EP 64: Dean Burke, Tacoma and the Sea

Around the Buoy

Situated on Puget Sound and only 42 miles from Mt. Rainier, Tacoma, Washington is a beautiful city. But decades of industrial abuse at the turn of the century turned the pristine waters into an EPA Superfund Site.

This episode’s guest is Dean Burke. Dean is the head of Travel Tacoma and has chronicled the healing of the region’s waterways over the past two decades through his stunning photography. An avid waterman, he further promotes the region with the Seventy48, a human-powered mad dash from Tacoma to Port Townsend. Listen in!