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Podcast: Artifice
Episode: Ep. 232: Casey Parlette
Description: Growing up in Southern California, Casey Parlette developed a deep
connection to wildlife while exploring the region’s hills and ocean.
Inspired by these experiences, he began sculpting at a young age. After
earning a degree in anthropology from UCLA, Casey worked as a
commercial diver and later as a career ocean lifeguard in Laguna Beach.
His adventures include operating underwater cameras for the television
series Inside Sportfishing, traveling to remote regions of the world, and
spending eight months in the Peruvian Amazon, where he discovered a
previously unknown fish species now classified as Rivulus parlettei. A
naturalist at heart, Ca...