Here are couple of details to add some color: Cove 2 is one of the most popular dive sites in Puget Sound. It is right in the middle of Seattle, with a stunning

Here are couple of details to add some color: Cove 2 is one of the most popular dive sites in Puget Sound. It is right in the middle of Seattle, with a stunning view on downtown. It has shower onsite for scuba divers, it has food nearby and parking is reasonably ok for Seattle. It is also benign site which is not current sensitive, meaning you can dive it pretty much anytime (no need to wait for slack or high tide etc.) This is a default place for a lot of people to take some of their classes. All the locations where octos usually hide are pretty well known to divers here. Dylan lives somewhere pretty far from that dive site and there are a lot of other places where he could have harvested an octo. Instead of doing so, he chose a most popular dive site around, place well known for people coming to look at octopuses, came there during the day and killed one of the creatures. When somewhat exasperated divers ask him "Dude, WTF?" he told them that he was in his right and suggested to mind their own business. Imagine a park somewhere, where it is well known that deer come and interact with people. There is a family playing with a nice baby deer here and then a hunter shows up, walks right to the deer, who is not afraid of people and cuts bambi's throat, right in front of the family. Yes, he is within his right to do it, but he behaved like a dick. That's what started a shitstorm, not a desire to stop harvest of Octos. There is a lot of them in Puget Sound and they are not in any danger and divers know this. Just don't be a jackass and butcher a Bambi in a petting zoo.