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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Originally Featured in The New Yorker By Brent Crane 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, and an orange kayaking helmet affixed with a waterproof …
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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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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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Interview with Bill Edwards from WTKS / IHeart Radio on my fossil dives
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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Bill Eberlein is passionate about his job, but as he says, it’s not really working when you greatly enjoy what you’re doing! He is a professional scuba diver who seeks out prehistoric megalodon shark teeth in the coastal waters off Georgia’s coastline. Not your usual 8 to 5 job. …
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Thanks to Patty Turner for featuring us n the TV show The Bridge in March 2021
ERIE, Pa. — Bill Eberlein, a 1983 graduate of Erie Tech Memorial High School, learned to dive in the murky waters of Lake Erie, honing his skills with the Erie County Sheriff’s Office Scuba Team. Maybe that’s why the 54-year-old Erie native is so comfortable most mornings when …
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Originally published in Penn State Behrend Magazine. One of the most fascinating things about a human life is how it often unfolds in a series of serendipitous events that lead to unexpected twists and turns. When Bill Eberlein ´89 arrived at Penn State Behrend in the late 1980s, he planned …
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Bill’s Story For 19 years, Bill Eberlein spends his days 40-60 feet deep in Savannah’s rivers and the Intracoastal Waterway, blindly digging through mud in search of what’s left of the elusive Megalodons—their fossilized Megalodon Teeth. Eberlein was raised in Erie, Penn. Growing up, his parents always took him …
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Several years ago Shelton Polka from Savannah College of Art and Design made a short film about my diving adventures. Congrats to Shelton for winning an award for our “Megateeth” film at the Skidaway Film Festival in Savannah!
We were interviewed on WTOC TV Today. Click the link below to see the video. http://www.wtoc.com/story/31797398/local-diver-finds-giant-mastodon-jaw/ SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) – A local diver happened upon something pretty amazing in the rivers of Coastal Georgia on Thursday – a Mastodon jaw! Bill Eberlein tells us he was doing his normal dive …
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