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Lunch or Dinner with Jeffrey Gallant, Greenland shark researcher, in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada

Jeffrey Gallant studies distribution of the Greenland shark: social and environmental impact of sport diving activities in the presence of sharks, and shark behaviour.

He is Managing Director of the Shark Research Institute in Canada (SRI Canada), Director of GEERG (Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group, and Executive-at-Large of the Canadian Association for Underwater Science (CAUS).

Jeffrey started diving with the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets in 1982 at the age of 14. He has led several research and training expeditions around the world. Among other accomplishments, Jeffrey was trained as an aquanaut in Romania in 1995. He is the former Chief Diver of the Quebec Aquarium, and he spent a few days diving aboard Cousteau's windship Alcyone in 1999.

An award-winning underwater photographer and videographer with Aqualog Underwater Productions, Jeffrey has contributed to numerousl dive publications, books, as well as television and film documentaries on sharks and diving, including Discovery Channel, History Channel, CBC, Radio-Canada, TV5, TVA, TQS, LCN and Télé-Québec.

He is the author of the internationally-acclaimed Diving Almanac and Book of Records  and he has been a columnist of Vancouver-based DIVER Magazine since 1997. He was made an Honorary Member of the Diables des mers (Sea Devils) Dive Club in 2007. Jeffrey lives in Drummondville, Quebec (105 km from Montreal), where he teaches at the local CEGEP (university prep).

www.geerg.ca       www.sharks.org

Item Special Note

Being auctioned is dinner or lunch with one the world’s foremost shark experts or celebrities. It is a unique opportunity to “talk shark” face-to-face, one-on-one, with a real authority on sharks. 

How it works:

1. Bid on a celebrity, shark scientist or conservationist that lives or works in your area, unless you are willing to drive or fly to meet them in their area.

2. The winning bidder pays for the lunch or dinner and may bring as many guests as he or she wishes.

3. We will introduce the winning bidder to the celebrity, scientist or conservationist. The two of you then set a mutually agreeable  date, time and place to meet within one year of the close of the auction.

All winning bids are charitable contributions deductible from US Federal 2013 income taxes.  Funds raised by the auction will be used to support shark research and conservation programs.