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Henry Kaiser, well-known musician and underwater videographer, will present a program about diving in Antarctica at this Monday’s (4 October) Alacosta Divers meeting at the Orinda Public Library, starting at 7.30. Henry has travelled to Antarctica every year since 2001, where he’s been diving as a research diver under fast ice; that is, ice held fast in place and is typically 20 to 30 feet deep. He has over 300 dives under fast ice, and has fascinating footage of gin-clear waters and the unearthly marine life that inhabits it, the sea floor, and the bottom of the ice shelf.

Henry’s Antarctic video footage that inspired Herzog to film “Encounters at the End of the World,” a documentary about the people who live and work in Antarctica. Henry provided underwater footage for that movie, and has also provided footage for Herzog’s “The Wild Blue Yonder” and BBC productions.