- Who
- Paul Arthur Berkman
- What
- 16 meters metre(s)
- Where
- Antarctica (White Island, McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica)
- When
The deepest dive through an ice hole is 16 metres, and was achieved by Paul Arthur Berkman (USA), in White Island, McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica, on 15 August 1981.
Professor Berkman's passion for global responsibility and science diplomacy was ignited during a research project with Scripps Institution of Oceanography to study the diving physiology of an isolated population of Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) at White Island, Antarctica, where he made the Deepest dive through an ice hole.
Among other notable achievements, Professor Berkman went on to convene the Antarctic Treaty Summit in 2009 at the Smithsonian Institution on the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, which was signed in Washington, DC “with the interests of science and the progress of all mankind.”
