Local scuba divers will celebrate Easter by diving for hard-boiled eggs.
Tracey Boehnlein, an employee at Scuba Monkey Dive Center, will join her husband, Tim, and Tim’s brother, Joe, to host the company’s Fourth Annual Underwater Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday.
The event is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. at Devil’s Den and will include hot dogs and hamburgers, she said.
“We’re always looking for different things to do to make the dives special,” Boehnlein said.
Up to 85 scuba divers are expected to search for about 250 hard-boiled eggs, each marked with numbers that correspond to prizes, she said. Each diver is allowed to claim three eggs. Boehnlein said divers might face unexpected competition during the hunt for eggs.
“If we miss them, the turtles and catfish will eat them,” she said.
One competitor spot was open as of Wednesday, Boehnlein said, but spectators can join the spectacle for $10.
Prizes ranging in price from $350 to $500 will be awarded to three divers who find golden eggs, Tim Boehnlein said.
Taya Harstrom, a 17-year-old high-school junior at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School, said she earned her scuba certification in the summer of 2015.
Harstrom said she plans to attend the hunt and gain more diving experience.
“I like just being able to explore more,” she said. “When you don’t have oxygen, you have to come up for air and you can’t see as much.”
