Learn how to enhance your underwater pumpkin carving skills while maintaining proper buoyancy, keeping all of your appendages intact and having fun with your dive buddies! There will be prizes for most original design, scariest pumpkin and more.

Prerequisites

• You must be a PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver or have the equivalent certifications from another agency.
• Minimum age: 12 years.

Equipment

• Dive equipment including mask, fins, dive booties, snorkel, BCD, regulator, exposure suit, dive computer, surface signaling device, tanks and weights. If you need to rent gear, please let us know as soon as possible.
• A pumpkin!
• Tools for cleaning out the pumpkin, such as a large spoon or scoop--but no knives, including dive knives. Blue Planet Scuba will provide knives for carving.
• A bag to collect all pumpkin debris. Re-use of a plastic shopping/grocery bag is a good option.
• A pumpkin lighting torch.
• A “sharpie” to draw the design you wish to carve on your pumpkin underwater is optional.

What to Expect

To complete the Underwater Pumpkin Carving specialty certification, you need to make two open water dives. On one dive, you will participate as the “pumpkin wrangler” and on the other dive you will be the “pumpkin carver.” Your instructor will give a full briefing and explanation before each dive.