Growing Nisqually tribal business makes waves

Friday, May 29, 2009

Puget Sound Business Journal

Eighty feet below the surface of the water, Nisqually tribal divers are repairing a trans-Pacific telecommunications cable that’s chafing against the rocky sea floor.

As deep as they are, the divers can still feel the force of the powerful waves above them. They must contend with constant changes in the pressure on their bodies as the mass of water eight stories above them crests and falls.

This assignment off the shore of Coos Bay, Ore., is the latest expansion of a commercial diving business the Olympia-based Nisqually Indian Tribe started in the mid-’90s to increase its shellfish harvest.

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Growing Nisqually tribal business makes waves