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Here in the Puget Sound,

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the carbon factories are the kelp
communities.

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Many mistake kelp

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as an annoying weed, yet it's invaluable
to fish and other wildlife.

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But there is a problem.

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We're interested in learning more

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about how we can create conditions
in which kelp can thrive.

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Puget Sounds kelp forests are diminishing.

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Now organizations are teaming up
to research and restore the supply.

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Work is nearing completion on a rest stop
designed to benefit migrating salmon.

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Salmon are incredibly resilient.

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They will figure out a way.

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And so what we're trying
to give them a little bit of a boost.

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These stories
and more next on City Stream.

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Hello, I'm Jeff Renner.

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Welcome to a special environmental edition
of CityStream 

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from Elliott Bay Park.

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From the skyline

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to the shoreline,
this park offers stunning views.

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Pier 90 sits to the west
and the grain terminals are next door.

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But across Puget Sound,

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something happening
beneath the surface is a concern.

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The sound was

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once filled with kelp forests,
long strands of algae

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that provide food and habitat
for fish and other wildlife.

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And while kelp forests
exist in the waters behind me,

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they have drastically declined

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in other parts of the sound.

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The Puget Sound Restoration
Fund is now teaming up with partners

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to devise innovative ways to restore it.

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If you thought kelp was just an annoying
weed, think again.

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Producer Pete Cassam explains
why it's so vital

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to the marine ecosystem.

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Puget Sound is an estuary and it's one of the largest
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Estuaries are productive places.

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Here in Puget Sound,

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the carbon factories are the macro algal

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and kelp communities
that are taking all of these nutrients

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and minerals that are coming
off of the land in our watersheds

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and turning it into something
that can be used in the food web.

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Whether you're talking about mussels
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or salmon or whales,

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they have kelp carbon in them.

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And that functionality and that productivity

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starts with kelp.

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We don't know why,

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all of the reasons why kelp has declined.

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Kelps were being surveyed

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initially because it was important for navigation.

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And because of that, we're able
to document losses in Puget Sound.

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It's those historic areas that right now

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we're looking at targeting
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We're at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Manchester
Research Station.

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This is where the Puget Sound Restoration
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the Ken Chew Center,

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which is shellfish hatchery, shellfish research center.

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But also it's where our kelp
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This one looks really good. Wow.

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One of the things that the lab allows us
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is to curate and manage a seed bank.

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So we will go to a kelp forest
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there from the wild kelp,
and we'll bring it into the laboratory.

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And we can collect the spores
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Right now we have roughly 20

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populations in Puget Sound of bull kelp
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and that's what we'll use for our field
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We are headed to Point Jefferson.

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We're going to go check
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Between these two bouys here
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calls the Doe Kag Wats estuary.

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There is lots of species of kelp
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We're concerned with the canopy species
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particular function as structured habitat.

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Our historic kelp bed

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was right along this stretch of shoreline.

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That's the bull kelp.

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So that's what we call Nereocystis.

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And so we planted that here from seed

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that we produced in our lab in February.

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It grew from microscopic to what

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we see here today in the adult sporophyte.

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If it's healthy, we should see

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abundant kelp where we planted it.

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Generally, if it is doing
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which is producing spores

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that's the best indicator of health.

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Size and shape

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and we monitor that over
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We look at the condition of the blade and
whether it's producing a lot of blades.

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So we actually go through
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All right, 28 blades.

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Also damage from grazers. There's all kinds of things
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Plants look good.

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They're growing well.

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They're right
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And they're doing what they're supposed to
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for the natural substrate here.

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This site is naturally occurring,

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which means no one's planting kelp here.

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A piece of cobble.

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It's really exciting to see so much that's

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creating all the habitat
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right along an area where there's
hundreds of thousands of people living.

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And each crop of bull kelp is an annual crop.

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So the one that we see
this summer has to sufficiently

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seed the bottom
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And so how do we cause that paradigm?

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How do we facilitate that?

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That's the work
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The Puget Sound Restoration Fund has partnered
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which has been monitoring
kelp fields in Elliott Bay for years.

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And the port has teamed up
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an underwater drone to learn
how kelp can be restored and protected.

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That part of the story
as CityStream continues.

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As we mentioned, Puget Sound
has seen a dramatic reduction of kelp

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forests, a vital resource
essential to the marine ecosystem.

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But in the last few years,
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There's been a resurgence of kelp
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All this is being studied

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by the Port of Seattle in partnership
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One of the tools being used is
an underwater drone known as ROV Nerio.

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They hope it'll help

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them understand how to protect Puget Sound
kelp forests in the future.

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Producer Pete Cassam has more.

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We have a century agenda goal

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to become the cleanest, greenest port
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We also have goals around
habitat restoration.

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We're interested in learning more
about how we can create conditions

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in which kelp can thrive.

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Kelp is really the manna of the sea.

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It provides numerous services
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Elliott Bay is ringed with kelp.

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Not continuously, but there are certain
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that have these mats of kelp forest.

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This is an area of urban kelp habitat.

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What we're seeing are kind
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part of Elliott Bay
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kelp beds further south.

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The genus of this species

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is Nereocystis,
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And that's
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So you can see the fronds are rather
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And it's really quite a beautiful sight,
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It can grow a hundred
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These are kelp forests, just like trees in the
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These forests allow for not only plants
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but also can sequester carbon.

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And we have a strategic relationship
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to see why it grows in some places
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And taking those lessons
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We're experimenting

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and trying to learn
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but also eelgrass beds and oyster beds,
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kind of habitats here in Puget Sound.

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We are in front of the breakwater
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and there's an extensive kelp bed
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breakwater here.

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And today looks like a pretty good day to
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Part of our partnership
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we are using an underwater
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ROV, Nereo, short for Nereocystis.

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And we do indeed use an Xbox game
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That's good.

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And we have cameras facing downwards
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And we have lights
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And our objective
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We're conducting
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So we're looking to gather information
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and where they are and what types
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So conducting about 100 meter transects,

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Gain is thirty percent.

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 You see all sorts of cobble hard substrate.

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We are 39.2 feet beneath the surface.

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What we see out there is these
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rich and vibrant kelp beds.

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There is a lot of understory
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Oh, and a nice lingcod right down there.

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Oh, yeah. Good eye.

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We can go take a peek.

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We're able to see that.

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And we're also able to see this bull kelp
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We've seen large bull kelp
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And our overarching objective
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what types of substrate bull kelp attach to and grow on.

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So what we're doing for this project is training

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A.I. algorithms to know what species are.

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So this is a sea star. This is a sea urchin. This is a fish.

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Like acrobats.

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So one of the hypotheses

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for why bull kelp doesn't do
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some preliminary observational evidence
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may be contributing to bull

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kelp failure to thrive, essentially.

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So that has led to another initiative

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that we're hoping to implement in 2023.

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And that's to place octopus

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pots, octopus homes
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And they eat the kelp crab.

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And we're hoping that
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And this is all part of what the Port sees
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to be a steward of the environment
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And I think this is good for the habitat,
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that depend on a healthy Puget Sound.

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Getting myself into a hot mess of kelp.

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And so what we're hoping to get out of
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is just really understanding
why kelp are living where they are

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and what conditions
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And so potentially we can replicate those
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That's the most tangled we've been.

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We're just getting a clue at the beginning
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this species is to the recovery
of the Salish Sea at large.

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It's clear the health of fish
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wildlife in Puget Sound
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Vital research aimed at protecting
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the growth of these forests
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In the short term, the Port
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of Natural Resources
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project this spring.

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Just ahead,

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one local company is spending millions
to create a rest stop for salmon.

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We'll explain as CityStream continues.

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The CityStream returns
from Elliott Bay Park

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with a special program
devoted to environmental concerns.

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One of the most persistent is a recurring
topic summed up with the question:

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How can we improve
the vitality of the region’s

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salmon runs?

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Along one of the most industrialized
parts of Seattle's Duwamish River,

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work is nearing completion
on a project years in the making.

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As Michael Crowe explains,

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one company is taking the lead to create a
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rest stop.

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In a cascade of noise,

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a landscape is reborn.

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The setting of Vigor’s Shipyard

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on Seattle's Harbor Island is far
from untouched wilderness.

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Here they work on everything
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Ferries fleet.

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But this effort

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is not about constructions of steel.

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This is about softening
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for some of its oldest residents:

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migrating salmon.

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So we're dredging here to generate
the clean fill

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that we're going to place up here
and build up the shallow water habitat.

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That'll be about two and a half acres
in size when it's done.

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Alan Sprott
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and says
when the company bought the site in 2011,

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it inherited a legacy of contamination
issues dating back to World War One.

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Remnants of times when the environment
was not always prioritized

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in the quest for progress.

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But much like in nearby Longfellow Creek,

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salmon still returned to the Duwamish River
every year to spawn and their young face

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new hurdles returning to the sea
like destroyed salt marshes

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that provide a gradual transition
from fresh water to the salty ocean

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and food to grow. Vigor agreed to improve
that journey as a condition

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of a consent decree with federal and state
governments and tribes

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to settle historic environmental damage
to the lower Duwamish.

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And so our our solution to that problem
was to take a really an underutilized

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portion of the shipyard
and create the shallow water habitat

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that is at the mouth of the Duwamish river.

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To that end, they removed an old wooden
build way for ship construction

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and with it, more than 5000 pilings
coated with toxic creosote.

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They took out two other piers
and have removed silt laden with PCBs

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and heavy metals.

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With that
contamination gone, the clean material

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they take from the bottom now will be used
to build up the shallow fish habitat.

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They've partnered with Salmon nonprofit

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Long Live The Kings and University
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researchers for the project.

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Salmon are incredibly resilient.

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They will figure out a way
to try to make a go of it.

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And so what we're trying to do, again, is
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give them a little bit of a boost.

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Emily McCartan of Long Live
The Kings describes this as a rest stop;

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a relatively sheltered section of healthy,
functioning estuary

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that will let young salmon
gather themselves on the way out to sea.

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Shallow water will support vegetation,
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insects for salmon to feed on.

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So as their migrating out of the river
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for the first time,

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they have a place where they can find
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and hopefully we'll see that
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into better survival.

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Before work began, researchers
sampled water and the diet of salmon

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passing through here
and across the river at Jack Block Park.

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They will continue to monitor
after completion to gauge success

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and hope this can be the first step
in a chain of industrial projects

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to assist fish.

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When you imagine healthy habitat
for salmon, you would imagine

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a really pristine
flowing river with trees on either side

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and, you know, really clean, clear water.

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They need all of those things.

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What we also know is
that Seattle is not going anywhere

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and we need to be able to figure out ways
that the systems that work for humans

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are also working for the environment
and for the fish and wildlife

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that also depend on them.

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We're all interconnected.

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Certainly salmon need
all the help they can get.

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Chinook spawning in the rivers of Puget
Sound are listed as threatened

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under the Endangered Species Act, and runs
have been declining for decades.

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You know, the expression goes, you know,
the victim died of a thousand small cuts.

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You look at Puget Sound as a whole.

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You've hardened the shoreline.

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We've reduced the grass beds and so forth.

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No, we're not going to put Harbor Island
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mudflats anytime soon.

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But the small benefits that we can
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will pay off.

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Back at Vigor, in-water

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work is slated to wrap up in February
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controls to reduce runoff.

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Then researchers will return over
time to study how the fish are doing.

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Hopefully,
there will be more of them to follow.

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For me personally, it's a really rewarding
project to have been involved with it

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from start to finish.

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And like I said, it's something that's
going to be on the landscape forever.

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Long past

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anybody that's involved in it
is on the planet that will still be here.

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Fish returning to a more natural setting
in the heart of a forest of steel.

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It’ll be exciting.
That's what we're looking forward to.

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More like what they knew for the many
years before humans changed this place.

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Hope is not lost when we have the
opportunity to say there are salmon here,

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we know that if we give them a chance,
they will figure out how to survive.

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We owe it to them
and to ourselves to give them that chance.

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Vigor says the

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habitat project cost about $28 million dollars

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and the accompanying stormwater
improvements about $5 million.

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Now, as Michael explained, work on the
project is slated to wrap up in February

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and they hope this will provide a model
for integrating natural landscapes

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into industrial spaces.

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Ahead on CityStream, student divers
take the plunge to help purge pollution.

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We'll show you next.

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Each year,
tons of trash wind up in local waterways.

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Most of it sits on the bottom,

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eventually breaking apart
and spreading debris across a wide area.

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A dedicated group from the Divers
Institute of Technology wanted to help.

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So they took the plunge in the battle
against pollution.

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We scoured the Seattle Channel archives
for this story

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reported by Brian Callanan.

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Can you guys get in the water first?

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Doing a trash cleanup today.

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We’ll put two

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teams of scuba divers alongside the pier.

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Take a deep breath

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and strap on a helmet.

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Class is now in session

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for the Divers Institute of Technology.

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We know who the first four divers are?

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Mike Hemion teaches this crew of students

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wrapping up a seven month course
on the ins

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and outs of scuba and surface
air supplied diving.

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Well, it's exciting for them
to get away from the school.

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They get to see different locations,
different water.

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I think I'm going to take a dip.

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And besides having a good time...

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Squeeze up on it.

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These young divers are getting
the real world experience they need

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to get ahead.

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Obviously, we're all students.

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But it does give you a sense of what
it's like actually

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to be out possibly in the workforce.

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When they're out looking for

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a job, especially
if they're looking at going inland.

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They're going to do this every day
when they're diving.

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But every day doesn't begin to describe
what these students are picking up on.

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Literally.

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Trash!

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Tons of it lies at the bottom

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of Lake Washington.

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Roger. Okay.

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We'll bring it over the blue bucket.

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Some of it was perhaps just an oversight
when it went overboard.

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A lot of iPhones,
a lot of phones, a lot of cameras.

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But Mike's crew can pull almost three
tons of trash out of the water

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in one session here at the marina near
Leschi Park.

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You could say they find everything
but the kitchen sink.

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But they found that, too.

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The amount of trash every year.

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It's really disgusting. Store.

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Still works...

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I don't know what other word to use.

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It didn't accidentally get there.

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This little tiny spot
that we're working today.

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You saw how much trash you pulled out.

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I mean, it speaks for itself.

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What's corroding
at the bottom of our waterways isn't

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just disgusting for divers,
but for all of us.

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Mike can see the pollution every time
he pulls an old tire from the lake.

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And when we take it out of the water,

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when we're handing it up,
we get a sheen on our hands.

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And that's obviously not good for the lake
or for the animals.

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Sad to say,

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there's not even a good estimate on
how much trash is in Seattle's waterways.

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But the silver lining here is

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the Divers Institute has volunteered

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garbage pickers ready to go year
round, eager to get in the water.

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I look forward to coming to work
when we're doing jobs like this.

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We're not just sending them out, you know,
having them walk around the bottom.

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We're actually doing something productive

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and doing something helpful
in the environment and to the community.

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The Seattle Parks Department is happy
to let these volunteers use city docks.

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A parks crew will haul this trash away.

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Just put one scuba team in at a time.

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And Mike is just grateful
for the opportunity.

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I can't think they're not getting

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in the water and cleaning up
and I'm happy that the city allows us to.

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It does feel really good.

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And it's it's nice to be able to help out.

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Call it a valuable experience in more ways
than one.

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For Mckenzie Lowsley,

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she found three unique
figurines at the bottom of the lake.

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They feel pretty heavy, like it
might be gold, or at least plated in gold.

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But before you go looking for treasure
at your local swimming hole,

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consider this.

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The water here at the end of Leschi
Park pier is about 30 feet deep,

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which doesn't sound like a lot
until you lose something.

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Yes, that's me
trying to be an intrepid reporter

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with a snorkel, mask
and an underwater camera on my head.

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And that's the camera falling

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off my head and going straight
to the bottom of the lake.

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But, have no fear.

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The Divers
Institute of Technology is here.

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Thank you.

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These students give a helping hand
that a lot of people on this lake

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say is an inspiration.

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I appreciate that. It's great.

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It makes me want to learn to scuba dive
so I can help.

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It's an environmental problem
that needs plenty of help.

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Help that the Divers Institute
is glad to provide.

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That's right.
I just think it's something we should do.

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And there's something that you can do
to: be careful

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around the waters of Seattle,
because what you drop in

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accidentally or not

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makes an impact.

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If you'd like to help in the effort
to clean up local waterways

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or you just want more information
about diving courses,

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check out this website, 

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DiversInstitute.edu.

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We'll be right back.

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Action.

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We put together a new episode of ArtZone
with Nancy Guppy every week

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to tell you about the incredible art
that surrounds us all the time.

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That's art.

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00:27:30,281 --> 00:27:33,151
That's art too.

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00:27:36,221 --> 00:27:39,324
Yeah, sure.

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00:27:39,324 --> 00:27:43,061
Our zone with Nancy Guppy Fridays at eight
on the Seattle Channel or streaming.

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00:27:43,061 --> 00:27:44,763
Any time online.

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00:27:44,763 --> 00:27:46,831
I did ask for a butterfly, but, you know,

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weiner dog, close enough.

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That wraps up the special episode
of CityStream from Elliott Bay Park.

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If you'd like to watch more of our
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I'm Jeff Renner.

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Thank you for watching.