Rick Kaiser - Beneath the Salish Sea

Speaker:  Rick Kaiser

Title:  Beneath the Salish Sea – SCUBA Diving in our Cold Local Waters 

Each year, millions of people explore the warm beaches and cruise the cold waters of Puget Sound and Canadian waters. Yet only a small number of passionate adventurers have fully immersed themselves in this incredible and dynamic underwater world. Rick Kaiser is one of them, and he will take you on an amazing exploration of what lies below the surface and the equipment and training required to safely and comfortably get there and back again.

Rick Kaiser has a degree in biological oceanography from the University of Washington and has worked as a scientific diver and oceanography instructor at UW. He has taught SCUBA diving and worked in dive stores in Seattle and Bellevue, and he taught intertidal marine ecology at Whatcom Community College.  He is still an active SCUBA diver with 55+ years of local diving experience and over 700 logged dives.