16 Jul 2025

After BASEjump tragedy, new doco follows Kiwi widow's journey

From Nine To Noon, 11:20 am on 16 July 2025
Image from the film and movie poster

Photo: Gabriel Garton

When Kiwi Shayni Couch met her future husband Micah, it was a match of adventurous souls.

Raised in Tutukaka in Northland, Shanyi had been a dive instructor before moving to Dubai to work on superyachts.

Micah was from the US, and working as a videographer for a skydive company Shayni went on to jump with.

They married, but just two weeks after finding out they were to be parents, Micah died in a BASEjump in Norway.

Shayni's story of returning to the site of Micah's last jump has been told in a new documentary screening as part of the DocEdge festival. 

It's called Shayni in the Sky, and documents - not only Shayni's story with their young son Lincoln - but Micah's adventurous life with footage of his jumps around the world.

Shayni joins Kathryn - along with the film's director Gabriel Garton.