Dedication To Sponge Divers Tarpon Springs Florida
by Jay Milo
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Dedication To Sponge Divers Tarpon Springs Florida
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Jay Milo
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Photograph - Photography
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Sponges are the skeletons of small sea creatures brought up by hand from the ocean bottom. In the late 1800s, spongers working the Florida Straights and Gulf of Mexico came from Cuba, The Bahamas or Key West. Using small boats, one man rowed while another man looked into the water with a glass-bottomed bucket. When a sponge was spotted he'd hook it with a long pole.
John K. Cheney built a warehouse in Tarpon Springs to handle sponges bound for New York then hired Greek divers and a buyer, John Cocoris. A brass plaque at the Sponge Exchange on Dodecanese Boulevard honors Cocoris, who came from Leonidion, Greece, as the founder of the sponging industry in Tarpon Springs.
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October 21st, 2015
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