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Haruka Ito

Office Assistant / Instructor / Staff Naturalist

Location: Somewhere in nature
Hometown: Forests and under the sea

Nature is indescribably amazing. No matter how hard humans try to come out on top, nature's rules stay consistent within all living organisms. Even the spiraling pattern of our DNA is based on the same proportions that spiral sea shells and arrange the petals on a rose. No matter how hard we try to separate ourselves and try to "tame the wild", nature always wins. My passion is to show everyone this beauty and renew the wildness that's within all of us.  

I'll guide you underwater and open your eyes to the creatures often overlooked. I'll give you health and beauty tips using algae, and make you delicious seaweed cocktails. I'll lead you into the mountains to forage for wild foods and make seasonal drinks! Come out and explore with me!

"From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to the earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free" - Jaques Cousteau

 

OSDT Alaska Trip 2013

May 10, 2018

People often ask where my favorite dive destination is.

Well... It's hard to pick, there's so many great places and they're all unique and amazing for their own reasons. You may go to a specific destination once and it might be just okay, but you might go again and its spectacular! Conditions and situations are different, my expectations and reality can also be mismatched. So I can't say a specific place is the best. 

But I do have a trip that is one of my top diving experiences ever. That trip was diving in Alaska in September 2013. 

Here's a video taken by a member of our trip, Alex Benedik. It was one of the most jawdropping and amazing experiences of my life. 

 

 

Alaska Underwaterworld 2013 from Global Dive Media on Vimeo.

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