How Charming Florida divers, snorkelers submerge for reef music pageant

In this photograph provided via the Florida Keys News Bureau, Mariah Reynolds pretends to play a neighborhood artist's musical tool sculpture Saturday, July eight, 2017, at the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival inside the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Big Pine Key, Fla. The event at Looe Key Reef attracted approximately four hundred divers and snorkelers who were given wet to concentrate to a Keys radio station's unique four-hour broadcast with tune in addition to coral reef conservation bulletins piped beneath the ocean.
A neighborhood radio station's broadcast underwater inside the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary on Saturday attracted about 400 divers and snorkelers who listened to track and announcements advocating reef protection.


The Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival at Looe Key Reef, part of the sector's 0.33-largest living coral barrier reef, featured four hours of music custom-programmed through station WWUS for subsea listening.

"We have a captive audience down there," stated Bill Becker, the event's co-founder and the station's news director. "We have divers and snorkelers being attentive to public provider announcements approximately reef upkeep, coral reef etiquette and diver consciousness.

"It's things that they can do to reduce their effect at the coral reef," he stated.

The aquatic-focused playlist included the subject from the "The Little Mermaid," the Beatles' "Octopus's Garden" and the topic from the enduring shark motion photo "Jaws."

"We just wanted to get their (individuals) attention," laughed Becker.

Other songs included Jimmy Buffett's "Fins," the subject from the television conventional "Flipper" and "Atlantis" by means of Donovan.

Participants within the water should pay attention the economic-free broadcast via Lubbell Laboratory water-proof speakers strategically hung from boats floating above the reef.

Several divers were costumed, which include  mermaids and a Sponge Bob cool animated film character. Others pretended to play Florida Keys artist August Powers' sculpted musical contraptions.

Becker described the underwater listening revel in at "airy," announcing that the sound become now not loud, but very clear and it regarded that tune could be "felt thru your frame and not just via your ears."