Thread: Need Dry Ice Advice!!

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My best friend and I are having a Sci-Fi themed Bday party. We have a swimming pool on our patio an are looking to remake a scene from the Creature from the black lagoon or something along those lines.

My question is, knowing that dry ice will crack the pool (tiles or other), does anyone have some advice as to how i can pull this off. We want the dry ice fog to cover the whole pool. Im thinking i need something that wont melt or crack to float it in (with an lure to anchor it to the bottom).

Any ideas??

And yes we have thought of just using fog machines but we only have a few to use and a large house we are decorating to the max, so we'll need it.

Thanks!!

Yes it has.
A church haunt made a raised platform/floor, built a graveyard on it, had dry ice for a fog effect , the fumes are heavier than air, they "fell" under the floor , the man laying there to be reaching up through the grave had only this to breathe, he died.
Not fiction.

Look at the Cold water fogger over at Pale Night Productions. Kip and the gang have some really cool fog systems.

I've seen this in action in swamp scene at the Darkness in St. Louis and it really is amazing. After all is said and done, it will run you about as much as the dry ice and be usable again at another time.

Pale Night Productions

ouch, $200, are these "cold water foggers" the same ones they sell at Spirit or are these much much bigger?

I like how they say to get the same effect you need to buy a "messy" chiller.........heh

Take your dry ice (in the past i used nuggets) and place them into a small mesh bag (nylon, or some other durable material) and weight them under water (pool) with a heavy lead sinker (like the ones for deep sea fishing). Dry ice should float thus keeping the weighted bag above your pool liner or tiles. Once the (Very) cold dry ice sinks in the (obviously) warmer water, the bubbles will froth for quite some time. I used dry ice for my witches cauldron but the problem was, i had to keep filling it allllllllllllllllll night long. I would make several of these bags distributed throughout the pool to even out the effect, and also, so guests can locate them easier than floating chunks of the stuff that comeone could get burned on.

Dry ice works...for about 5 minutes. then you have to replenish them. It's not worth the work.

I'm really betting that you could probably hook up a sort of "hose" system directly to your fogger and submerge that hose under the water somehow and when the fogger goes off the "fogged" air will bubble to the surface creating the effect you seek. Sort of like the fog bubble machines you see today, pop the bubbles and "poof" smoke! Morbius is correct.....dry ice is a huge pain in the A** to maintain all evening just to create an effect. It's great for the moment but has no longevity.

It will work fine in the pool with no cracking

Some friends tried this in their pool and it didn't work. With the volume of water and surface area (not to mention wind blowing it away) you would need a truck load to get the effect your looking for.

Your best bet is a fog machine and chiller.

I dont think a fogger could push enough air to go through a submerged hose, thats a lot of water to push out of the way....