Scott Deal had a very busy job and he liked it that way.

When I first started we would have close to a hundred thousand boats a year.

Massive amounts of recreational traffic.

Was that fun?

It was a lot of fun.

Everybody would just go out on their boats to go get drunk and everything.

Scott worked at Seattle's Ballard Locks.

The locks is essentially an aquatic elevator. Boats go in and get raised and

lower. That allows them to travel between the salt water Puget Sound and a couple of freshwater

lakes. It was Scott's job to make sure those vessels got through smoothly.

That didn't always happen.

People would get mad at each other

because they thought somebody cut in ahead of you and then they would have

exchange of words or even sometimes throwing bottles at each other.

And that was fun for you when people would throw bottles at each other.

Well, it was just hilarious to see human behavior. I mean, if you wanted to study how people are, that was a place.

The locks were all place.

The locks were also a great place to observe other species. I was a little kid in the early mid-late 80s and one of our favorite things to do on weekends was to go to

the Ballard Locks and watch this hurricane of fish. That's journalist Kate Gamin.

As a kid she saw all kinds of fish pass through the locks on their way to spawn.

They swam down their own private concrete passageway. It was called a fish ladder and it was on display for everyone to see.

So you enter a cement building and then take these stairs down and suddenly you're in this

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