Eugenie Clark entered the male dominated world of marine biology. In the early 1940s, she participated in her first underwater dive. Shortly after, she carried out several more and the Navy presented her the invitation to study in the Southern Seas. While in this region, she viewed over three hundred unique species of fish, which were basically nonexistent during this time. Only after a few years, Clark journeyed hundreds of feet beneath the ocean’s surface to examine sleeping sharks that were inside underwater caves off of the coast of Mexico. An amazing part of Clark’s Journey was when she came face to face with a pregnant shark. During this occurrence, Eugenie dissected the whale shark and found out that it had three hundred offspring.
