Trapped Inside an Iceberg

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Canadian Jill Heinerth has one of the most dangerous jobs on earth. She’s a cave diver - she explores underwater tunnels and caverns. In 2001, she travels to the Southern Ocean, attempting to become the first person to swim inside an iceberg. Needless to say, Jill gets more than she bargained for… A Noiser production, written by Macalister Bexon. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:24.0	It's morning on February the 17th, 2001, at the bottom of the Southern Ocean.
0:30.0	A place of extreme darkness, quiet and cold.
0:34.0	The glacial water here is a brutal minus 2 degrees Celsius.
0:39.0	Rising up from the seabed is a colossal white mountain.
0:45.0	A giant iceberg, hundreds of feet tall, a glassy frozen monster in the sea of the Antarctic coast.
0:53.7	It may appear solid, impenetrable,
0:56.9	but there are cracks and crevasses scarring its surface,
1:00.8	openings which lead to a labyrinth of caves and passageways within.
1:05.0	Nobody has ever explored inside an iceberg before.
1:10.0	That is, until now.
1:15.0	Swimming through this claustrophobic sub-aquatic world, is 37-year-old Jill Hynath.
1:23.0	With care and expertise, she swerves her way through frozen underwater tunnels,
1:29.0	her spotlight glistening off the icy surfaces.
1:33.0	Alongside her is her husband and long-time diving partner Paul.
1:38.0	Together, they're history makers.
1:47.0	At times, they're navigating passageways so small that their diving gear scrapes along the walls. Little bubbles dance their way out of thin cracks all around them.
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