here work. Just for fun she also started photography and if we didn’t mention before flying for us she was flying airplanes for aerial photography operations. She is an artist, everything she does she works hard to do it perfect.