Who is Mark Rober from the Shark Week special 'ShaqAttack'? The YouTuber used to be hired by way of NASA and Apple.
For the second one year in a row, YouTuber Mark Rober will make an appearance during Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week — but this time, he’s teaming up with NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal and sports activities leisure conglomerate Dude Perfect for the special ShaqAttack.
In a video on his channel, which has 13.1 million subscribers, Mark published that he designed a human-shaped shark cage to test whether or not the oft-maligned sea creatures respond more to human blood or fish blood. Before you watch the 40-year-old try out his new advent, here’s what we learned in regards to the daredevil’s impressive background.
Who is Mark Rober on Shark Week's 'ShaqAttack'?
The science guru was a mechanical engineer for NASA, and spent a majority of his 9 years there working on the Curiosity rover, which is these days on Mars. He left the comfortable gig in 2013 to make wearable tech Halloween costumes (sure, actually).
"It's a little bit scary," Mark admitted in an interview with Wired when asked about quitting his task at NASA to begin his own corporate. "But at the same time, it's such a cool opportunity. It's just one of those things in life you've just got to see what happens."
He added, "One of the things that always appealed to me about NASA was we were always doing cool stuff that no one's done before. Granted nothing's as cool as building spaceships, but there is also something cool about getting an email from a [customer] that says: 'I've never given so many high-fives as I did last night.'"
Mark first joined YouTube in 2011 whilst he used to be still running at NASA and persevered to submit his own content material after changing into a product clothier for Apple, where he spent 4 years developing digital reality patents. Talk about an ideal resume.
Mark and his spouse Lisa proportion one son who is on the autism spectrum.
Every yr during Autism Awareness Month (April), the inventor makes a dependancy of posting photos and movies of his young son. "This is my boy. He has Autism," Mark wrote on Twitter in 2017. "He also has a contagious laugh and gentle, honest heart. He brings joy to all who know him."
In 2018, Mark noted, "The best part of my day is the 20 minute night time routine with my son and his stuffed animals. Repetition doesn’t bother him (in fact he prefers it) so my same jokes totally kill every night."
Mark shrunk the coronavirus earlier than he was scheduled to movie within the Bahamas.
The web persona nearly didn’t make his Shark Week closing date after trying out positive for COVID-19 earlier this summer season. "This just made me really sad because not only was I going to miss out on this epic adventure, but as far as I was concerned, I was basically just waiting to die," Mark admitted in a up to date video.
By the time he were given higher, the Bahamas had banned tourists touring from the U.S. on industrial flights — so he took a non-public jet. "Since this was the first and last time I would ever have my own personal G6, I acted like I’d been here before like the true professional I am… I mean, mostly," Mark teased.
ShaqAttack airs Monday, Aug. 10 at Nine p.m. ET on Discovery Channel.
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