First dive under sea ice [Arctic | Women]
Last updated: August 29, 2017 at 2:00 am
1994 – Christine Dennison (USA), Resolute Bay (Canada).
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Jeffrey Gallant is the Editor-in-Chief and Records Keeper of the Diving Almanac. He is also a contributing editor of DIVER Magazine, and the scientific director of the Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group (GEERG). Jeffrey started diving in 1982.