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A Prehistoric Killer, Buried in Muck. New Yorker Magazine
Originally Featured in The New Yorker By Brent Crane Eberlein with 50 lb Mastodon Jaw. Photo by Sean Halfert. On a sunny January morning outside Richmond Hill, Georgia, Bill Eberlein, a fifty-two-year-old former I.T. specialist, went diving in a local creek. He wore a wetsuit, a drysuit, a dive hood, …
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Smithsonian Channel’s “Top Ten Deadliest Beasts” with Bill
The Smithsonian Channel sent a crew from Blink Productions to film one of my dives for their special Top Ten Deadliest Beasts. There was a lot more to the show which can be seen here: https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/top-ten-deadliest-beasts/0/3462226 or on the Smithsonian Channel. This is just the part they videoed of my …
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6.92 in. almost a 7 inch Megalodon Tooth found 04/23/10
Not for Sale. From a post in 2010 with updated photos. I did not fully appreciate how rare this tooth was back then. I had only been diving about 8 years for these. Almost 15 years later I still have never found a tooth close to this. I’m so glad …
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Every week is ‘Shark Week’ by Chloe Davis – Oceanographic Magazine 2023
Off the coast near Savannah, Georgia, Eberlein who has dived for almost 40 years, secures his scuba gear and leans off the side of his boat, bobbing in the muddy low country water. On the count of three, he jumps off the boat into the river, making sure to connect …
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Searching for Megalodon teeth in the rivers near Savannah
See the video here: https://www.savannahnow.com/videos/lifestyle/2023/07/26/searching-megalodon-teeth-murky-rivers-near-savannah/12291471002/
Shark Week: Shark Tooth Hunters Highlight Niche of Local Ocean-Based Economy
Shark week: Shark tooth hunters highlight niche of local ocean-based economy Marisa Mecke Savannah Morning News On a clear blue day, Bill Eberlein is 60 feet underwater digging through the muck of the ocean floor. Eberlein is a longtime diver and SCUBA instructor, a native Pennsylvanian who came to Georgia …
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Divernet Magazine Article 2003
Meg Diver: Bill’s Big Tooth adventures Otodus megalodon, aka “Big Tooth”, hasn’t been around for more than 3.5 million years, whatever Discovery Channel might have us believe. The giant shark was probably killed off by then-cooling Planet Earth, falling sea-levels and competition from massive whales. But the …
Savannah fossil hunter makes incredible find, Do Savannah Magazine
Bill Eberlein made the discovery of a lifetime in the mud of a local riverbed when he recovered a fossilized mastodon jaw with teeth still attached. A professional diver, Eberlein will include the find July 1 and 2 in a display of fossilized shark teeth at First Friday and Saturday …
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Megateeth on WJCL TV’s Southern Routes with Frank Sulkowski 09/07/22
See The Video here: https://www.wjcl.com/article/diving-for-megalodon-teeth-with-bill-eberlein/41100216 .. … LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. —It’s an overcast…steamy September morning along the Georgia coast. As the rain moves in….Bill Eberlein is moving out….and headed down. Forty or sixty feet down to be exact. Eberlein is a diver and shark tooth hunter. He’s really good …
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The Bridge TV Show Savannah GA with Patty Turner July 2022
Click Links (right) to view the videos Link to Part 1 | Link to Part 2 SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — With all the recent shark bites in the news lately, and Shark Week coming up on the Discovery Channel, there’s lots of talk about sharks. But, did you know …
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Savannah Morning News Interview July 2022
Photos and Story by Josephine Johnson For Savannah Morning News On an early, mid-July morning at a private dock near Midway, Georgia, diver and shark tooth hunter, Bill Eberlein, readies his scuba gear for a couple hours of feeling his way along the Atlantic seafloor. Above, the sky shifts a …
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Radio Interview with Bill Edwards from WTKS / IHeart Radio on my fossil dives
Interview with Bill Edwards from WTKS / IHeart Radio on my fossil dives https://www.spreaker.com/user/9809246/bill-eberlein-owner-megateeth-fossils-hu
Connect Savannah Interview, December 2021
A hobby turned business with BITE By Marley Gibson, | Photos by Diane Dodd Published originally in The Savannah Morning News Bill Eberlein discovers ancient treasures in Savannah rivers Since arriving in Savannah in 1999 from Erie, PA, to work for Gulfstream, Bill Eberlein has “strapped on a …
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