Toronto Star Foreign Affairs Reporter Marina Jimenez interviewed Jill Heinerth about her lie as a cave explorer. The feature spanned three pages in the Sunday Star. Download a PDF here: TorStarInsight
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What's wrong with this valve? If you think it looks a little beat up, you should see the other guy. This metric valve was installed in an Imperial tank by a...
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In June 2016 I was named the first Explorer in Residence for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. One of the major goals of the program will be to find funding...
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Jill Heinerth graces the cover of this month’s Canadian Geographic Magazine. The edition hits newsstands July 4, 2016 and covers Canada’s Greatest Women Explorers. Jill Heinerth is featured as the new Explorer in Residence for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Ask a rebreather diver what drives their rebreather and they will undoubtedly tell you, the oxygen sensors. These annually disposable devices are critical to creating a safe breathing loop and yet when not functioning properly can reduce a $10,000 investment in life support to a useless hulk of unusable equipment. Oxygen sensors are a crucial component, informing the rebreather control systems about the partial pressure of oxygen within the breathing loop. They notify the electronics package when solenoid should fire and send more life giving oxygen into a diver’s breathing loop and alert the computer system when too much oxygen…
It has been a whirlwind week of activity surrounding Jill Heinerth’s appointment as the first Explorer in Residence for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Canadian Geographic Magazine offered this update. Jill appeared on the popular television program on CTV called The Social. The lengthy segment covered everything form Jill’s genesis in diving to plunging deep under Antarctic icebergs. Heinerth was celebrated at a VIP luncheon at Massey College in Toronto, where she was officially installed in her new role.
On June 8, 2016 Jill Heinerth was appointed as the first Explorer in Residence for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Here is an audio link to her acceptance speech which is written below. Acceptance of the RCGS Appointment as the Inaugural Explorer in Residence June 8, 2016 on the occasion of World Oceans Day Delivered at the Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada by Jill Heinerth I hit the geography jackpot. I was born in Cooksville, Ontario in 1965 when the world was opening and anything was possible. Generation X they called us, post-boomers, baby busters, latch-key kids. An independent generation that…