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Quirky Festivals of the Florida Keys
Destinations · September 30, 2002

A flotilla of powerboats hovers above a Technicolor reef, tied together like a fleet of mothballed warships. "We're almost ready," says Bill Becker, who is in command of the lead pontoon vessel.

He turns his radio up a notch. "OK," he says. "Here we go."

Becker signals to the scuba divers waiting at the stern. One by one they step off the side of the boat, plunging into the transparent Atlantic off Looe Key, Fla.

There's a rush of bubbles, and then the water erupts in music. It's the same sound coming through the boom box on the boat, except that the ocean seems to distort the Jimmy Buffett