{"id":663,"date":"2021-11-03T16:29:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2021-11-03T16:29:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:29:37","slug":"underwater-pumpkin-carving-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Underwater Pumpkin Carving Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/underwater_pumpkin_carving2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-664\" width=\"614\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/underwater_pumpkin_carving2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/underwater_pumpkin_carving2-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><figcaption><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">Image: dumpaday.com and worldarchitectur.blogfa.com<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With their favorite <strong>marine creatures <\/strong>in <strong>mind<\/strong>, a <strong>group of divers <\/strong>dived into the <strong>Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary<\/strong> to make underwater lanterns during the <strong>\u0410nnual Underwater Pumpkin Carving Competition<\/strong> in the waters off <strong>Key Largo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/underwater_pumpkin_carving.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-665\" width=\"606\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/underwater_pumpkin_carving.jpg 550w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/underwater_pumpkin_carving-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Underwater artists of all ages used <strong>dive knives<\/strong> and <strong>fine carving tools<\/strong> to <strong>transform <\/strong>their <strong>pumpkins <\/strong>into amazing <strong>sea creatures<\/strong>. Nearly <strong>15 divers<\/strong> also were <strong>challenged <\/strong>to keep the naturally buoyant <strong>pumpkins <\/strong>from <strong>floating off <\/strong>while they <strong>carved their characters<\/strong>. It can take upto <strong>2 hours <\/strong>to carve a <strong>pumpkin underwater<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/4582667_103018-kgo-water-carve-img_Image_00-00-2114-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/4582667_103018-kgo-water-carve-img_Image_00-00-2114-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/4582667_103018-kgo-water-carve-img_Image_00-00-2114-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/4582667_103018-kgo-water-carve-img_Image_00-00-2114-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/4582667_103018-kgo-water-carve-img_Image_00-00-2114-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/4582667_103018-kgo-water-carve-img_Image_00-00-2114-1568x882.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/4582667_103018-kgo-water-carve-img_Image_00-00-2114.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Curious fish spectators <\/strong>swam near to the <strong>underwater attraction<\/strong>, hanging around for any bits of <strong>food <\/strong>that <strong>floated off<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The annual contest was <strong>scheduled around October\u2019s traditional Halloween celebrations<\/strong>, and was staged near a <strong>shallow coral reef <\/strong>about <strong>five miles <\/strong>off <strong>Key Largo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With their favorite marine creatures in mind, a group of divers dived into the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to make underwater lanterns during the \u0410nnual Underwater Pumpkin Carving Competition in the waters off Key Largo. Underwater artists of all ages used dive knives and fine carving tools to transform their pumpkins into amazing sea&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=663\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Underwater Pumpkin Carving Competition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}