The 50-year-old diver, Jill Heinerth also doubles as an underwater photographer and film-maker. She has spent
decades exploring some of the world’s most dangerous waters. "Shipwrecks, dangerous caves and exploding icebergs are all in a day’s work for Jill Heinerth." writes reporter for The Royal Gazette, Jessie Moniz Hardy.Jill regularly is asked to share her skills with aspiring scientists, cavers, and divers. Two weeks ago she taught rebreathing techniques to scientists at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) and lectured about some of her experiences at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. She has written many books on diving techniques and has become a pioneer in rebreather diving, a method still not used by the majority of divers because of the level of training needed.
Her most dangerous dive was a cave in an Antarctic iceberg 15 years ago. The Connecticut-sized iceberg was one of the largest on record and broke off the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000. No one had ever dived inside an iceberg like this before Ms Heinerth came along.
“The biggest obstacle to the dive was Mother Nature herself which sent extreme currents ripping through the iceberg at unexpected moments,” she said. “During that project we had one dive where a doorway caved and sealed after we went through." In fact, the entire iceberg chunk exploded just a few minutes after the team was safely back on the ship.
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