Dr. Sylvia Earle

(Dive Travel Business News - July 31, 2010) -- The world's top shark experts are allowing themselves to be auctioned on eBay during Shark Week 2010 to raise funds for the Shark Research Institute's conservation programs. Up for auction are dinners (or lunches) with the world's foremost shark experts. It is a unique opportunity to "talk shark" face- to-face, one-on-one, with an authority on sharks.
 
Shark experts and celebrities being auctioned include: Dr. Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Explorer-in- Residence and unquestionably the most eloquent spokesperson for ocean conservation; Dr. Eugenie Clark, founder & director of Mote Marine Labs; Donald Schultz, host of Animal Planet's Wild Recon, Dr. Leonard Compagno, the world's top shark expert; legendary filmmakers Tom Campbell, Jeff Kurr, Marty Snyderman and Jonathan Bird; underwater photographers Amos Nachoum and Matt Potenski, marine painter and author Richard Ellis, artists David Dunleavy and Rogest; and Sherman Lagoon's Jim Toomey and Shaaark's Phil Watson.
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(Dive Travel Business News - April 22, 2010) -- At Beneath the Sea this past March, we heard it straight from Her Deepness, when legendary oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle was conducting a seminar with renowned marine artist Wyland entitled, "Ten Years to Save Our Oceans."

Asked what is the one thing we can do to help the oceans in time, Dr. Earle's reply was:
"Don't eat tuna." read more »

(DiveTravelBusinessNews.com - Nov 21,2009) -- DisneyNature is following up on the record-breaking success of its Earth movie (released on Earth Day 2009) with Oceans to be released on Earth Day - April 22, 2010.

French Directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud take viewers on a mystical journey through the planet's five oceans, exploring its playful nature and harsh realities  through the eyes of the weird and wonderful creatures who live there. 

"These filmmakers have given us the pleasure of looking over their shoulders - to get in a school of fish, to be a dolphin, to be a whale - and swim along with them," says Dr. Sylvia Earle, Explorer in Resident at the National Geographic Society.

Featuring spectacular never-before-seen imagery captured by the latest underwater technologies, the movie trailer demonstrates Oceans' unprecedented look beneath the sea. read more »