TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — The history of Tarpon Springs is rooted in immigrants who came to the area at the turn of the century from Greece. George Billiris belongs to one of those families who made ...

WE were bound out to the ‘dark water’ of the Mexico Bank in the little thirty-foot sponger Anna. We were after wool sponge, the golden fleece of the Gulf; and we were out for a two weeks’ catch.

Dodecanese Street announced the character of the Tarpon Springs waterfront at once, with a stucco structure plainly derived from memories of the Erechtheum. Caryatids were mercifully not attempted, ...

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (WFLA) — Tarpon Springs is known as the “Sponge Capital of the World,” where most of the world’s natural sponges come from. The industry began to grow in the 1890s when Greek ...

Bright over the Gulf of Mexico blazed the sun. A small white boat,one-masted, drifted into the tidy harbor of Tarpon Springs, Fla. On abeam reaching from the mast to the flagstaff astern, hung ...

Sponge boat operators who complained about paying $50 for improper docking probably won't have to pay up, city officials decided Tuesday. During a meeting of police, sponge divers and merchants, ...

Fishers forced off the water by the state's net ban soon may have another career choice: sponge diving. St. Petersburg Junior College expects to offer a sponge-diving course this summer for as many as ...

Danger and defying death has its own beauty for some people It is grand and courageous The Kalymnian sponge divers start when they are eighteen and devote their lives till they are thirtyfive to their ...