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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		A 19 Year Old Kid Takes On A Giant Pacific Octopus And Hate Rains Down From Adults
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:10:14
	Publish Date:		2018-09-22 12:02:00
	Description:		Back in 2012 Dylan Mayer was 19 years old. He was a few years into a new passion: scuba diving. He says spending time under water in Puget Sound is like visiting an alien planet full of strange creatures. “There is a large fish down there called a Cabazon. It’s a large fish. It’s and ugly fish. And, it will come right up to you. It will nudge you with it’s nose and its face. It’s very curious about what you are,” said Dylan. Dylan grew up in Maple Valley Washington, just outside of the liberal blue bubble of Seattle. Dylan learned young how to hunt and do farm work. On October 31, 2012 he set out to marry his love of scuba diving with his desire to be self sufficient and harvest his own food. That gray morning, the goal was to pluck a giant pacific octopus from its den, wrestle it to the surface and take it home for dinner. He and a friend headed to the popular dive site at Cove 2 in West Seattle. With his bare hands, Dylan caught an 80 pound cephalopod. “The key is to stay calm. Once
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