October 28, 2003

• Man Attempts Underwater Pumpkin Record

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Mon Oct 27,11:23 AM

  
  

  
  

  MAQUOKETA, Iowa - Mike Frantz wrestled underwater with a 1,028-pound pumpkin near this eastern Iowa town in an attempt to break a Guinness World Records title.
  

  
  

  The 28-year-old Walcott man squeezed into scuba gear and carved the mammoth pumpkin under 17 feet of water at a rock quarry. Frantz thinks he broke the current record, which he said was set when a 955-pound pumpkin was carved underwater last year.

  
  

  Frantz, who owns Mike's Giant Pumpkin Patch, got the idea from the Internet.

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