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Jill Heinerth
Jill Heinerth (born 1965) is a Canadian cave diver, underwater explorer, writer, photographer and film-maker. She has made TV series for PBS, National Geographic Channel and the BBC, consulted on movies for directors including James Cameron, and written several books and produced documentaries, including We Are Water and Ben's Vortex, about the disappearance of Ben McDaniel.
As a child, Heinerth was inspired by Jacques Cousteau's television series. In 5th grade, she gave a Science Fair project about mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle. She gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications Design at York University, and ran a small graphic design agency in Toronto while teaching scuba in Lake Huron's port of Tobermory in the evenings. In 2023 Heinerth was awarded an honorary PhD from Victoria University in the University of Toronto.
In 1991, Heinerth quit her office job and moved to the Cayman Islands to dive full-time, honing skills in underwater photography. She then moved to Florida to work on cave diving, where she was mentored by documentary filmmaker Wes Skiles. She collaborated with his Karst Productions, based in High Springs, Florida.
In 1998, Heinerth was part of the team that made the first 3D map of an underwater cave. Heinerth became the first person to dive the iceberg caves of Antarctica, penetrating further into an underwater cave system than any woman ever[dead link] In 2001, she was part of a team that explored ice caves of icebergs where she and her then husband Paul Heinerth "discovered wondrous life and magical vistas" and experienced the calving of an iceberg, documented in the film Ice Island.
In 2015, Heinerth participated in exploring the numerous anchialine caves of Christmas Island.
In 2016, Heinerth led an expedition that explored and surveyed the flooded Bell Island Mines in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Heinerth is a Fellow of The Explorers Club and the inaugural Explorer-in-Residence of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.[citation needed]
She consults on training programmes for diving agencies, publishes photojournalism in a range of magazines and speaks around the world.
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Jill Heinerth
Jill Heinerth (born 1965) is a Canadian cave diver, underwater explorer, writer, photographer and film-maker. She has made TV series for PBS, National Geographic Channel and the BBC, consulted on movies for directors including James Cameron, and written several books and produced documentaries, including We Are Water and Ben's Vortex, about the disappearance of Ben McDaniel.
As a child, Heinerth was inspired by Jacques Cousteau's television series. In 5th grade, she gave a Science Fair project about mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle. She gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications Design at York University, and ran a small graphic design agency in Toronto while teaching scuba in Lake Huron's port of Tobermory in the evenings. In 2023 Heinerth was awarded an honorary PhD from Victoria University in the University of Toronto.
In 1991, Heinerth quit her office job and moved to the Cayman Islands to dive full-time, honing skills in underwater photography. She then moved to Florida to work on cave diving, where she was mentored by documentary filmmaker Wes Skiles. She collaborated with his Karst Productions, based in High Springs, Florida.
In 1998, Heinerth was part of the team that made the first 3D map of an underwater cave. Heinerth became the first person to dive the iceberg caves of Antarctica, penetrating further into an underwater cave system than any woman ever[dead link] In 2001, she was part of a team that explored ice caves of icebergs where she and her then husband Paul Heinerth "discovered wondrous life and magical vistas" and experienced the calving of an iceberg, documented in the film Ice Island.
In 2015, Heinerth participated in exploring the numerous anchialine caves of Christmas Island.
In 2016, Heinerth led an expedition that explored and surveyed the flooded Bell Island Mines in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Heinerth is a Fellow of The Explorers Club and the inaugural Explorer-in-Residence of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.[citation needed]
She consults on training programmes for diving agencies, publishes photojournalism in a range of magazines and speaks around the world.
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