Underwater Pumpkin Carving
October 28th 2006

For those of you that missed it, the Pumpkin Carve was a lot of fun! We had a perfect fall afternoon for the event, held at Mermet Springs Oct. 28 with Darren Stross, Terry Flynn, and Steve Olfe from TGADC running the event. We had about 20 or so people participate, some just for fun and some were working on earning the prestigious PADI Underwater Pumpkin Carver C-card. Some of us were quite experienced at underwater pumpkin carving (Franken-Rusty) and were all decked out with a variety of pumpkin carving accessories, others just winged it. We had a lot of great pumpkins, traditional jack 'o lanterns, scary pumpkins, creative ones, even one that had a scuba flag as part of it.

For those that had the munchies, hot dogs, chili, and chips were served in-between dives. Divers that wanted dessert had the option of going on an underwater trick 'or treat. Upside down plastic buckets with ziplocked candy inside them were laid out among the various underwater stops.

At the end of the day the fish were well fed with the pumpkin guts and everyone seemed to have a great time. Congratulations to those of you who earned the C-card and thank you to all who came out for the event. We look forward to seeing you again next year!

Sandy Guire

Content of this trip report extracted from the dive club forum