Bøger af Jill Heinerth

Cave diving has been called the most dangerous participatory sport in the world. It doesn't have to be. With proper training, experience, and guidance, you can be a skilled cave diver and enjoy this challenging and rewarding activity for a lifetime. With decades of technical diving instructor experience, including world record cave dives, and paradigm-changing underwater exploration, Scuba Diving Hall of Fame Inductee and Canadian Explorer-in-Residence Jill Heinerth has created this contemporary cave diving instructional guidebook. Generously illustrated, "The Essentials of Cave Diving - 4th Edition" contains practical, 21st century underwater knowledge, including sidemount techniques and the latest in rebreather technology. Encompassing all levels of cave diving, from entry-level to expert, this manual is an essential tool; appropriate and relevant to all cave training disciplines.

This book is provided in the Russian language: "Chester the Manatee and the Very, Very, Terribly Bad Itch" follows the life of a gentle manatee that faces struggles from a very annoying itch. He reaches out to a young girl who helps him discover the cause of his problems. The little girl helps Chester by teaching people about keeping water clean. Chester the Manatee supports children who feel different and embrace their special characteristics. The book celebrates unique kids as remarkable people who help teach others about important issues."

Chester the Manatee and the Very, Very, Terribly Bad Itch follows the life of a gentle manatee that faces struggles from a very annoying itch. He reaches out to a young girl who helps him discover the cause of his problems. The little girl helps Chester by teaching people about keeping water clean. Chester the Manatee supports children who feel different, embrace their special characteristics. The book celebrates unique kids as remarkable people who help teach others about important issues.

Cave diving has been called the "most dangerous participatory sport" in the world. It doesn't have to be. With proper training, experience, and guidance, you can be a skilled cave diver, and enjoy this challenging and rewarding activity, for a lifetime. With decades of technical diving experience, including world record cave dives, and paradigm changing underwater exploration, Woman Divers Hall of Fame member Jill Heinerth, has created this full-color contemporary guidebook. Generously illustrated, "The Essentials of Cave Diving" contains practical, 21st century underwater knowledge, including sidemount techniques and the latest rebreather technology. Encompassing all levels of cave diving, from entry-level to expert, this manual is an essential tool; appropriate and relevant to all cave training disciplines.

A comprehensive guide to digital underwater photography techniques, equipment, editing and artistry. Written by acclaimed underwater photographer and film maker, Jill Heinerth, the manual includes tips, secrets and remarkable stories from her expeditions around the world. Scuba divers of all levels of experience and background will enjoy this easy to understand, full-color handbook. Techniques are demonstrated using Jill's rich library of award-winning images.

Side mount diving is the fastest growing sector of technical SCUBA diving. Developed by trail blazing cave divers, the versatile side mount configuration offers new possibilities for open water, cave and wreck diving enthusiasts. With years of side mount diving experience, two of the sport's most acclaimed explorers, Brian Kakuk and Jill Heinerth, have teamed up to share their expertise with you in this generously illustrated and practical manual. Featuring advice from side mount pioneers Wes Skiles, Lamar Hires, Jakub Rehacek and Steve Bogaerts, "Side Mount Profiles" is an essential tool, filled with contemporary knowledge to help you enjoy the underwater world as a competent and safe side mount diver.

"A picture book ... about Jill Heinerth's experiences as a female diver, exploring life under the water"--

From one of the worlds most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earths final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planetMore people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep space than we do about the depths of our oceans. From one of the top cave divers working todayand one of the very few women in her fieldInto the Planetblends science, adventure, and memoir to bring readers face-to-face with the terror and beauty of earths remaining unknowns and the extremes of human capability.Jill Heinerththe first person in history to dive deep into an Antarctic iceberg and leader of a team that discovered the ancient watery remains of Mayan civilizationshas descended farther into the inner depths of our planet than any other woman. She takes us into the harrowing split-second decisions that determine whether a diver makes it back to safety, the prejudices that prevent women from pursuing careers underwater, and her endeavor to recover a fallen friends body from the confines of a cave. But theres beauty beyond the danger of diving, and while Heinerth swims beneath our feet in the lifeblood of our planet, she works with biologists discovering new species, physicists tracking climate change, and hydrogeologists examining our finite freshwater reserves.Written with hair-raising intensity,Into the Planetis the first book to deliver an intimate account of cave diving, transporting readers deep into inner space, where fear must be reconciled and a missions success balances between knowing ones limits and pushing the envelope of human endurance.