Seattle Divers Are Planning a New Underwater Park

In dark, greenish water, fish the same mottled gray as the rocks below them make sharp turns or float aimlessly. Sea plants grow from hunks of concrete or metal, the industrial shapes of dock foundations or boat parts covered in barnacles. And suddenly, a blocky geometric dome emerges in the deep, like an underwater greenhouse coated in lumps of plumose anemones shaped like ghostly mushrooms. All this, just feet from a ferry dock.

Scuba diving in Washington may not look anything like the tropical version, with those postcard-ready coral reefs and clownfish—and that clear visibility. But the underwater scene around Seattle thrives thanks to teeming

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