Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Seattle Aquarium Dome Dive



I've been a volunteer at the Seattle Aquarium for the past 7 years now. I'm a SCUBA diver in the Underwater Dome which is a 390,000 gallon tank filled with saltwater and fish indigenous to this area of Puget Sound. This is a short video that I edited down from footage that my dive buddy, Curtis, shot of me feeding the fish. You'll see a halibut, lots of salmon, a wolf eel (my favorite in the Dome) and a spiny dog fish which is a small shark. In the final shot you'll see a ling cod sitting just to the left of me. With exception to an occasional salmon that smacks into our head, the fish are not at all aggressive, although they can look rather menacing. The water was about 48 degrees this day and it was snowing when we entered the water. Some days it's a little hard to get motivated to do the dive, but once I'm in the water I love being there. It's a lot of fun.

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