Slinky mermaid figure, that moves around, with hair swirling, amongst the gently rising and sinking blobs of melted wax, inside your lava lamp.-- xenzag, Feb 26 2007 Cartesian Diver http://www.seed.slb...lab/diver/index.htmManually controlled version [csea, Feb 27 2007] Baking soda Submarines http://www.torgo.org/bpsubs/they still make them ! Why go nuclear when you just use baking soda ? [xenzag, Feb 27 2007] My girlfriend is a mermaid. Not sure she herself would enjoy swimming in melted wax, but she'd like this ornament. [+]
For those with more macabre tastes, you could make it a normal figure, looking like a drowning person.-- imaginality, Feb 26 2007 How about a little Pompeian girl?-- MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 26 2007 ... or a freaked out looking hippie.-- jaksplat, Feb 26 2007 I'd buy the hippie version first, actually.-- shapu, Feb 27 2007 Reminiscent of the popular elementary school science fair demonstration "cartesian diver" - which sinks or floats based on external pressure. [link]-- csea, Feb 27 2007 The littlest magmaid.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Feb 27 2007 I can remember our old lemonade bottles having a large screw top stopper, which sealed in place with a red elastic ring. You could buy a toy diver, which you placed in the bottle filled with water. When you screwed down the stopper he sank, and when it was relaxed he rose up. I also seem to recall a diver with a cavity that you had to fill with a tiny amount of baking soda to make him work,....-- xenzag, Feb 27 2007 Ahh... the baking soda divers. I had a submarine like that, and got hours of diving-surfacing-scaring the hell out of my fish-enjoyment when I discovered that i could operate it without the baking soda if I just let the bubbles in my aerating aquarium power filter stick onto it.-- ye_river_xiv, Feb 27 2007 random, halfbakery