A picture of crew members who lived for adventure began to emerge Saturday as family and friends remembered the 11 victims who perished aboard an ill-fated Oahu Parachute Center skydiving flight that crashed Friday before twilight.

Brian Jones and his fiancee Shelley Hillberry remembered three of their friends and smiled through tears as they placed a six-pack of Coors at a growing impromptu Dillingham Airfield memorial.

Jones said he roomed with victim Mike Martin for two years after meeting the skydiver while catching a wave at Haleiwa’s Ali‘i Beach. The two became fast friends and it was through Martin’s friendship that Jones also met two of the other skydivers who died, Casey Williamson and Larry Lemaster.

“They were all the most giving, caring people that you would ever hope to meet,” Jones said.

While Jones knew Williamson and Lemaster, he had a special bond with Martin, who he said lived for surfing, kite-boarding and skydiving.

“I’m forever grateful for Mike in my life. I just can’t believe that he’s gone,” Jones said. “He taught me to live fearlessly. ‘Don’t be afraid’ — that’s what Mike taught me — ‘Just follow your dreams.’ He always told me that he wanted to go out doing what he loved. But it doesn’t make it any better. It sounds poetic, but it just sucks that he’s gone.”

Jones said Martin’s passion for life was contagious. Once, Martin even got Jones to try skydiving.

“It wasn’t for me,” Jones said. “He did, however, teach me to paint.”

On Saturday Jones brought a painting of the sun and surf that he and Martin created together to Dillingham Airfield. He said he plans to have all of their friends sign it so he can give it to Martin’s family in Florida.

Martin’s Facebook page features a photo of himself dangling from parachute rigging with the sun setting in the distance and bouncing beams of light off his sunglasses and rigging.

Martin’s last post — dated a week ago — featured a muscular figure in a yellow suit, parachute on his back, standing on some sort of flying wing.

His Facebook profile says he’s from Palm Bay, Fla., and is self-employed in Hawaii.

Lemaster’s Facebook page shows him in multiple pictures inside airplanes, with people strapped to his chest for tandem skydives and wearing various skydiving suits.

The Army veteran’s page is full of condolences, praise for his skydiving mentorship and links to news coverage of Friday’s crash.

Natacha Mendenhall told the Associated Press that her cousin Casey Williamson, who worked at the Oahu Parachute Center, was on board the plane. She said her family has not been officially notified of his death. But they provided Honolulu police with Williamson’s name and date of birth, and the police confirmed he was on the flight, she said.

The 29-year-old Yukon, Okla., native started skydiving about 2-1/2 years ago. He moved to Hawaii 18 months ago to focus on skydiving full time. He was an adventurer, Mendenhall said, who lived in Vail, Colo., to snowboard and Moab, Utah, to skydive.

He worked as a videographer who filmed customers as they fell through the air. He was trying to earn more jumping hours and learn the trade, she said.

Williamson was his mother Carla Ajaga’s only child, Mendenhall said.

“We’re all very upset,” said Mendenhall, speaking from her home in Fort Worth, Texas. “She cannot really talk right now. What she wants everyone to know is how full of life her son was, how loving he was.”

The family has created a GoFundMe account to raise money for his funeral expenses.

A fourth man — who has yet to be positively identified — lists himself as a skydiving instructor at Oahu Parachute Center. He also had an Oklahoma connection because he studied mechanical engineering at Oklahoma State University, as well as mechanical engineering at Tulsa Community College.

The Facebook page lists his current address as Haleiwa and current occupation as a skydiving instructor at Oahu Parachute Center, along with previous skydiving jobs including videographer, coach, tandem instructor and sport rig packer.

His latest Facebook post, on Friday, showed a video of himself scuba diving at a Lanai dive spot called Cathedrals.

He called the experience “soul changing” on his Facebook page.