AND FUN DIVE

Show off your pumpkin carving talent at this years Austin Aquanauts Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest. Or, just come out and have a fun dive and watch the festivities.

The contest rules are simple.

• Bring your own pumpkin.
• Only one pumpkin used per judged entry. We're not building Frankenstein here.
• You must use a blunt tipped diving knife for carving. No specialty tools or pointed dive knives. Consider a lanyard on your knife so it does not become lost if dropped. Allowing your pumpkin to carve you with your own dive knife is considered poor form.
• No markings of any kind on the pumpkins before they go underwater. The horror begins below.
• Pumpkins are very buoyant. Please take that into consideration when planning your dive weights. Consider a bag with weight for your pumpkin.
• One small hole, no bigger that 2" in diameter, may be cut into the pumpkin to assist with submersion of the pumpkin.
• Once initially submerged, any pumpkin that touches the surface is considered complete and must be presented for judging. Whether it is actually complete or not.
• Pumpkins arriving on the surface without their divers will be considered rogue fast moving zombie pumpkins and not eligible for judging. If you are making a zombie pumpkin, it must be of the slow moving variety that ascends at 30 feet per minute with their divers. This goes for pumpkins of the non-zombie variety as well.

We'll have great prizes for the Best Pumpkin, Spookiest Pumpkin, and "Oh, Good Try".

We'll provide drinks and snacks as well. We're not sure what the food will be yet though.

See you there!

Travis County - Mansfield Dam Park 4370 Mansfield Dam Park Rd. Austin, TX 78732

This event requires a Tom's Dive & Swim liability release form to be completed.  Click the below Smart Waiver link and complete the release online before the event.

SMART WAIVER

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