We picked this beautiful iceberg that we called "Patience Camp," and we pulled our Zodiac boat into this little bay. This was the coldest dive either of them had ever been on. I wasn't nervous for myself as much as I was for Wes and for Paul, because this was their first ice dive. The first dive, I was actually a little nervous. And I had the sense that I was looking at something that would never be the same again. The moment I saw this white pinnacle of ice for the first time, standing like a mountain on the ocean, my heart was racing.
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We figured that, if this great crack had broken this piece off the ice sheet, then there had to be other cracks. When we pitched our project to National Geographic, they said, "Wow, there's caves inside of icebergs?" And we said, "Hell yeah, there are caves inside of icebergs!" But the truth was, we didn't know. So we decided that we were going to go to Antarctica and be the first people to ever cave dive inside an iceberg. We had been watching satellite photos of this great crack slowly opening up in the Ross Ice Shelf, and as we were getting close to making our pitch, the largest moving object on our planet broke away from Antarctica. My partner and I wanted to pitch a project to go to Antarctica. I look into a cave and I want to know what's around the next corner. People look into caves, and they see nothing but darkness, terror, fear, claustrophobia. She’s done work for PBS, National Geographic and the BBC, and she’s one of the most accomplished cave divers on the planet.īack in 2001, accompanied by expert diver Paul Heinerth and underwater cinematographer Wes Skiles, Jill Heinerth captained an expedition to the B-15 Iceberg in Antarctica.
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Jill Heinerth is a professional cave diving explorer and underwater filmmaker. This story was re-broadcast on Septemas part of The Best Of Only A Game.
Facebook Email Jill Heinerth and her team decided they would become the first-ever to cave dive inside an iceberg after B-15, an iceberg 'the size of Jamaica,' broke away from Antarctica.
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