At 10 years old, Dr. David Ebert proclaimed to his parents that he would one day travel the
world, get paid to do it and study sharks. Mission: accomplished. Now known as “Lost Shark Guy”, he’s visited more than 30 countries to study sharks that aren’t known or are often overlooked, and along the way has discovered and published over 40 new species of sharks and their relatives - skates, rays and ghost sharks. But his go-to spot for finding new creatures is often not the ocean itself but rather fish markets in foreign countries. What he expected to see in these markets was a potentially long list of lost sharks (check)! But what he didn’t expect, and what has been the most enriching part of it all, is the enduring relationships he’s built with fishermen around the world.