Adventure Upgrade: Going Deep Into Risk, Fear & Awe – Jill Heinerth & Bob Ballard : 955

<p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE</strong>™<strong>...</strong></p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong>…two of the most adventurous people on the planet share what they’ve uncovered, faced and learned through exploration of the planet’s deepest waters. From discovering the Titanic to cave diving in places untouched by any other human, Bob Ballard and Jill Heinerth took risks, dove into fear, and came up for air with tremendous new knowledge. Combined, they’ve spent over nine decades searching the seas and documenting their findings.&nbsp;</p><p>Canadian&nbsp;<a href="https://www.intotheplanet.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Jill Heinerth</strong></a>&nbsp;explores the underwater world as one of the greatest cave divers on the planet. She’s considered this generation’s Jacques Cousteau. She’s completed more than 7,500 dives in her career so far and dived deeper into caves than any woman in history. She became the first person to dive the ice caves of&nbsp;Antarctica, going further into an underwater cave system than any woman ever. She’s gone into places in the world where no one had gone before.</p><p>Considered a legend in the diving community, she’s spent more than 30 years in submerged caves around the world partnering with National Geographic, NOAA, and various educational institutions and television networks worldwide. She’s also a writer and award-winning photographer and filmmaker who takes a keen interest in the health of the Earth’s oceans.</p><p><strong>Learn more about Jill’s lifetime of underwater cave diving in her memoir, “</strong><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/into-the-planet-jill-heinerth?variant=32205394214946" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver</strong></a><strong>.” “We are capable of so much more than we could possibly imagine," she says.</strong></p><p><a href="https://nautiluslive.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bob Ballard</a>&nbsp;explores the vast depths of the oc