Cave diving with Brian Kakuk in no mount restriction.
More pics and videos from Brian Kakuk, Marc Laukien and Jill Heinerth, coming soon to Rebreather Pro. -- Robert
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February 2010
Digital Underwater Photography: Eye Candy
Jill has been in Bahamas with Brian Kakuk and Marc Laukien gathering video and stills.
Endorsement from a photo pro!
From Solomon Baksh , Publisher, Deep Blue Publications Limited 
"I purchased your book "Digital Underwater Photography: Jill Heinerth's Guide to Digital Underwater Photography" last week and once I started reading it I simply could not put it down. In fact I completed reading the entire book in 2 days. Even though I am a professional underwater photographer and have written several dive guides for a UK publisher I am of the opinion that no professional underwater photographer knows everything. I certainly learned a lot from your book. What's volume 2 about?"
Wow. Thanks Solomon!
Survival Doesn't Have to be Pretty
If your accelerator got stuck, would you know what to do?
Last July, the rear tire tread came off my van at 65 miles per hour on the Florida turnpike. Although the urge was there, I know instinctively, that using the brakes would send us into an irrecoverable roll. Many years of driving on snowy Canadian roads, gave me the manual practice that still left its imprint after 15 years in America. We skidded down the highway sideways while I continued to try to steer us out of the skid and ease to the shoulder and out of traffic. By the time we impacted the soft shoulder, we were less than half speed. Although we rolled, I think it might have ended much worse.
Anyone that has dived rebreathers for a long time will share that they have had bad days when either the equipment failed or they made stupid mistakes. If your skills are well practiced and manual responses are instinctual, then your chances of survival will be far greater. Practice doesn’t always make perfect, but survival doesn’t have to be pretty… just effective. Jill Heinerth
The news these days is filled with horror stories of people on cell phones with a 911 operator, panicking as they speed down the highway, out of control. Unfortunately, some of these cases ended in fiery crashes when neither the driver, the passengers nor the operator thought to switch the car into neutral.
Last July, the rear tire tread came off my van at 65 miles per hour on the Florida turnpike. Although the urge was there, I know instinctively, that using the brakes would send us into an irrecoverable roll. Many years of driving on snowy Canadian roads, gave me the manual practice that still left its imprint after 15 years in America. We skidded down the highway sideways while I continued to try to steer us out of the skid and ease to the shoulder and out of traffic. By the time we impacted the soft shoulder, we were less than half speed. Although we rolled, I think it might have ended much worse.
Anyone that has dived rebreathers for a long time will share that they have had bad days when either the equipment failed or they made stupid mistakes. If your skills are well practiced and manual responses are instinctual, then your chances of survival will be far greater. Practice doesn’t always make perfect, but survival doesn’t have to be pretty… just effective. Jill Heinerth
Jill Heinerth Digital Underwater Photography Book
NOVA/PBS Extreme Cave Diving expanded previews and websites are up!
PBS has created some terrific web sites with video and heaps of behind-the-scenes information about the upcoming NOVA special Extreme Cave Diving, to air on February 9th at 8pm Eastern time. Check it out here.
Diving Ojamo Mine in Finland
Ojamo Mine is a vast, flooded mine with an entry through a lake. The facilities are excellent, including a safe dock entry, warming hut, dressing trailer and fire pit. Exploration has been completed down to the 138 meter level, although deeper levels exist. Ice is controlled in the dock area by running a small compressor to keep an entry pool open. A safety diver is always dressed and prepared to respond to overdue divers and several safety bottles are cached in critical locations in the passages. The dive itself feels like a natural cave, but he artifacts of mining are scattered through the cave, making it feel like a wreck dive too. Rebreathers and scooters are used by many divers here in order to reach distant passages like Hell's Gate, where I had the fortunate opportunity to dive with Janne Halonen, Janne Suhonen and Antti Apunen.
Top: A beautiful example of the photography of Janne Suhonen and his team at Ojamo Mine.
Below: Janne Halonen preps his Inspiration Vision rebreather for diving in Ojamo Mine near Helsinki, Finland.
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