Who is Dr. Amanda Reynolds from Ice Hunt and what is their importance?

Amanda Reynolds lost her hearing after a car accident when she was thirteen. The loss, however, didn't slow her down, although her speech is slightly slurred and when she is excited, her enunciation is not as good. Amanda was raised a Navy brat, and she designed the experimental "Deep Eye' ice-surveying system, which is a penetrating sonar or X-ray for ice.