Jeremiah Sullivan is a marine biologist, inventor, adventurer and renowned photographer. He is perhaps most well-known as a pioneer of gear and techniques that allow diving with some of the ocean’s most threatening shark species.
Jeremiah is known as the first person to have conducted friendly encounters with great white sharks in the open sea in the late 1980s, proving that non-aggressive encounters were possible with even this powerful species. He also appeared on television programs like ‘Wild Kingdom,’ helping to shatter many myths about sharks, and helped pave the way for what is now a global shark diving industry, not to mention Discovery Channel’s somewhat notorious ‘Shark Week’.
During the early 1950s in Hawaii, Jeremiah learned to swim underwater before he could swim at the surface; little could hold his attention topside when he was in the water. He began work in the early ‘70s as a naturalist, director of Marine Programs, critical marine landings operations specialist, and expedition consultant and divemaster in the world’s most remote areas aboard the legendary expedition ship MV Lindblad Explorer. He has traveled the globe, venturing everywhere from the Bering Sea to the Bay of Bengal to Tierra del Fuego.
In the late 1970s, Jeremiah developed the Neptunic Sharksuit, a flexible suit of armor for divers to wear while working around sharks. The technology Sullivan developed and continues to advance is now known and used throughout the world.
Jeremiah continues to push the media to portray sharks accurately, works in remote areas of the world on the leading edge of the Eco-Adventure industry and is deeply involved in environmental issues globally, both above and below the surface of water.