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Into The Planet Book

Aug 01
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Ultimate Travel Tips – Clothing Choices

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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….

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Jul 29
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Just Add Water Dive Center Book Event August 27, 2019

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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…

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Jul 27
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Publisher’s Weekly Offers Excellent Review of Into The Planet

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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…

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Jul 23
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Richie Kohler Endorses Into The Planet Book

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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…

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Jul 21
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Syracuse Book Signing Event for Into The Planet at Deep Stop Scuba

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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…

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Jul 17
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August 20 New York Book Launch to be Hosted by Sea Gypsies Club

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On August 20, 2019, I will launch my book Into The Planet – My Life as a Cave Diver at an event hosted by the New York Sea Gypsies Dive Club. The event is open to the public and free of charge. If you want to pre-order a book and have it delivered to you by Strand Books, please click this link. 6 PM: Jill Arrives for social and signing 7:00 PM: Club Meeting 7:45 PM: Presentation by Jill, Introduced by Deep Sea Detective Richie Kohler Address: The Press Box, 932 2nd Ave (between 49th & 50th streets), New York…

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Jul 15
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An Interview with Jill Heinerth

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A magazine from New Zealand reached out to ask some personal questions about what makes me tick. I offered these answers to give readers a look into my world. Q: Jill, tell me a bit about yourself, where did you grow up, school, family life etc? I grew up near Toronto, Canada in a small town called Cooksville. That village of apple orchards and farms quickly grew into the town, then city of Mississauga. My Dad worked really hard to allow my Mom to stay home and raise the kids. As the youngest of three, I had a lot of…

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Jul 11
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Bob Ballard Endorses Into The Planet Book

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It is not often that you get to meet, let alone work with your mentors and heroes. In recent years, I met Discoverer of the Titanic, Dr. Bob Ballard, a couple of times, but only recently had the opportunity to work closely with him on the National Geographic project Walking with the Ancients. On a vessel in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, we deployed and documented several revolutionary 3D imaging devices in underwater caves with a goal to survey and map their extents and prove the technology worthy of deployment in deeper, unexplored caves nearby. For the few that…

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Jul 10
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Remembering Wes Skiles

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Wes Skiles was a huge influence in my career and personal life. Sadly he died prematurely in a diving accident in July 2010. Offering a eulogy at his memorial service was one of the toughest things I have ever had to do. Hundreds of people gathered by the water of Ginnie Springs celebrating his life, but we all mourned the man we had lost. As I choked back tears, I offered these words to our community: Wes was one of the great catalysts in our diving family. I have no doubt that many people have had their most exciting, most…

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