what makes sylvia earle such an interesting celebrity?
You’ve seen them during Shark Week & on Animal Planet; they are the top shark experts in the world. Here is an opportunity to meet and get to know one personally! In all, 28 of the world’s best-known shark celebrities have put themselves on eBay during Shark Week 2009 to raise funds for the Shark Research Institute’s conservation programs. What you are bidding on is time with a shark expert over lunch or a dinner. This auction is a first of a kind; it is an unprecedented opportunity to meet, “talk shark” face-to-face, one-onone, with a real authority on sharks. How it works: Unless you are prepared to fly or drive to the expert’s home base (in parentheses next to their name), bid on one that is based nearby. The winning bidder pays for the lunch or dinner and may bring as many guests as he or she wishes (exception is Chris Fallows who will be taking his winning bidder out to sea with him). We will introduce the winning bidder to the shark expert and the meeting can take place any time
Dr. Sylvia Earle is an American oceanographer. She was chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1990-1992. She is a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, sometimes called “Her Deepness” or “The Sturgeon General” Early Life and Education Sylvia Alice Earle was born in Gibbstown, New Jersey on August 30, 1935. She was raised on a small farm and from the time she was very small, she loved exploring. She was fascinated by the creatures and plants that lived in the wilderness around her home. Neither of her parents had a college education, but they loved nature and they taught young Sylvia to respect wild creatures and not to be afraid of the unknown. Those who have followed Dr. Earle’s adult career wonder if she is afraid of anything. When Sylvia was 13, the family moved to Dunedin, Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico. Soon, Sylvia was learning all she could about the wildlife of the Gulf and its coast. Her parents could not afford to send her to co
