As a photographer, Earl “creates portraits that capture the essence of people who matter”. “Challenge shapes the soul,” and in choosing this image as his self-portrait Earl reveals his “hidden truth..often hidden from the world”. Earl seems oblivious to how dark and tortured the self-portrait paints his captured “essence”. He even chopped off his ear, Vincent-style.
ANOTHER! UPDATE January 2025: Click here for Earl’s latest and perhaps MOST delusional screed in some time. This is a case of classic projection.. seeing in others your very own faults and failures. (Note: Earl’s comment that the people who I have contacted, people like his family, ex-wives, expedition partners, business partners and family friends, have all ignored me is proveably rubbish. Earl! I know you read this page. Just ask for their names and the correspondence!
UPDATE January 2025: Earl is creating new web pages like crazy, all to promote himself, here, here and here. Interesting to note that Earl, who never let’s us forget how authentic and experienced he is as a leader, photographer, educator, etc. etc., is using (pretty obvious and pretty cheesy) AI generated images of “explorers” to illustrate his pages. Like this and this. Here’s an annotated version of Earl’s latest online CV. https://earldeblonville.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/www.arcticexplorer.com_founder_explorer-author-educator-c-suite-coach-academic-researcher-corporate-leadership-consultant.png I am still waiting for Earl to take down his childish, defamatory post here. UPDATE November 2024: Earle has erased any mention of his spectacularly failed Oceanic Research Institute (ORI) from his public pages. Now he promotes himself as a photographer in Byron Bay and (sigh) the old canard about being an exalted “global leadership expert”. This time Earl is going with a font so large it shouts and a bunch of stock images. Of interest is this page where he now claims the playground equipment company he started in England is/was worth 26 million dollars. He leaves out how he, the consummate leader and savvy business consultant, was cheated out of all that dough. No doubt people in England, who Earl conned out of thousands of dollars and then skipped back to Oz, feel his pain.
On April 7, 2024 ORI’s non-profit status was voluntarily revoked. Oceanic Research Institute is over with no explanation from the principals, Earl and Jennifer, about where the money went.
UPDATE September 2023: The classic, 100 year old Schooner ‘La Boheme’, the “flagship” of Oceanic Research Institute, has followed Earl’s sailboat ‘Courage’ into the landfill in Denmark. Earl’s girlfriend, Jennifer Gidley, purchased the schooner in 2011 for several hundred thousand Euro. After ten years of failure to pay any of the fees and charges owed to the shipyard where La Boheme was abandoned, the sad schooner is being sliced up with a chainsaw and hauled away. Here’s a video of the chainsaw action: https://faa.dk/video/faa/video-on-demand/866ac887-a47f-41bb-b7d3-d25fe5da241d and the article in English is here: https://earldeblonville.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/La-Boheme-cut-up-destroyed-news-article-and-video.pdf
UPDATE July 2023: Earl de Blonville is no longer an Adjunct Professional Fellow at Southern Cross University, NSW. Jennifer Gidley is no longer an Adjunct Full Professor at SCU. The website for Oceanic Research Institute has gone dark. Earl no longer mentions ORI on his LinkedIn site. Gidley makes no mention of ORI in her online bios. The entire ORI/SCU “Save the Ocean with electric sailboats” scam appears to be kaput. Over the course of 6 years, ORI raised no significant money, accomplished none of its promised goals. 6 years of blustering, pontificating, promising, bragging and failing.
This website is an Internet cyber-highway billboard. It’s meant to catch the eye of anyone with direct knowledge of Earle de Blonville’s career. Created in 2013, the site continues to attract varied sources on Earl de Blonville’s professional history from his youth to the current day. It is part of a journalism project about self-declared “explorers” who promote themselves with the implied veracity of the internet. Earle is not cooperating with the project and refuses to answer the most basic questions about inconsistencies, exaggerations, and outright falsehoods that populate his career and his much-trumpeted, carefully crafted professional myth.
Earle has a very high opinion of himself and spends a lot of time crafting his public image. Here’s a partial collection of his headshots.
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Of necessity, it has also morphed into a repository of information addressing Earle de Blonville’s tired claim to being a victim of cyberstalking by yours truly. I have operated under my own name, never threatened Earl or anyone else and I have been entirely transparent about my purpose and willingness to engage. I have successfully collaborated with journalists at Denmark’s Politken and Fyns Amts Avis newspapers. Those collaborations drew extensively on my web-based research and resulted in exposes of Ripley and Laura Davenport and Earl de Blonville and Oceanic Research Institute. Earle’s response throughout has been puerile name-calling, speculation about my character, mental health, sexual preferences, and a complete refusal to answer basic questions about his dubious professional claims. Earle has created and published a number of anonymous websites attacking me, full of feverish balderdash and childish lies. I have, as anyone would, pushed back against these ad hominem attacks. If you are one of the people who Earle has exhorted to ignore me as a mentally ill troll, troubled “Aspy” and “closet queer”, cuckold and psychopath I encourage you to a: read the material and b: think for yourself.
If you have questions of me or wish to share information about Earle de Blonville or the Oceanic Research Institute, leave a comment or contact me, Kent Madin at: rett139@yahoo.com +1-406-595-2310