Outrageous Adventures: Breathtaking Ways to Push the Envelope

Shawn Foust never intended to get hooked on skydiving. It all started with an unusual present from his wife for his 32nd birthday: the chance to plunge from a plane flying at 15,000 feet. On a clear day last November, the Seaside couple took a leap of faith together and they both signed up for training at Adventure Center Skydiving in Hollister. Foust, a federal agent with the Department of Defense, and his wife, an Air Force captain at Monterey's Naval Post­graduate School, had never embarked on anything like this, even during their military training.