I think I said, “you can knock me over with a feather!” when I was called to the stage in Australia to accept the Oztek Media Excellence Award. It recognizes significant contributions to technical and exploration diving and especially highlights the work of the We Are Water Project. I showed the full film in Sydney and had a wonderful response from the crowd. A fantastic and memorable weekend!
We Are Water ~ Jill Heinerth From under your golf course to inside the world’s largest iceberg, Jill Heinerth is perhaps more qualified than most to comment on the state of the world’s drinking water — she spends her life diving in it. Read the story by Cherie Adams Dodd.
Plongée Magazine sat down with Jill Heinerth at a recent trade show to learn more about her exploration diving around the world and her We Are Water Project. Read the article here.
OUTSIDE ONLINE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2012 My Perfect Adventure: Jill Heinerth The world’s top female underwater explorer, whose ideal day would be spent below sea level, tells us what it’s like to skirt death for a living, why she reveres Ernest Shackleton, and that Libya’s on her bucket list By: AVITAL ANDREWS READ MORE HERE.
My New Dead Friends Ron. Mark. Horst. Carl. Tim. Wes. Agnes. Xavier. These are my newest dead friends. My wife, Jill, worked with, trained, or was a colleague to them. She is not a cop, fire fighter, or soldier. She is a cave diver. So were they. Recently, I produced a documentary about a scuba diver who went missing in a Florida cave. I narrated the film, and said “Cave diving is sometimes referred to as the world’s most dangerous sport.” This simple statement created a shit storm of controversy among the cave diving community, and I was challenged and vilified on the Internet diving forums…