Underwater Music Festival

25th Annual Underwater Music Festival
by digitalislandmedia

The 25th Annual Underwater Music Festival in the Florida Keys at Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary, 6 miles south of Big Pine Key in the summer of 2009.

A Beatles tribute band consisting of the submerged Fab Four of “Ringo Starfish,” “John Lemon-shark,” “Paul McCarpney” and “George Herringson,” accompanied by backup singer “Mako Ono,” rocked the Yellow Submarine in the waters of the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States last year.

The festival was founded by radio newsman Bill Becker. Local radio station WWUS 104.1 FM stages the event for Scuba divers and snorkelers who want to add a little music to their underwater adventures.

Florida Keys artist August Powers has sculpted a variety of aquatic musical instruments, including sea guitars, keyboards, clambourines, manta-lin, the drumfish, the sea-phan flute and the Fluke-a-Lele.

Underwater speakers were donated by Lubell Laboratories based in Columbus, Ohio. The speakers are suspended from boats to audibly reproduce the symphony under the sea.

I wonder what the fish think...