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Posted: March 07 2006 at 5:58pm |
Anyone know what's up with Bonneville Seabase? I looked at their site but was still a little hazy as to what it is, and more importantly, WHY? I mean, it seems really awesome, but why would anyone build such a thing in the middle of the Utah desert? Any members of WMAS associated with Bonneville Seabase? Do they give tours? Is it just for SCUBA or do they breed and sell fish too? Where do they get that much salt, and how do they keep it running (financially)? Any info would be appreciated.
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 6:03pm |
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It`s a natural hot spring that they are pulling water from....
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 6:18pm |
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It's naturally salty! Linda, the woman who runs it, is the sweetest person!
I believe they mostly just do scuba there, but Linda will gladly give you a
tour, and maybe a few SW mollies!
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 6:30pm |
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Are you saying it naturally has the same salinity as the ocean, so these fish can thrive there?
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 6:44pm |
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That was considered one of my open water dives when I was registered
for scuba
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 6:49pm |
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Yes! I think....
Linda adopts fish that grow too big for others tanks, and has some from
the Atlantic Aquarium in NYC, and other aquariums.
It does have more minerals than seawater so Linda was struggling with
growing green plantage, last time i saw her...
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 6:57pm |
jbera-
Some of us have been there many many times. I could probably answer all your questions but it would take forever. I'll post pics later...
yes big lake, naturally as salty as the ocean, filled with fish, some fish (like a dozen french angels) are 18 inches across!!!, fish breeding, 2 sharks that are 5 feet long.... cool stuff.
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 8:02pm |
Its a great place to take kids to snorkel, take some heads of lettuce and the kids will be amazed.
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 9:26pm |
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yes big lake...Adam
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Adam, Shane H., and I were just there a couple of days ago.
I really wouldn't call it a "big lake". Maybe a big pond, or a really small lake.
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Posted: March 08 2006 at 10:02am |
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It's pretty sweet - smells terrible - but that's how hot springs tend to be.
There were some sweet tangs in there as well.
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Posted: March 08 2006 at 2:55pm |
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Yeah its a cool place. I gave linda a bunch of coral and snails last year to try to grow. Linda is a really nice person and its fun to snorkel there as well.
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Posted: March 10 2006 at 9:37am |
I went out there yesterday about 4:00 (site says they close at 4, but it's 3 in the winter). She was really nice and it was kinda cool. I never guessed that such a place existed. She said the water is naturally slightly less salty than the ocean but the fish seem to do alright. While we were there she threw some food in the water and, among other fish, one of the 8 FOOT NURSE SHARKS came up for a look. WOW, that thing is huge. Several awesome looking fish. She said that if we wanted to come out early one morning (about 7am) we could watch them feed all the fish. The sharks come right up to the edge and put their noses out of the water kinda "begging" for food. BTW, you have to call and arange to stop in that early.
It was really cool, but I don't know if I could swim in there with sharks that big. I know they are the most docile sharks in the ocean but still, it is a shark. Some of the fish are nearly as big as me.
Oh, yeah, if you go out, the dogs are harmless but they will run right up to your car as you park.
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Posted: March 10 2006 at 9:46am |
It was really cool, but I don't know if I could swim in there with sharks that big. I know they are the most docile sharks in the ocean but still, it is a shark. Some of the fish are nearly as big as me.
Jake and I have sat at the bottom just petting the sharks. Personally I think they get tired of the attention.
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Posted: March 10 2006 at 10:38am |
Yeah, I have this real phobia about swimming in natural bodies of water. Pools are fine, but lakes and oceans... It's not that I am afraid of the fish, or even the sharks in this case, I am afraid of what I can't see, what might be lurking 5 feet into the shadows just waiting for me to turn my back so it can come flying out of the dark at lightning speed and attack me without warning with a vengance like......., sorry, got a little carried away. Sure, I'll swim in pineview, strawberry, willard, bear lake and other lakes, but not for very long. The larger the body of water, the less likely I'll get in, especially Pineview with those man eating tiger muskies . I guess I'm just a wuss. I don't even have a cool story about being atacked by a trout when I was young to explain it.
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Posted: March 10 2006 at 12:13pm |
This reminds me of snorkling at Catalina Island. There's a buoy out about 300 ft from the beach. After snorkling around through the kelp we decided to swim out to the bouy. It's kind of fun to be swimming at the surface and watch the bottom slowly sink out of view as we reached the bouy. Then it's just a 12" chain dropping down into oblivion and thousands of light rays reflecting in the water. It's at that point that I remember watching shark week on Animal Planet where some guys were towing a surf board behind a boat (with a camera installed in the surf board, pointed down into the water). Filming great white sharks race up from the depths and attack the board. Hmmm, I wonder if I look like a surf board or maybe a seal?  . The swim back to the beach went quicker then the swim out.
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