Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Key Largo - Montego

Not content to carve their pumpkins in the traditional way, several divers carved jack-o'-lanterns more than 30 feet below the ocean's surface.

"The pumpkins want to float, so that makes it difficult," Jen Pao said. "So you're working against your own buoyancy and the pumpkin's."

Some contestants dropped a weight inside their pumpkins to keep them on the bottom. Then they sliced and pared to create their entries alongside yellowtail snapper and other fish.

The contest was staged about five miles off Key Largo.

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