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Jill Heinerth grew up watching the Apollo space missions on TV, dreaming of becoming an astronaut. Life, though, took her in the opposite direction.

Whereas astronauts rocket into space, Jill plunges into the ocean depths as one of the world's top cave divers. 1 She spent 21 hours underwater to get the world record for distance travelled underground, and became the first woman to cave dive in the Antarctic. It was that expedition to the Antarctic in 2000 that really made Jill's name. She was heading to B-15, the largest iceberg on the planet (about half the size of Jamaica) to explore the caves in it despite not knowing if there actually were any! 2

During the dive any disturbance, even a few air bubbles, could cause the cave to collapse, so the threat of disaster was always there. At one point, Jill felt a movement in the ice that felt like an earthquake. She later tound out that a piece of ice had crashed into the cave's entrance, and would have killed her had she been near. 3 Just two hours later, the iceberg shattered Completely. These kinds of incidents would put most divers off for life, but Jill freely embraces her fear 4

As she puts it, "If you don't chase fear, you'll be running away from it your whole life."

Although she hasn't made it into space yet, her work may affect future space missions. "I was experimenting with a 3D mapping device that cost almost £470 million. 5

It seems the girl who dreamt of the stars and wound up in the depths may have found the best of both worlds.​

By Сауле Жаксыбаева

​Read the text and choose from the sentences A-F the one which best fits each gap (1-5). There is one extra sentence.

A On her final dive, Jill and her partner became trapped by strong currents, only managing to pull themselves out using small handholds in the ice wall. B One of the reasons that Jill is brave enough to face such dangerous expeditions is her confidence in technology.

C She has had her stunning photos published worldwide and won awards for her documentaries, but she's also a record breaker.

D One day NASA hopes to send this to the underwater caves of Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter," Jill says.

E To her, it's an important part of life.

F If that wasn't a big enough leap of faith, the iceberg had just broken away from the Ross Ice Shelf and was moving at the time.