STUFF MEETS
THE CANADIAN CAVE DIVER, EXPLORER AND FILMMAKER ON UNKNOWN UNDERWATER WORLDS, TAKING RISKS AND BEING A SIXTIES KID
Jill Heinerth
Diving Into the Darkness: it’s about diving, but into the darkness
[ Interview Rachael Sharpe ]
More people have been to the Moon than some of the places I’ve dived.
There’s a lot of times when I’m exploring a cave that nobody’s ever been to, and probably nobody ever will return there. So I recognise that the data, the images, the stories I bring out from these remote places are really important and I need to share them with the world.
I know I’m doing something that’s very risky.
In all frankness I’ve lost more than a hundred friends to cave and technical diving accidents. So that is at the front of my mind, and I don’t really get an adrenaline rush like some people might expect. I’m interested in the new, in trying to capture unique places, so I’m really in that creative mindset. I am an artist – that’s my original training – so I’m really locked into that artistic sensibility.