Police, fisheries and the CareFlight helicopter rushed to Casuarina Beach yesterday amid fears a parachutist had landed several hundred metres offshore.
Duty Superintendent Rob Farmer says the skydiver was forced to use his reserve parachute over Casuarina Beach after getting into trouble during his skydive about 2pm.
He says the 33-year-old Darwin man deployed the reserve chute quite close to the ground but he was found safe and well shortly afterwards.
"He'd confirmed he had had trouble with his primary chute, but he'd cut it loose, deployed his reserve chute and landed safely at the beach," Duty Superintendent Farmer said.
"The chute which was seen landing in the water was the discarded primary chute."