It's my favorite time of year - Halloween! Each year, the Aquarium throws a party exclusively for members and their guests, called
Fish, Fun & Fright. To add to the festivities, we carve a few dozen pumpkins and put the Jack-O-Lanterns into the Giant Ocean Tank around the reef with glow sticks inside. Myrtle and some of the angelfishes like it when we do this, as some of them find pumpkins tasty!
Many of the guests come in costume, so since we don't like for everyone else to have all the fun, we dive in costume in the
GOT as well! It can be a bit tricky coming up with a costume that will work underwater. You have to consider the material, reduced gravity, being able to equalize your ears, entanglement, etc. We had seven unique and fun costumes this year.
Here is
Mike as a clown, always a crowd favorite.
Don wore a Davy Jones (from Pirates of the Caribbean) mask, which he said prevented him from seeing much of anything during his dive.
Andrea's idea was to incorporate the SCUBA backpack into her costume, and was a Ghostbuster.
Liz (right) was a fairy and had a lot fun casting spells on the visitors through the windows. She won 'best underwater costume', as voted by all costumed divers.
I (left) dressed up as a man on the moon, and walked around weightless-like on the bottom of the tank.
Sam, arrrgh, dove in as a pirate (with a fake sword I promise), and took 2nd prize.
Happy Halloween!
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Chris
