Beaches & Adventure Insider

Can you imagine what the fish think? Credit: Friend of Lauren

I wonder what the fish think.

I imagine them swimming along, minding their own little fishy-business, maybe thinking about the bugs they ate for breakfast or maybe a sore fin – when they suddenly see some guy hacking up a pumpkin by the reef!

The wonderfully wacky annual Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest splashes into Amy Slate's Amoray Dive Resort in Key Largo on Oct. 16, 2011. If you have a yen for some submerged spookiness this Halloween season – or at least some submerged silliness – this event has your fins written all over it!

The contest is open to all certified scuba divers and is set for 8:30 a.m. Each buddy team will receive a pumpkin – pre-hollowed-out, thankfully – to carve into a jack-o-lantern.

Space aboard the dive boat is limited, so if you want to compete, I’d advise you to surf over to Amoray's website and sign up before the next high tide. There is no contest entry fee, and the regular dive boat fee is $80 per diver for the two-tank dive. For more information call 800-426-6729.

Smells like fun to me!