When Ben Kappel, now the assistant manager of dive immersion programming, started working at the Georgia Aquarium as an intern almost 10 years ago, he saw Scuba Claus for the first time. There was something magical about Santa underwater, with his jolly red neoprene suit, white beard billowing in scuba bubbles and manta-ray “reindeer” soaring through the salt water of the aquarium’s Ocean Voyager exhibit.
The sight captured Kappel’s imagination, and a dream was born.
