Back in 2012, Dylan Mayer was 19 years
old. He was a few years into a new passion: scuba (水肺) diving. He says spending time under
water is like visiting an alien planet full of strange creatures.
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 decided 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 pull 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 (头足类动物). "The key is to stay calm. Once
you start to panic, you'll drown," said Dylan, recalling his 45-minute
hand-to-tentacle (触须) battle with the octopus.
But when he hauled it out of the water,
people nearby didn't look very happy. Dylan and his dive partner threw the
octopus in the back of their truck and quickly left the scene.
Even though what Dylan did was
perfectly legal and even though octopus is on restaurant menus all over the
Northwest, the taking of this particular octopus touched a nerve. Adult members
of the diving community that Dylan was so excited to be a part of not only
roundly rejected him, but also threatened to kill him and his family. However,
one diver from the Cove 2 community rose above the criticism to guide this
young diver.
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