Join the Lancaster Scuba Club for a book signing event with Jill Heinerth on September 5 at 6 pm Info@lancasterscuba.com 717-397-2822 201 Greenfield Rd, Lancaster, PA 17601
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Unexplored caves and high tech toys are featured on this episode of the Into The Planet podcast. All music used on our podcast are our original compositions. Read about: Bob...
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I have spent a lifetime traveling the globe on expeditions and filming projects. This is installment five of my top 100 travel tips to make your journey more relaxed and earth-friendly. 1. Belt – I always wear a lightweight webbed belt. Beyond holding up my pants, I can use it for yoga stretches. 2. Wool – The benefits of wearing merino wool are unsurpassed. This magic fabric is incapable of holding human body fat that causes odor. You can wear merino for a month of sweating, and the clothing will not smell. It is great for warm and cold weather….
I have left Saskatchewan as my last stop on my Underwater Canada tour. It is not known as a diving destination, but every place has a story. Locked in the...
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Taking you to places where no person has ever gone before, and blending memoir, adventure, and science, Into the Planet – My Life as a Cave Diver, is a riveting account of one of the most dangerous yet exhilarating pursuits in the world. As one of the most celebrated cave divers in the world, Jill Heinerth has seen the planet in a way almost no one has. In a workday, she might swim below your home, through conduits in volcanoes or cracks in the world’s largest iceberg. She’s an explorer, a scientist’s eyes and hands underwater—discovering new species and examining our…
It is flat as a pancake where the TransCanada and the Yellowhead Highway connect. Mustard color canola fields meet Wedgewood sky punctuated by grain silos and wooden poles that run...
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Publisher’s Weekly Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth. Ecco, $29.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-269154-5 Underwater explorer and documentary filmmaker Heinerth vividly depicts the extraordinary aquatic vistas she’s discovered in this immersive memoir. Blending sport, science, education, and adventure, Heinerth balances technical information on the challenges of cave diving with her personal story of grit and determination. Hoping to “face challenges with fierce will and optimism,” Heinerth left a high-paying job in Toronto for the Cayman Islands to work as a diving instructor. She earned her certification as a cave diver and, in 1995, joined an expedition to Huautla, Mexico, to explore one of…
From the opening pages, we are immersed in a beautiful and incredibly dangerous world of subterranean water choked passageways that seem to twist deeply into an endless dark labyrinth. As light envelopes crevice’s long cloaked in darkness, it illuminates a world of mystery and adventure that mirrors this incredible explorer’s life. Casting aside barriers and maneuvering through restrictions both above and below the water, Jill Heinerth’ s lifelong passion to explore the most hidden recesses of our world has driven her to boldly go where – quite literally – no one had gone before. “Into the Planet” takes us along…