Can you explain that a bit better? I thought time dilation would shorten the "apparent" time for the person accelerating into the black hole. This site (http://jilawww.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/schw.html) has an apparent time of 16 seconds which is not exactly the life of the universe.

I remember those two fondly from my pre-teen (and in fact pre-pre-teen) days. I also read E E "Doc" Smith's Family d'Alembert series (D'oh - just read on Wikipedia that Stephen Goldin wrote most of them - childhood shattered!) but they were probably a bit trashy.