- December 18, 2025
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When Blair Bloomston was 12 years old, she had to figure out a way to dive 25 feet underwater and come back to the surface with a handful of sand.
The complicated feat is a family rite of passage, part of an annual lobster scuba diving trip in the Florida Keys. Bloomston pulled off the sand trick, eventually, after many failures. Says Bloomston: “It was pure stubbornness.”