MARATHON — A scuba diving Santa Claus was noticed spreading good cheer in the Florida Keys when, alternatively of heading down a chimney, he submerged Wednesday at Florida Keys Aquarium Encounters.
Visitors appeared thrilled to see Santa at the maritime ecological attraction in Marathon in the Center Keys, wherever individuals can snorkel and dive in the facility’s 200,000-gallon Coral Reef tank.
The jolly old elf included the cease on his fast paced holiday break plan to thank the aquarium’s fish and other maritime creatures for serving as educational ambassadors about the abundant range of sea daily life in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary that features the continental United States’ only coral barrier reef.
Captain Spencer Slate of Slate’s Scuba Adventures donned Kris Kringle garb and doled out yummy treats to the aquarium’s people.
Recipients of Scuba Santa’s holiday break generosity involved curious cownose rays, a selection of reef fish, and Florida lobster.
Guests to Aquarium Encounters can e book underwater encounters in the tank to find out far more about the Keys’ reef ecosystem. There are choices for snorkelers as effectively as licensed and non-qualified divers applying a hookah underwater respiratory technique.
Although it is prohibited to feed fish in the open up waters of the sanctuary, Aquarium Encounters’ visitors have the choice, as Santa did, to provide food to the attraction’s inhabitants.
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