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Hi Simon.
Yes, every year around holloween time, Sea
Pines dive club here in Hudson, Fl., hosts a underwater pumpkin carving contest.
You can't start carving the pumpkin til you are in
the water and no faces can be drawn on them. Totally freehand carving
underwater.
We go out a few miles into the gulf in several
boats. Then we flip over the side and people on the boat pass us our pumpkins.
We have 30 mins
to carve the best holloween pumpkin face we can.
Then we have judges decide who carved the best pumpkin underwater. The winner
gets prizes like
a dive light or wet suit, etc. Because the pumpkin
wants to float, he thing to do is to cut out the pumpkin stem on top and place a
weight into the
pumpkin so it will sit on the bottom because
it is very hard to carve the pumpkin if it is
floating. It's just a fun thing we do like some people bob for
apples. We have an underwater pumpkin carving
contest in celebration of Holloween.
Bill.
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