Jill Heinerth is on the X-PRIZE team and shares her insights about the organization’s work to help improve people’s lives, encourage creative thinking, and save the planet. All this and Hallmark Christmas movies!!! Send us your X-Prize ideas at IntoThePlanet.com
Jill Heinerth tells the remarkable story of African-American sailor Lanier Phillips, one of the few survivors of the World War-Two wreck of the USS Truxtun at Chambers Cover, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. Jill dived on the wrecks of the Truxtun and USS Pollux as part of the recent Great Island Expedition
Jill and young marine scientist Kayla Martin talk underwater photography, video, technical scuba diving and basically how young people will save the planet. Kayla’s website : http://loveofdiving.com
Jill visits East Carolina University and the marine archeologists studying Blackbeard’s ship Queen Anne’s Revenge. This leads to revelations of the vessel’s previous incarnation as the slave ship Le Concorde and how some would rather skip that part of the unpleasant history. All this plus traveling with vaccine passports, banned books and Robert doesn’t even know what day it is anymore. Episode 45.
Jill tells tales of flying boats while filming a PBS documentary series. How to lose your camera drone, and Robert gives up on everything in -32C freezing weather. And a geography lesson about Canada’s “other” Mississippi river. Below is a link to “Water’s Journey, The River Returns” the film Jill refers to in the podcast.
Jill and Robert’s annual predictions podcast. We discuss what we think will happen in the scuba diving and outdoor adventure industries for 2022. We also talk a bit about climate, UFOs, Art Bell and Lizard People!
After a long hiatus, we are travelling to dive and shoot underwater videos again! JIll shares travel tips and tricks she’s learned from a long career flying around the world with lots of photo, video, and scuba diving gear.
Jill and Robert discuss cold weather scuba diving tips, and what to wear under your dry suit. Landslides and floods in Western Canada remind us that there is more to Climate Change than rising sea levels and melting glaciers. A look at the Covid passport situation.
Jill receives gear support from Fourth Element and Santi Diving from time to time. Over the years, she has also received equipment from other great suit manufacturers including Weezle, Ursuit, Waterproof and Bare. The generosity of manufacturers helps support her active diving career.
Links:
Fourth Element – https://fourthelement.com
Santi Diving – https://santidiving.com
Sealskinz – https://www.sealskinz.com
SmartWool (good source of durable merino products) – https://smartwool.comhttps://smartwool.com
Jill is interviewed by legendary talk radio host Art Bell of Coast to Coast AM fame. From his radio show Midnight in the Desert in November, 2015.
Jill and Robert combine the Into The Planet and Real Sobriety Podcasts into one special episode discussing the COVID-19 Pandemic, quarantines, Lock Downs and what the world may look like when it is finally all clear to come back outside.
