VIDEO: YouTuber draws the viewer under the Salish Sea in Sidney - Trail Times

Langford diver Ryan Swan started his Be Sea Adventures channel on YouTube for myriad reasons. At the top of the list are education and conservation. The latest video focuses on a cleanup of the Salish Sea near Sidney. The waters between two piers at the base of Beacon Avenue became the focus this year. On Oct. 4, a team of volunteer divers and community partners did a permitted ghost gear cleanup, removing roughly 250 kilograms of abandoned crab traps, nets, rope, cable and line from the water.

Langford diver Ryan Swan started his Be Sea Adventures channel on YouTube for myriad reasons. At the top of the list are education and conservation. The latest video focuses on a cleanup of the Salish Sea near Sidney. The waters between two piers at the base of Beacon Avenue became the focus this year. On Oct. 4, a team of volunteer divers and community partners did a permitted ghost gear cleanup, removing roughly 250 kilograms of abandoned crab traps, nets, rope, cable and line from the water.

Langford diver Ryan Swan started his Be Sea Adventures channel on YouTube for myriad reasons. At the top of the list are education and conservation. The latest video focuses on a cleanup of the Salish Sea near Sidney. The waters between two piers at the base of Beacon Avenue became the focus this year. On Oct. 4, a team of volunteer divers and community partners did a permitted ghost gear cleanup, removing roughly 250 kilograms of abandoned crab traps, nets, rope, cable and line from the water.

Tiny sea spiders in Canada's Salish Sea are giving scientists a rare glimpse into an often-overlooked part of coastal life. Two of the creatures are entirely new to science. Some sea spiders feed on hydroids, including jellyfish, by draining their fluids through a proboscis.

An image of the new sea spider species, Callipallene pilosuspedes. Credit: Cormac Toler-Scott If you're swimming in the Salish Sea late at night and feel a skittering along your calves, tiny hairy feet tip-tapping their way higher and higher toward your face, don't worry—it's probably just the stuff of nightmares: hairy-legged, red-eyed sea spiders newly discovered by UBC researchers.

A partnership between University of Victoria (UVic) and Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF) scientists and recreational anglers in British Columbia is exploring the diet of adult Chinook salmon and helping us better understand the food chain in the Salish Sea. The Adult Salmon Diet Program, led by UVic biologist and Liber Ero Chair for Fisheries Research Francis Juanes and PSF biologist Will Duguid, is a citizen science initiative that analyzes the stomach contents of adult Chinook salmon caught by recreational anglers. Since 2017, more than 250 recreational anglers have submitted the guts of their catches and researchers have analyzed more than 7,000 salmon stomachs to date.