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Portrait of Craig Thomas and Glenn Gollen, just before diving for sea cucumbers from the Divemaster, a commercial sea cucumber dive boat in Kasaan Bay. Thomas, with fellow diver Glenn Gollen, is a fourth-generation Alaskan facing fierce competition from sea otters for shellfish like the hefty local geoducks. “I’ve seen them dig a three-pound geoduck out of a flat sand bed in a minute and a half,” Thomas says. “It’s just mind-boggling.”