sponge diving

It's mascot is the Sponger, reflecting the town's history of sponge diving.

Sponge diving with all its traditions and history still forms the very soul of the people of this island.

Fishing and sponge diving are also important.

The deaths are the first in more than a decade linked to sponge diving that longtime divers here can recall.

Some researchers link this to the sponge diving tradition and way of life as both trades involve dangerous work with long periods away from home.

The Krapanj monastery museum permanently exhibits a show on sea sponge diving.

Tourism, fishing, sponge diving and apiculture are the main means of livelihood for its inhabitants.

See also sponge diving.

Sponge diving is the oldest known form of the original art of underwater diving, in order to retrieve natural sponges for human use.

After the abolition of slavery in the British Empire these became uneconomical, and the replacement income from sponge diving has now dwindled as well.

In 1905, John Cocoris introduced the technique of sponge diving to Tarpon Springs.

In 1905, he introduced sponge diving to the area and recruited Greek sponge divers from the Dodecanese Islands.

The 1953 film Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, depicting sponge diving, takes place and was filmed in Tarpon Springs.

Although isolated in an extremity of Lemnos, the village saw good economical development, mainly based on agriculture (cereals, cotton, livestock, honey), fishing and sponge diving.

George N. Cretekos (Sponge Diving Boat)

St. Nicholas VI (Sponge Diving Boat)

The economy has developed over time, starting with the use of natural resources in logging, mining, fishing, and sponge diving; as well as cattle ranching, farming, and citrus growing.

The St. Nicholas VI (Sponge Diving Boat) is a historic boat in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

The N. K. Symi (Sponge Diving Boat) (also known as the Eleni) is a historic site in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

The dance depicts the crippling effects of decompression sickness caused by sponge diving, which was the main source of income on Kalymnos during the last half of the 19th century.

Before the Civil War, when the town was one of the richest in the nation, the wealth was not based on stocks or banking, but shipwrecks (supplemented by sponge diving and later by cigar making).

It presents the maritime life of the people from Koutali before they fled from Propontis in 1922, through old photographs and artifacts, and tools and machinery related to sponge diving and processing.

Sponge diving has long been a common occupation on Kalymnos and sponges were the main source of income of Kalymnians, bringing wealth to the island and making it famous throughout the Mediterranean.

It is the fear of interlopers attracted by the boom and the confusion more than the deaths or the market fluctuations that most seem to trouble the old-timers, who view sponge diving not just as a living but as a way of life.

Mike and Tony Petrakis are Greek American father and son sponge diving entrepreneurs who find themselves in competition with the Rhys family, WASP fishermen who are prepared to resort to violence and even murder to maintain their established fishing grounds off the Gulf Coast of Florida.