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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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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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 …
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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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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