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The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became

the Oceans Most Fearless Scientist

Written by Jess Keating Illustrations by Marta lvarez Miguns

To my parents, for encouraging my big-as-a-whale-shark dreams,

and to Kathleen, for helping me reach them.

JK

To my Baobab friends.

MAM

I

t was Saturday, and Eugenie wanted to stay at the

aquarium forever. She wanted to smell the damp,

salty air and stare at the glittery rainbow of fish.

She wanted to keep watching her favorite animals

The sharks.

Eugenie pretended she was walking on the bottom of the sea. What would it be like to

swim with her sharks? To breathe underwater with gills of her own?

More than anything, she

wanted to find out.

When the summer came, Eugenies mother took her

to swim at the beach in Atlantic City.

Stuffing sticky gum into her ears to keep the water out, Eugenie dove,

down,

down,

down.

The salt stung her eyes, but she didnt want to miss a single fish.

Constellations of sea stars speckled the pebbled sand. She imagined a

silvery fin standing strong on her back, slicing through the ocean current.

To others, sharks were ugly and scary. But Eugenie knew they were beautiful. As she

glided through the cool water, she wished everyone could see sharks through her eyes.

But the sharks were only in her mind, for now. Eugenie decided to learn everything she

could about them.

So she dove

this time into books. Whale sharks. Nurse sharks. Tiger sharks. Lemon sharks.

Eugenie wanted to know about them all. She also joined the Queens County Aquarium

Society as its youngest member.

Eugenies notebooks filled with sharks. They swam in her daydreams and on the

margins of her pages.

At home, Eugenies mother surprised

her with an aquarium of her own.

A fifteen-gallon tank was much too

small for sharks, but Eugenie saved her

allowance to buy

guppies,

clown fish,

and coral-red snails.

It felt as big as an ocean in her room.

Their small apartment became an aquarium,

a laboratory, and a sanctuary.

As she grew older, many were still telling Eugenie what to do.

Forget those sharks. Be a secretary! Be a housewife! Eugenie wanted

to study zoology, but some of her professors thought women werent

smart enough to be scientists or brave enough to explore the oceans.

And they said sharks were mindless monsters.

Eugenie knew better. Her dream

was as big as a whale shark.

So again, Eugenie dove.

She plunged into every course she could. Her laboratory became her home.

From sunrise to sunset, she studied how fish grow,

and how they were put together,

both inside and out.

how they behave,

Despite all of the people who didnt believe in her, Eugenie

was becoming one of the smartest students in her field. Even after

she earned her degree, many still doubted her.

In the Red Sea, Eugenie collected hundreds of fish, including three

new species that had not been discovered before.

But Eugenies work was just beginning. Eager to make

discoveries of her own, Eugenie nally dove into the open ocean.

Barred xenia pipesh:

Siokunichthys bentuviai

Red Sea sand diver:

Trichonotus nikii

Volcano triplen:

Helcograa vulcana

On a research mission exploring the Palau Islands,

Eugenie was diving alone when she encountered her rst

ever wild shark. She wasnt afraid. Instead, she thought it

was beautiful.

In Isla Mujeres, she dispelled the myth that sharks

must keep moving to stay alive when she swam through

dark cavesstill and silentfull of resting sharks.

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