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As Gasparilla Float, 'Titanic' Is A Winner

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Published: February 8, 2009

TAMPA - The grand prize winner of Saturday's Gasparilla Parade of the Pirates depicted one of history's most catastrophic maritime disasters.

The Krewe of Molly Brown took top honors for a float designed to look like the Titanic sinking, said Victor Leavengood, spokesman for the parade judges.

Two judges not associated with any krewes made the selections.

Other winners include:

- Best Green Float: the Anheuser-Busch Clydesdale horses, which featured people cleaning up after the horses as it meandered through the parade route.

- Best General Commercial Float: the Little Everglades Steeple Chase, which depicts the horse races held every March in Dade City.

- Best National Commercial Float: Southwest Airlines, which was the official sponsor of the Gasparilla Pirate Fest.

- Best Krewe Floats: a tie between the Grace O'Malley Krewe and the Nautilus Krewe.

- Best Association Float: the International Independent Showmen's Association, a nonprofit group of people in the outdoor amusement industry, which includes carnivals and fairs.

- Best Cities Float: St. Petersburg Festival of States.

More than 350,000 people lined up along Bay to Bay and Bayshore boulevards Saturday to watch the parade which started at 2 and ended at 5:30 p.m.

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