"Ice Island" free download

Karst Productions, the company of Wes Skiles is currently offering the movie Ice Island as a free mp4-file download through a site called iDocumentary, whose only purpose seems to be to distribute free copies of that movie, which still sells for about 20 USD on Amazon or other online shops.

In short, it is a well-made documentary about Antarctic icebergs and Antarctic ice diving, and for rebreather enthusiasts, there are some Cis-Lunar systems in use and on display.

The rb diver in charge of the operation was Jill Heinerth who also talks about this expedition on a podcast episode of Bottom Time Radio (I mentioned her also in a previous post).

Obviously, there are some requirements before you can get your free (and of course somewhat compressed) copy of the documentary, i.e. you have to give up your name, email and age class as well as country of residence. Big deal...

After downloading the file and watching it in Quicktime, I must say that it is some cool and definitely hair-raising material, especially the iceberg penetration dives, which, by the way, do not take place anywhere near the famous mega-iceberg (some have called it a "teraberg") B15 but on some rather small and, one could add in a slightly blasé voice, ORDINARY iceberg... ;-)

But still, overall it is worth to watch it (but I am as happy that I did not shell out for the original DVD...)